Io[annis] Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI
Subtitle: Selectarum item ex India epistolarum eodem interprete libri IIII. Accessit Ignatij Loiolae vita postremo recognita. Et in opera singula copiosus index
Publisher: Apud Damianum Zenarium.
Published: 1589
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Missions; Christian martyrs; History; Discovery and exploration; Jesuits
Other titles: Ioannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Iesu Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI.; Jo[annis] Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Jesu Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI.; Joannis Petri Maffeii Bergomatis e Societate Jesu Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI.; Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI.
Work titles: Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI
Notes: First published in Florence, 1588.

"Selectarum epistolarum ex India libri quatuor. Ioanne Petro Maffeio interprete", leaves [1]-211, 4th count, has separate dated title page with imprint: Venetiis: Ex officina Damiani Zenarij, M.D.LXXXVIII.

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

Signatures: a-g⁴ A-2M⁸ 2N⁴ ²a-2c⁸ (²a1 verso blank) 2d⁴(-2d4)

Numerous errors in foliation.

Errata: leaf [28] verso.

Printer's device on title page.

Streit, R. Biblioteca missionum, IV:1045.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, V: col. 298.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, 1:318.

European Americana, 588/58.

European Americana, 589/41.

Purchase; 1918; 11331a.