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Ioan. Petri Maffeij, Bergomatis, e Societate Iesu, Historiarum indicarum libri XVI : selectarum, item, ex India epistolarum libri IV : accessit liber recentiorum epistolarum, à Ioanne Hato Dalgattiensi Scoto ex eadem Societate nunc primùm excusus, cum Indice accuratio : duobus tomis distributi / omnia ab auctore recognita & emendata ; in singula copiosus index.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1536?-1603.
- Standardized Title:
- Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- India--History--European settlements, 1500-1765.
- India.
- Portugal--History--Period of discoveries, 1385-1580.
- Portugal.
- America--Discovery and exploration.
- America.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Jesuits--Missions.
- Jesuits.
- Missions.
- Jesuits. Correspondence from the East.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Lucernas, Nicolas Fortmann, 1608 (inscription)
- Monasterium Rhenoviensis, 1609 (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- rii- 54o- erer hoac (3)
- Place of Publication:
- Antuerpiae : Ex officina Martini Nutij ..., Anno MDCV [1605]
- Notes:
- Printer's device on title page with motto: Pietas homini tutissima virtus.
- Signatures: v. 1: *-4*⁸ 5*⁴ A-2G⁸ a-2b⁸ 2c⁴ ; v. 2: 2A-2Z⁸, ²2A-3R⁸ 3S⁴ 3T².
- In v. 2, leaf 3S4 is blank.
- Pagination: v. 1: [72], 478, [2], 401, [7] p.; v. 2: 968, [52] p.
- Numerous errors in pagination.
- Contains dedications to King Felipe II and Cardinal Otto Truchsess von Waldburg.
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy has the bookplate of Henry Charles Lea on front pastedown and his autograph, dated 1876, on front free end paper.
- Lea Library copy has two inscriptions on title leaf: "Sum Nicolai Fortmanni Lucernatis: 1608." (effaced), and "Sum Monasterij Rhenoviam: 1609."
- Penn Libraries copy bound with: Maffei, Giovanni Pietro. Ignatij Loiolae vita. Antuerpiae : Ex officina Martini Nutij ..., MDCV [1605].
- The title with which this work is bound has been incorrectly inserted in the middle of this text.
- Cited in:
- Brown Univ. JCB Library catalogue, 2:32
- Sabin 43773
- Backer. Compagnie de Jesus, 5:298
- Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, 5:59
- Contains:
- Selectarum epistolarum ex India libri quatuor.
- OCLC:
- 37732216
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