00000cam a22000007i 4500 on1396792355 OCoLC 20250919195028.0 230912s1569 be 000 0 lat d QGJ eng rda dcrmr QGJ QGJ OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCL OCLCQ OCLCL OCLCO (OCoLC)1396792355 Jesuits. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QQPVp7PRbWtKjHVYjdXfWvR Epistolae Iapanicae : de multorum gentilium in varijs Insulis ad Christi fidem per Societatis nominis Iesu Theologos conuersione. / In quibus etiam mores, leges, locorúmque situs, luculenter describuntur. Epistolae Iapanicae de mvltorvm gentilium in varijs Insulis ad Christi fidem per Societatis nominis Iesu Theologos conuersione Epistolae Japanicae Lovanii, : Apud Rutgerum Velpium, Sub Castro Angelico., 1569. 2 parts ; 17 cm (8o) text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 8vo rdabf Pagination: Part 1: [32], 263, [1] pages; Part 2: 310, [2] pages Signatures: Part 1: 1-2⁸ B-R⁸ S⁴; Part 2: A⁸ b-t⁸ v⁴. Title page of part 1 contained within an ornamental border. Title page of part 2 has woodcut printer's device. Statement on title page of part 1, preceding date: "Cum priuilegio regio ad 4. annos." Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; woodcut initials; printed marginlia. Main text printed in italic type throughout. Unnumbered pages: Part 1: title page leaf, twenty-three pages of dedication to Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria (1548-1626), signed by Hannard van Gameren, and a six-page excerpt from a letter from Francis Xavier, Superior of the province of India. Woodcut printer's device on page following page 263. Part 2: one-page errata list and printer's device on last page at end of the volume. Part 2 has separate title page with sub-title "De multoruum gentilium ad Christi fidem conuersione per Societatis Iesu Theologos" and starts new pagination sequence and register. Part 2 contains dedication to Gérard d'Hamericourt, Bishop of St. Omer, by Hannard van Gameren. (pages 3-11). Includes letters from Japan, India, Maluku Islands and Brazil. This is a different issue from the one described by Streit, with variations in the preliminaries in part 1. On the last unnumbered preliminary page, the signature of "Franciscus Xauierius" is followed by a woodcut tail-piece, and the numbered sequence begins on the following page. In the issue described by Streit, a further letter by Xavier, dated 1549 and without pagination, begins immediately following Xavier's signature, and continues for 28 pages, so that there are sixty unnumbered preliminary pages in total. Cockx-Indestege, E. Belgica typographica, 1541-1600, 1018 Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, IV, 927/937 (cf.) Adams, H.M. Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries, I 97 (cf.) Jesuits Missions Early works to 1800. Jesuits Missions Asia Early works to 1800. Jesuits Missions India Early works to 1800. Jesuits Missions Brazil Early works to 1800. Jesuits Missions Japan Early works to 1800. Jesuits Missions Indonesia Maluku Early works to 1800. Jesuits fast Missions fast Asia fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxMpyjKQ9Jtm3jkjPBgKd Brazil fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRB9KGtqfkFTFbfB77QY Japan fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq Early works fast Velpius, Rutger, active 1565-1614, printer. prt https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJt3XGBG7rrP7bdkTc9VYP Gameren, Hannard van, -approximately 1580, dedicator. dto https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjB4YVYgWCcQpprRv48grq Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria, 1548-1626, dedicatee. dte https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJpjdjj4JxtCtw7gPXYgKd Haméricourt, Gérard de, 1504-1577, dedicatee. dte Philip III, King of Spain, 1578-1621, censor. cns https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtmvJ3MmH7Qg3HY4q7j4q Epistolae Moluccenses Epistolae Brasilicae Epistolae Asiaticae Belgium Louvain, publication place. pup