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PART III: I Cappuccini marchigiani. - Reports. pp. VII-366, Rome 1953.
Lit. 4.000
PART IV: I Cappuccini marchigiani. — The diary of P. Cassiano da Macerata; apologetical tracts and excerpts from Tibetan texts; Latin, Tibetan and Nepalese documents; appendix I (Tibetan and Nepalese Coins in the 18th cent.); appendix II (Samuel van de Putte and his two journeys through Tibet). pp. X-284 with 4 plates, Rome 1953.
Lit. 4.000
PART V: Ippolito Desideri, s.l. - Introduction; letters (1713-1722); selected passages from the «Difese »>; Book I of the << Relazione ». pp. XXXVI-251, Rome 1954.
Lit. 4.000 PART VI: Ippolito Desideri, S.l. – Books II and III of the « Relazione ». pp. X-353, Rome 1955.
Lit. 4.000
PART VII: Ippolito Desideri, S.I. – Book IV of the << Relazione »; Appendix I (« Breve ragguaglio >> and < Aggiunta di una ricapitolazione »); Appendix II (Desideri's missionary manual); Appendix III (The report of Freyre); Addenda; General Index of the seven parts; Tibetan index. pp. VII-317, Rome 1956. Lit. 4.000
III - Il libro dei conti di Giacomo Badoer (Costantinopoli 1436–1440), edi
ted by Umberto DORINI and Tommaso BERTELÈ. pp. XVI-866 with 5 plates. Rome 1956.
Lit. 10.000
A complete transcription of a great ledger, with double-entry bookkeeping, preserved in the State Archives of Venice, the only ledger entirely written in Constantinople in Byzantine times, which has come down to us. Compiled by the Venetian merchant and patrician Giacomo Badoer in the course of his stay of more than three years in the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire — then nearing its end - this book is a document of exceptional significance and lasting interest for the economic history of the East in the first half of the 15th century. A second volume is forthcoming, containing the commentary and the Indexes.
IV - Viaggi di C. Federici e G. Balbi alle Indie Orientali, edited by Olga
PINTO. pp. XLIV-438. Rome 1962.
Lit. 14.000
The travel accounts of the merchant Cesare Federici (1563-1581) and of the jeweller Gaspare Balbi (1578-1588) in Iraq, India and Burma are published from the editiones principes of 1587 and 1590. The detailed annotation, to which several scholars of international standing have collaborated with the chief editor,
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