Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, in Europa, Africa, Asia, et America, contra gentiles, Mahometanos, Judaeos, Haereticos, impios, pro Deo, fide, ecclesia, pietate
Subtitle: Sive Vita, et mors eorum, qui ex Societate Jesu in causa fidei, & virtutis propugnatae, violentâ morte toto orbe sublati sunt
By: Auctore R. Patre Mathia Tanner è Societate Jesu, SS. theologiae doctore
Publisher: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem.
Published: 1675
Place of publication: Pragae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 548
Subjects: Biography; Missions; Christian martyrs; Jesuits
Other titles: Vita, et mors eorum, qui ex Societate Jesu in causa fidei, & virtutis propugnatae, violentâ morte toto orbe sublati sunt.; Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem pro Deo, et Christiana religione militans, in omnib[us] mundi partibus fortitudinis suae trophaea erigit.
Notes: Fully engraved, added title page reads: Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem pro Deo, et Christiana religione militans, in omnib[us] mundi partibus fortitudinis suae trophaea erigit.

Each section (Europe, Africa, Asia, and America) has its own fully engraved title page. Includes numerous engravings of martydoms, either by torture, burning, beheading, drowning, stabbing, or burying the Jestuit martyrs.

"Societas Iesu inter America persecutiones in pretiosum Adamantem annuli Dei dura", p. [433]-548, has fully engraved divisional title page, and includes biographies of Jesuit martyrs in Brazil, Florida, New Spain, Peru, Paraguay, and New France.

Signatures: pi² (pi1, pi2 versos blank) )o(² A-4A⁴ (B1 verso blank) 4B² (-4B2)

Errata: p. [4], 3rd count.

Text printed in two parallel columns.

Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.

Streit, R. Bib. missionum, I:652.

Backer-Sommervogel VII: col. 1860.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bib. Brasiliana (1983 ed.), II: p. 845.

JCB Lib. cat., 1675-1700, p. 14.

Alden, J.E. European Americana, 675/164.