Ioan[nis] Petri Maffeii, Bergomatis, e Societate Iesu, Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI
Subtitle: Selectarum, item, ex Jndia epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita
By: Omnia ab auctore recognita, & nunc primùm in Germania excusa. Item, in singula opera copiosus index. His nunc recèns adiecta est charta geographica, ære nitidissimè expressa, qua lectori vtriusq[ue] Indiae situs, & longinqua ad eas nauigatio, accuratè ob oculos spectanda proponitur, non minus adspectu, quàm historia ipsa lectu iucunda
Publisher: In officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij.
Published: 1593
Place of publication: Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 541
Subjects: Missions; Christian martyrs; History; Discovery and exploration; Jesuits
Other titles: Ioannis 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.

Includes "Selectarum epistolarum ex India libri quatuor. Ioanne Petro Maffeio interprete"

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

Signatures: pi² (pi1 verso blank) A-2D⁶ 2E⁴ 2F-2Y⁶ 2Z-3C⁴ 3D⁶ (2Z4 blank, 3D6 verso blank)

Errors in paging: p. 268, 343, and 468 misnumbered 286, 334, and 578 respectively.

Jesuit trigram device on title page has motto: Nomen Domini turris fortissima.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, IV:1070.

Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus, V: col. 295.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), II: p. 10.

Palau y Dulcet, A. Manual del librero hispano-americano (2. ed.), 146981.

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, books printed 1675-1700, 1:329.

European Americana, 593/38.

Purchase; before 1866; 03686.