De origine seraphicae religionis Fra[n]ciscanae eiusq[ue] progressibus
Subtitle: de Regularis Obserua[n]ciae institutione, forma administrationis ac legibus admirabiliq[ue] eius propagatione
By: F. Francisci Gonzagae, eiusdem religionis ministri g[e]n[er]alis. Ad S. D. N. Sixtum V. opus in quatuor partes diuisium. Earum quid unaquaeque contineat sequens pagina indicabit..
Publisher: Ex Typographia Dominici Basae
Published: 1587
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 1363
Subjects: History; Missions; Church history; Franciscans
Other titles: De origine seraphicae religionis Franciscanae eiusque progressibus; De origine seraphicae religionis Franciscanae eiusque progressibus.
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

"Tertia hvivs operis pars omnes prouincias, omnesqve tvm fratrvm, tum quoque sororum vltraontanae familiae conuentus complectens, exceptis his quae in partibus Indiarum continentur", pages 1-549, has separate title page printed within ornamental border and printer's ornament. It contains the progress of the Franciscan order, divided into, first, the provinces of Europe, and secondly, the missionary activity of the Franciscans throughout the world

"Qvarta hvivs operis pars omnes prouincias, omnesqve tvm fratrvm tun quoque sororum conuentus Indiarm complectens", pages 1187-1363, has separate caption title. It includes a detailed narrative of the order in the New World, including Guatamala, Nicaragua, the Yucatan, Quito, Lima, Chile, and Brazil, as well as the Phillippines, and India.

Signatures: [dagger]⁴ [A]-2Y⁶ 2Z⁴ 3A-5Z⁶ (5F3 missigned Effff) 6A⁴.

Errata: page [21], 3rd count.

Includes indexes.

Fully engraved title page and 104 full-page plate engravings included in pagination; head and tail pieces; initials.

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, I:163

Leclerc, C. Bibliotheca Americana, 263

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: pages 306-307

Viñaza, C.M. y M. Bibliografía española de lenguas indígenas de América, 21

Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, G861

Bibliotheca Americana: catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, I, page 310

European Americana, 587/20

Purchase; 1855; 01748.

Purchase; before 1874; 07107.