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Kurtze Verzeichnuss und historische Beschreibung deren dingen/ so von der Societet Iesu in Orient von dem Jar nach Christi Geburt 1542 bis auff das 1568 gehandelt Worden.

by Acosta, Manuel and Maffei, Giovanni Pietro:

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Ingolstadt, David Sartorium 1586. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo. (6 2/8 x 3 6/8 inches). Title-page printed in red and black, (14), 191 pp., 524, (1) pp. (some marginal and persistant worming to early gatherings). Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, brass catches, remnants of clasps (a bit rubbed). Selten! – Erste deutsche Ausgabe. 2 Teile in 1 Band. Teil 1 mit 191 Seiten Umfang trägt auch die Seitenüberschrift: „Bericht von Bekehrung der Indianer im Orient.“ Allerdings werden nicht nur religiöse Themen angeschnitten, sondern Städte und Länder, sowie deren Menschen und Gebräuche beschrieben. Berichte gibt es zu Äthiopien, Amboinum (bei Malacca), Bazainum, Cochinum, Commorinu, Coulanum (Indien), Damanum, Goa, Inhambanum (Ostafrika), Macazar, Malaca, Malucum, Manomotapa (Ostafrika), Mauri, Ormutziu (Hormuz), Socotora (Sokotra), Solor und Tanaa. Teil 2 mit 524 Seiten enthält detailreiche Berichte und Sendbriefe aus Japan. Die Autoren Cosmus Turrianus, Emmanuel Nobrega, Ferdinandus Mendozius, Franciscus Xaverius, Gaspas Belga, Henricus Henriquez, Ioannes de Beyra, Ioannes Ferdinandez, Paulus Iaponius, and Petrus Alcaceuas berichten über die Menschen und die Kultur in Japan. Die Missionare berichten auch über den Buddhismus und finden durchaus Parallelen zu christlichen Religion, wie Himmel und Hölle. Sie beschreiben die Gewohnheiten und Sitten der Völker, sowie über den Handel. First edition in German, first translated from the manuscript entitled 'Historia dos Missiones de Oriente ate o anno de 1568' by the Portuguese Jesuit historian, Manuel Acosta (1540-1604), who taught at Coimbra, then translated into Latin and augmented by Maffei (1533-1603) and published in 1571. This edition has been translated into German by Johann Georg Götze, and includes accounts of Jesuit Missions in Etheopia, the East Indies, Goa, but mainly Japan, by Cosmus Turrianus, Emmanuel Nobrega, Ferdinandus Mendozius, Franciscus Xaverius, Gaspas Belga, Henricus Henriquez, Ioannes de Beyra, Ioannes Ferdinandez, Paulus Iaponius, and Petrus Alcaceuas. Cordier Japonica 60; Sabin 43781. Provenance: contemporary ownerhip inscription on the title-page, and one or two marginal notes; presented to the Long Island Historical Society by J. Carson Brevoort, with their bookplate recording the bequest on the front paste-down; with the small library label of Wolfgang A. Herz, on the front paste-down, his sale Important Voyages and Travels, 9th December 2009, lot 140.

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Kurtze Verzeichnuss und historische Beschreibung deren dingen/ so von der Societet Iesu in Orient von dem Jar nach Christi Geburt 1542 bis auff das 1568 gehandelt Worden.
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Acosta, Manuel and Maffei, Giovanni Pietro:
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