Page updated/mise à jour le 13 mars 2025
1601
MABRIAN. Les proesses et vaillances du redouté Mabrian, roy de Ierusalem et de Inde la Maiour. Rouen: Rinsart, 1601
Google Books
There are a number of print editions of this book, from 1570 to 1625, listed in the British Library main catalogue. The URL is for
Les Provesses Et Vaillances du Redoute Mabrian, lequel fut Roy de Jerusalem, & de l’Inde, la Maiour, Troyes: Oudot, 1625, 226 pp.
There is no page numbering in the text. Inde is mentioned throughout the text, however no recognisable places are mentioned. It seems to be a work of fiction.
1602
FROES, L et PIMENTA, N. Relations des Pères Loys Froes et Nicolas Pimenta,… au R. P. Claude Aquaviva,… concernant l’accroissement de la foy chrestienne au Jappon et autres contrées des Indes Orientales ès années 1596 et 1599,… Lettres du Iappon de l’an 1596 escrites par le P. Loys Froes. Lettres du père Nicolas Pimante… datées de Goa le 21 décembre 1599. Lyon: Jean Pillehotte, 1602, 306pp.
Google Books
The book is in 2 parts. Part 1, 1 to 175pp, are letters from Luiz Froes about Japan and does not mention India. Part 2, 114pp, has a separate frontpiece (187p on Google) and page numbering and are the letters from Nicolas Pimante to Claude Aquinaviva from Goa, dated 21 December 1599. The letters are about the church in Inde and Pegu and mention Goa, Cochin, Zamorin, Bengal, Negapatan, Ganges, Siripur, Malabar, Coromandel and multiple other places.
PIMENTA, Nicolau. Les Miracles merveilleux advenus aux Indes Orientales. Au très-reverend P. Claude Aquaviva. Paris: Thierry et Foucault, 1603, 112 pp.
Gallica
This book is an annual letter from Nicolas Pimenta, visiteur de la province de l’Inde Orientale, dated décembre 1600. The author left Goa in December 1599 for Lahor and Cambaia to meet le Roy de Mogor. He returned on 1 December 1600. There are many references to Zamorin, Cochin, Bengala, Negapatan and Goa, as well as many other missions in Inde.
1604
MARTIN, François (de Vitré). Description d’un voyage faict aux Indes orientales par les François en l’an 1603. Paris: Sonnius, 1604, 134 pp.
Gallica
1605
DURET, Claude. Histoire admirable des plantes et herbes esmerveillables et miraculeuses en nature. Paris: Nicolas Buon, 1605, 367pp.
Google Books
Inde and places in Inde are mentioned in this book about plants, which has illustrations. There is one section devoted to “Figuier d’Inde”, 123p, and the section on “Des arbres appellez tristes”, 259-268p, notes that these trees are found in Goa and Malabar and includes other discussion.
1606
1607
1608
MAGALIANES, Diego de. Las conversion de trois grands rois infideles, de la secte Mahomet. Paris: le Feure, 1608, 16 pp.
Google Books
This seems to be a later version/copy of Nouueaux aduertissemens tres certains venus du paÿs des Indes Meridionales: Contenans la conversion de trois grans Roys infidelles, de la secte Mahommet, convertis et baptisez, avec tous leurs subjects: et suiuans à present nostre saincte Foy Chrestienne. Pour Jean Dallier libraire, Paris 1571.
The book is a chronicle of a voyage to a number of places: Manado, Isle de Saguine, Cauripe, Goa, Cocin, Margone, Porcada. Three Roys were baptised. The final sentence: Ecrit aux Indes en l’Isle de Madere le 17 jour d’Aout 1570.
1609
TRIGAULT, Nicolas. Lettre du R. P. Nicolas Trigaut…, de la Compagnie de Jésus, escrite à ceux de la mesme Compagnie qui sont en la province de Flandres, et Vallée de Goa, en Inde orientale, la veille de Noël de l’an 1607. À Bordeaus: S. Millanges, 1609, 92 pp.
Gallica
<1530-15391610-1619>