- Reference Code
maregaA25
- Title
Fonds Marega File A25
- Date Range
- Late 17th to early 20th century
- Primary Date Range
- 1699, 1780, 1916
- Date Range Notes
- 1699 (Genroku 12), 1780 (An'ei 9), 1916 (Taishō 5)
- Description Level
File
- Quantity
- 8 records (6 mass-published books, 2 tatechō)
- Provenance / Creation
- Father Mario Marega. Materials appear to have been purchased at antiquarian bookstores, etc.
- Place Name
- Place Names: Usuki City and Ōita City (Ōita Prefecture), Himon’ya (Meguro City, Tōkyō-to) Positions, etc.: Salesians of Don Bosco missionary.
- Archival History
- A25 is a small bulk of Marega materials already held by the Vatican Museums’ Library. As of 2018, it is being managed by the Vatican Library. While the circumstances and timing of the Museums coming to hold it is unclear, in 1938 Father Marega published “Memorie cristiane della regione di Oita,” a summary of the results of his survey in Oita of Christian-related materials, in the third issue of the Ethnological Museum’s organ Annali Lateranensi. He sent eight archival documents to the museum to be photographed and included in the article. Until the present time, researchers have failed in retrieving, or even detecting the aforementioned eight archival documents sent at this time are not part of A25.
- Scope and Content
Tatechō (2), Japanese-bound woodblock print books (such as regional geographies / chishi 地誌 and picture scrolls), and mass-published books. The tatechō are as follows: the 1699 (Genroku 12) Oshioki goningumi chō 御仕置五人組帳 (a form, includes part at end related to Honmagari Village in Ōita District / Nobeoka Domain territory) and a copy of fifteen Tokugawa Ieyasu-related articles from the fifth month of 1614 (Keichō 18) (holder: Tobaru Village’s Moto Uemon; Tobaru village [present-day Nakatsu City] was part of shogunate-administered territory). One also finds Miyakomeisho zue 都名所図会 (vols. 1-3, pub. 1780) and Mōkoshūrai ekotoba 蒙古襲来絵詞 (vols. 1-3, pub. 1916). Overviews (in Italian) by Marega of the woodblock print books and mass-published books are attached to them. One also finds Marega’s management numbers as well as many memos in Romanized Japanese and Italian.Holding Institution Name: Vatican’s Misionero Ethnological Museum (managed by the Vatican Library).
- Languages Used
- Japanese - 8, Italian - 5, Romanized Japanese - 5
- Date Description Written
- 2019/08/31
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