was sich in dem grossen / und nun je lenger je mehr bekandten Königreich China / in verkündigung dess H. Evangelii und fortfplantzung des Catholischen Glaubens / von 1604. und volgenden Jaren / denckwürdigs zugetragen. Auss Portugiesischen zu Lisabona gedruckten Exemplaren ins Teutsch gebracht [BOUND WITH:]
Indianische Newe Relation / Erster theil. Was sich in der Goanischen Provintz / und in der Mission Monomatapa / Mogor / auch in der Provintz Cochin / Malabaria / China / Pegu unnd Maluco / so wol in Geistlichen als Weltlichen Sachen / vom 1607. 1608. und folgenden zugetragen ⦠nochmals auss dem zu Lissbona getruckten Exemplaren ins Teutsch gebracht.
Chrysostom Dabertzhofer, Augsburg, 1611-14.
Missionary letters flowed into Europe at the beginning of the seventeenth century, where they were often published separately or as parts of larger compendia. The Portuguese Jesuits continued to dominate this channel of information.
'In Europe the Jesuits celebrated their victories in Asia with the publication around the turn of the century of a whole series of volumes lauding the life of Xavier and his achievements in the East. In Portugal the Jesuit Fernão Guerreiro (1550-1617), superior of the House of the Professed in Lisbon, compiled a five volume Relaçam based on letters received from the Jesuits in the overseas world, especially Asia. Published in 1603, 1605, 1607, 1609, and 1611, these volumes follow closely the Jesuit successes in India, China, Japan, and the East Indies. The first of Guerreiro's volumes was translated into Spanish by the Jesuit António Colaço (1568-1647) and published at Valladolid in 1604; its section on China was translated into German as Historischer Bericht ⦠(Augsburg, 1611). The final volume was translated into Spanish by Dr. Christoval Suárez de Figueroa and published at Madrid in 1613 or 1614, and a partial translation from Portuguese into German was published as Indianische newe Relation (Augsburg) in 1614. Both German translations were by Chrysostom Dabertzhofer' (Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe III, pp. 315-316).
Bound with are four further tracts, all printed in 1614, one an account of a colloquium on matters of faith between the Earl of Vademont and the Margrave of Baden, the second with two funeral orations on Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, the third a copy of a letter by Pfalzgrave Wolfgang Wilhelm relating to his conversion to Catholicism, the fourth another anti-Protestant publication.
First German editions, two works in one vol. (three further, unrelated works bound in at end), 4to, pp. [viii], 131; [vii], 111; the first work with title printed in red and black; fine copies in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps; from the Jesuit College, Fulda, with contemporary inscription on title.
'In Europe the Jesuits celebrated their victories in Asia with the publication around the turn of the century of a whole series of volumes lauding the life of Xavier and his achievements in the East. In Portugal the Jesuit Fernão Guerreiro (1550-1617), superior of the House of the Professed in Lisbon, compiled a five volume Relaçam based on letters received from the Jesuits in the overseas world, especially Asia. Published in 1603, 1605, 1607, 1609, and 1611, these volumes follow closely the Jesuit successes in India, China, Japan, and the East Indies. The first of Guerreiro's volumes was translated into Spanish by the Jesuit António Colaço (1568-1647) and published at Valladolid in 1604; its section on China was translated into German as Historischer Bericht ⦠(Augsburg, 1611). The final volume was translated into Spanish by Dr. Christoval Suárez de Figueroa and published at Madrid in 1613 or 1614, and a partial translation from Portuguese into German was published as Indianische newe Relation (Augsburg) in 1614. Both German translations were by Chrysostom Dabertzhofer' (Lach, Asia in the Making of Europe III, pp. 315-316).
Bound with are four further tracts, all printed in 1614, one an account of a colloquium on matters of faith between the Earl of Vademont and the Margrave of Baden, the second with two funeral orations on Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain, the third a copy of a letter by Pfalzgrave Wolfgang Wilhelm relating to his conversion to Catholicism, the fourth another anti-Protestant publication.
First German editions, two works in one vol. (three further, unrelated works bound in at end), 4to, pp. [viii], 131; [vii], 111; the first work with title printed in red and black; fine copies in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; two clasps; from the Jesuit College, Fulda, with contemporary inscription on title.
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