Ioan[nis] Petri Maffeii, Bergomatis, e Societate Iesu, Historiarum Indicarum libri XVI. : Selectarum, item, ex Jndia epistolarum, eodem interprete, libri IV. Accessit Ignatii Loiolae vita.

Maffei, Giovanni Pietro, 1536?-1603 · 1593 · Coloniae Agrippinae [Cologne], : In officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Arnoldi Mylij. · 12 pictures

Maffei's 1593 Latin history of Portuguese voyages and Jesuit missions in India, printed in Cologne by the Birckmann press for scholarly and clerical readers. The pictures are large decorative woodcut initial letters, each a single capital framed in dense interlaced scrollwork, which a designer could borrow for chapter openings, letterpress headers, or hand-lettered monograms.

Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556 · Azevedo, Inácio de, 1526-1570 · Jesuits -- Missions · Jesuits -- Missions -- Brazil · Christian martyrs -- Brazil · India -- History -- 1526-1765 · Portugal -- History -- Period of discoveries, 1385-1580 · America -- Discovery and exploration · Imprint 1593

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