Io. Petri Maffei 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
Contributors: Zenaro, Damiano, active 1577-1599, printer; Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud Damianum Zenarium
Published: 1589
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Missions; Discovery and exploration; Portuguese; History; Jesuits
Work titles: Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI
Notes: First published Florence, 1588.

Signatures: a-g⁴, A-2M⁸, 2N⁴, a-2c⁸, 2d⁴(-2d4).

Numerous errors in foliation; fol. 283 misnumbered 281.

"Selectarum epistolarum ex India libri quatuor" has separate t.p. dated 1588, 211 leaves at end.

Utilizes materials derived from Jesuit missions; contains accounts of Columbus, Vespucci, and Behaim, Inácio Azevedo and the Brazilian martyrs; also Jesuit accounts of contacts in Japan and China.

Backer-Sommervogel, V, col. 298

Sabin 43770

Provenance: Gift of Jay I. Kislak Foundation.