Ioan. Petri Maffeii, Bergomatis, e Societate Iesu, historiarum indicarum libri XVI. : Selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV. : Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita. / Omnia ab auctore recognita, & emendata. ; In singula copiosus index.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1536?-1603.

Contributor:

Jesuits.

Sydney S. Keil Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

History.

India--History--1500-1765.

India.

Portugal--History--Period of discoveries, 1385-1580.

Portugal.

America--Discovery and exploration.

America.

Discoveries in geography.

Jesuits--Missions.

Jesuits.

Missions.

Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556.

Ignatius.

Penn Provenance:

Keil, Jeffrey (donor)

Physical Description:

88 unnumbered pages, 763 pages, 5 unnumbered pages, 461 pages, 25 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Coloniae Agrippinae : In officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij., Anno M.D.XC. [1590]

Notes:

First published Florence, 1588.

Signatures: [dagger]-5[dagger]8 6[dagger]4 A-3B8 a-2g8 2h4(-2h4) ([dagger]1, 3B6, 2h2 versos blank, 3B7, 3B8 blank; Q4 missigned P4)

Numerous errors in pagination. "Selectarum epistolarum ex India libri quatuor" has separate pagination.

Printer's device on title page with motto: Utilia semper nova saepius profero.

Utilizes materials derived from Jesuit missions including accounts of Inácio Azevedo and the Brazilian martyrs.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: Selectarum, item. ex India epistolarum libri IV and vita of St. Ignatius (461, [25] p.) wanting.

Index: p. [5]-[88] (1st count) bound in after p. [5] (3rd count).

Cited in:

Brown Univ. JCB Library catalogue, 1:323.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 590/42.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, 4:1059.

Related Work:

Jesuits. Correspondence from the East. Selections.

Contains:

Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1536?-1603. Selectarum epistolarum ex India libri quatuor.

OCLC:

62441460