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Epistolae Iapanicae, de multorum gentilium in varijs insulis ad Christi fidem per Societatis nominis Iesu theologos conuersione : in quibus etiam mores, leges, locorúmque situs, luculenter describuntur.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jesuits.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Jesuits--Missions--Japan--Early works to 1800.
- Jesuits.
- Jesuits--Missions--India--Early works to 1800.
- Jesuits--Missions--Brazil--Early works to 1800.
- Missions.
- Brazil.
- India.
- Japan.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)
- Bibliothec. P.R. Stuttg. (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 60 unnumbered pages, 263 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 310 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 16 cm (8vo)
- Fingerprint:
- rei- o-s. e-b- vign (3) 1569 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Louanij : Apud Rutgerum Velpium ..., 1569.
- Notes:
- Includes letters from Japan, India, and Brazil.
- "Pars altera" has special title page and separate pagination and signatures.
- Signatures: 1-3⁸ A-R⁸ S⁴ [superscript chi]A⁸ b-t⁸ v⁴.
- Dedicated by Hannard van Gameren to Wilhelm, Elector Palatine and Bishop Gérard de Hamericourt.
- Errata on leaf v4v.
- Local Notes:
- Lea Library copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on inside pastedown and autograph dated 1875 on front free endpaper.
- Lea Library copy title page has inscription; library stamp of "Bibliothec. P.R. Stuttg."; additional illegible library stamp.
- Lea Library copy has a few marginal ms. markings and corrections in pen.
- Cited in:
- Streit, R. Bib. missionum, 4:937
- OCLC:
- 36899812
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