De rebus Iaponicis historica relatio
Subtitle: eaque triplex ...
By: a R.P. Ludouico Frois Societatis Iesu, ad R.P. Claudium Aquauiuam, eiusdem Societatis Praepositum Generalem missa; et ex italico idiomate Moguntiae in Latinam linguam translata
Contributors: Acquaviva, Claudio, 1543-1615; Buys, Jan, 1547-1611
Publisher: Ex officina Typographica Ioannis Albini
Published: 1599
Place of publication: Moguntiae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Missions; Early works to 1800; Correspondence; Jesuits
Notes: Translated by Jan Buys from the Italian version of the Portuguese originals.

Pt. 1 is his letter from Japan for Mar. 15, 1597. Cf. Streit, v. 4, 1854; Pt. 2 has separate t.p. and is dated at end: Nangasacho, 28. Decemb. Anni 1596; Pt. 3 has separate t.p. and is dated at end: Ex portu Nangasachano. 13. Decembr. Anno 1596.

Signatures: A-V⁸ X².

Jesuit device: cross enclosed by motto ("Effigies, Crucis, Iaponicae").

Streit v. 4, no. 1897
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) I. De gloriosamorte 26. crucifixorum.; title: II. De Legatione Regis Chinensium ad Regem Iaponiae & de Prodigijs legationem antegressis.; title: III. De rebus per Iaponiam anno 1596. a PP. Soc. Iesu durante persecutione gestis.