Jesuit letters--[Froes, Luis et al.]

8vo (163 x 100mm.), woodcut device on title and last leaf, woodcut initials and headpieces, later vellum, title remargined at foot

Censimento 16 CNCE 27630; cf. Cordier, Japonica 79; Löwendahl 16

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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The letters of Froes are primary sources for the upheavals of Japanese society in the early 1580s, as the warlord Oda Nobunaga, who showed favour to the Jesuits against the Buddhists, rose to dominant power and then was overthrown and killed in 1582. As supplement there are eight briefer letters from Jesuit missionaries in Macao and China, including Matteo Ricci.

Editions of this work were also published in Rome and Milan in the same year.