Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans, in Europa, Africa, Asia, et America, contra gentiles, Mahometanos, Judaeos, Haereticos, impios, pro Deo, fide, ecclesia, pietate. : Sive Vita, et mors eorum, qui ex Societate Jesu in causa fidei, & virtutis propugnatae, violentâ morte toto orbe sublati sunt. /

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Main Author: Tanner, Mathias, 1630-1692
Other Authors: Hampel, Jan Mikulás, active 1677-1693 (Printer), Küsel, Melchior, 1626-1683 (Engraver), Škréta, Karel, 1610-1674 (Illustrator)
Format: Book
Language:Latin
Created: Pragae, : Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem, per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem., anno MDCLXXV. [1675].
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Item Description:Bound in contemporary pigskin with blind toolind and metal clasps. Edges painted in red.
Fully engraved, added title page reads: Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem pro Deo, et Christiana religione militans, in omnib[us] mundi partibus fortitudinis suae trophaea erigit.
Each section (Europe, Africa, Asia, and America) has its own fully engraved title page. Includes numerous engravings of martydoms, either by torture, burning, beheading, drowning, stabbing, or burying the Jestuit martyrs.
"Societas Iesu inter America persecutiones in pretiosum Adamantem annuli Dei dura", p. [433]-548, has fully engraved divisional title page, and includes biographies of Jesuit martyrs in Brazil, Florida, New Spain, Peru, Paraguay, and New France.
Signatures: pi²)o(² A-4A⁴ 4B²( -4B2) (pi1, pi2 and 4B1 versos blank).
Added engraved title page; the illustrations engraved by Melchior Küsell after designs of C. Screta.
Text printed in two parallel columns.
Signatures: pi² (o)² A-3A⁴ 3B²( -3B2).
Woodcut head- and tail-pieces; initials.
Errata: p. [4], 3rd count, i.e. 4B1 verso.
Includes index.
Text printed in two parallel columns.
Physical Description:[18], 548, [4] p. : ill., ports. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Bibliography:Includes index-4A4 recto to 4B1 recto.
Place of Publication:Czech Republic -- Prague.