Progressus fidei Catholicae in Nouo Orbe
Subtitle: I. In Canada, siue Noua Francia. II. In Cochinchina. III. In magno Chinensi regno
By: de quo R.P. Nicolaus Trigautius Societ. Iesu libris V, copiosè & accuratè scripsit. Multa lectu jucunda, & admiranda; multa etiam imitanda Christianæ virtutis exempla, Catholicis omnibus Europæis proponuntur. Excerpta sunt ex recentibus annuis litteris Societatis Iesu, ex Nouo Orbe missis, & typis in Francia, Belgioq[ue] recenter editis
Contributors: Ragueneau, Paul, 1608-1680; Trigault, Nicolas, 1577-1628
Publisher: apud Joannem Kinchium sub Monocerote veteri.
Published: 1653
Place of publication: Coloniæ Agrippinæ
Language: lat
Number of pages: 60
Subjects: Jesuits; Missions
Work titles: Correspondence
Notes: A collection, in Latin, of extracts from four works, previously published separately, three of them in French and one in Latin.

Some sources assign authorship of collection to Nicholas Trigault; however, Trigault was only responsible for the translation into Latin of Ricci's work which is partially excerpted in the third section of the present collection.

Signatures: A-D⁸ (-D8; D7 verso blank)

Page 41 misnumb.: "44"; p. 44-45 misnumb.: "42-43"

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675, 2:434.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 653/62.

Streit, R.  Bib. missionum, 2:2587.

Thwaites, R.G.  The Jesuit relations and allied documents, 14:283-284; 34: 241-242.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Progressus rei Catholicæ in Canada, siue Noua Francia, grauisq[ue] persecutio, in quà plures nouelli Catholici, tresq[ue] patres Societatis Iesu illorum pastores, pro fide orthodoxa crudeliter à barbaris occisi sunt anno 1648 & 1649. Excerpta ex Relatione P. Pauli Ragueneau Societ. Iesu, impressa Parisijs (p. 3-34; extract, in Latin, from: Relation de ce qui s'est passé en la mission des peres de la Compagnie de Iesus aux Hurons pays de la Nouuelle France, és années 1648 & 1649 / Paul Ragueneau. Paris, 1650).; title: Progressus fidei Catholicæ in Cochinchina, suscitatæque ac compositæ ibi persecutiones. Ex narratione P. Metelli Saccano Soc. Iesu missionarii ibidem: Impressa in Francîa Gallicè; ex quibus haæ præcipuè decerpta sunt (p. 34-49; extract, in Latin, from: Relation des progrez de la foy au royaume de la Cochinchine és années 1646 et 1647 / Metello Saccano. Paris, 1653).; title: Progressus rei Catholicæ in magno Chinensi regno, illique vicinis: Præcipue conversio filij regis Chinarum, aliarumque principalium personarum. Item De legatione R.P. Michaelis Bouyn Societ. Iesu sacerdotus ad Suam Sanctitatem Romam ablegati. Deque magna spe conuersionis Tartarorum, & regni Tunquin. Translata recenter ex Gallico insulis impresso (p. 49-60; extract from: De Christiana expeditione apud Sinas suscepta ab Societate Iesu. Ex P. Matthæi Ricij eiusdem societatis Com[m]entarijs libri V / Matteo Ricci. Augsburg, 1615; this Latin version.; title: was translated by Nicolas Trigault from a manuscript in Italian; also extract, in Latin, from: La grande nouvelle de la conversion du jeune roy de la Chine et de l'ambassade du Père Michel Bouyn Jesuite polonnois / Michel Boym. Liége, 1653)