Fascicvlvs e Iapponicis floribvs, svo adhvc madentibvs sangvine
By: compositvs a P. Antonio Francisco Cardim è Societate Iesv ...
Contributors: Miotte, P., engraver.; Collegium Parmensis,; Bibliothèque Adrien Carrère,; Bibliothèque des Fontaines.
Publisher: Typis heredum Corbelletti
Published: 1646
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Jesuits -- Japan.; Jesuits -- Biograghy.; Christian martyrs -- Japan.
Other titles: Fasciculus e Iapponicis floribus, suo adhuc madentibus sanguine; Elogia occisorum in odium fidei, è societate Iesu; Martyres Iaponiae
Notes: Collation: 4to: [maltese cross]⁴ [maltese cross]A-[maltese cross]Ii⁴; [$2 (-[maltese cross]1, [maltese cross]V1, [maltese cross]V2) signed (missigning [maltese cross]V3 as [maltese cross]V1, [maltese cross]V4 as [maltese cross]V2)]; 132 leaves: p. [8], 1-65 [blank], 65-206, 205-252 (misprinting 18-19 as 22-23, 22-23 as 18-19, 92-93 as 96-97, 151-154 as 155-158, 155-158 as 151-154, 221 as 121, 223 as 123).

Numbers 65-66, 205-206 repeated in pagination.

Map: unfolded: 28 x 41 cm.; folded: 14 x 10.5 cm.: "Iapponiae nova & accurata descriptio per R.P. Antonium Franciscum Cardim Societatis Jesu ad Elogia Iapponica."

"The map ... gives the locations of the Jesuit establishments and was the first European map of Japan to show the country divided into all 66 of its provinces" -- Quaritch, Society of Jesus (1996), no. 33.

Errata on p. [4]

Catchwords on every page.

Jesuit device on t.p.; initials; head- and tail-pieces.

"Prouinciae Iapponiae ad Urbem procuratore. Qvi legitis flores, hos legite, sic qvoniam positi svaves miscentur odores. ... Svperiorvm permissv."

Portrait of St. Francis Xavier signed: P. Miotte fecit.

Burns Library copy: paper board binding; spine: covered in gilt-tooled calf; binder's label: "Martyres Iaponiae"; printed paper label: "Bibliothèque Ad[ri]en Carrère."

With: Catalogvs regvlarivm, et secvlarivm, qui in Iapponiae regnis vsque à fundata ibi a S. Francisco Xaverio ... ab ethnicis in odium Christianae fidei sub quatuor tyrannis violenta morte sublati sunt. / Collectus a P. Antonio Francisco Cardim. Romae : typis heredum Corbelletti, 1646. -- Mors felicissima qvatvor legatorvm Lvsitanorvm et sociorvm quos Iapponiae imperator occidit in odium Christianae religionis. / Auctore P. Antonio Francisco Cardim. Romae : typis heredum Corbelletti, 1646.

Backer-Sommervogel, II, 740

Brunet, I, 1574

Silva, I, 143-144

Streit: Bibliotheca missionum, V, 1561-1563

Cortazzi, p. 44 & pl. 64

Walter, 30

Bibliothèque des Fontaines; Chantilly (France); purchase

Burns Library copy: in manuscript on t.p.: "Collegii Parmensis Societ[at]is Jesu."

Burns Library copy: label on spine: "Bibliothèque Ad[ri]en Carrère."

The mis-signings in [maltese cross]V are corrected by hand.

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