- Reference Code
maregaA18
- Title
Fonds Marega File A18
- Primary Date Range
- 1786, 1787, 1803
- Date Range Notes
- 1786, 1787 (Tenmei 6, 7), 1803 (Kyōwa 3)
- Description Level
File
- Quantity
- 25 records (15 published books, 4 postcards, 2 cards, 2 strips of paper, 1 newspaper, 1 hōshi 包紙)
- Notes on Physical State
- Stored inside of Vatican Library’s preservation bag for management purposes. Comprised of three groups: (a) five books wrapped in the English-language newspaper The Register (08/13/1950), (b) six books wrapped in plain hōshi[包紙], and (c) four books not grouped together. These groups of books were tied together with cotton preservation tape. A strip of paper with “A18” written on it was attached. Additionally, (b) includes some postcards included from shrines and the like.
- Provenance / Creation
- Father Mario Marega.
- Biographical History
- Same as fonds.
- Place Name
- Usuki City and Ōita City, Ōita Prefecture; Himon’ya, Meguro City, Tōkyō-to
- Positions, etc
- Salesians of Don Bosco missionary
- Archival History
- Donated to the Vatican by Mario Marega in 1953.
- Acquisition Source
- Same as fonds.
- Scope and Content
All are Japanese-bound regional geographies (chishi 地誌): (a) Shūi miyako meisho zue 拾遺都名所図会 (Gleanings Guidebook to Famous Sites in the Capital), (b) Miyako meisho zue 都名所図会 (Guidebook to Famous Sites in the Capital), and (c) Nijū yo hai jun pai zue 二十四輩順拝図会 (Guidebook to Shin Sect Temples). Their dates of publication are as follows: (a) 1787 (Tenmei 7), (b) 1780 (An’ei 9), (c) first volume - 1803 (Kyōwa 3), second volume - 1809 (Bunka 6).
- Languages Used
- Japanese, Italian, English (newspaper)
- Date Description Written
- 2018/11/14
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