15. Earliest Jesuit Printing in Indi 
From the Spanish of the Rev. Cecilio Gomez Redetea; S.J. 
Translated by the Rev. L. Carpon, S.J., and edited by the 
Rev. H. Hosten, S. 
The present article is a translation from the Spanish of 
part of Imprentas / de los Antiguos Jesuitas / en las / Misiones 
de Levante / durante los siglos XVI al XVIII / Datos Aig jocoued 
por el P. Cecilio Gomez Rodeles / de la Compania de Jesiis,'/ pp. 
4-17. The complete reprint of Fr. C. Gomez Rodeles’ articles 
comprises pp. 56; for he retraces the origin and development 
of Jesuit printing, not only in India, but in Macao, Japan, China 
and Indo-China. To us here the chapter on Jesuit printing in 
ths commends itself as the most interesting. 
lock-printing, a Chinese invention, was known and 
at 16, however, a well acknowledged fact that the Jesuits 
were the pioneers in India of the European process of printing 
with movable type; but, whereas it was generally supposed 
that Jesuit printing began i in 1577 under Bro. John keg 
guese. This early introduction of printing into India reflects 
more backward. The printing-press of the Danish Missionaries 
of Tranquebar was the first after those of the Jesuits (1712). 
Rachol, Cochin, Ambalacata, Angamale and Cranganore. 
certain number of the books printed were in Portuguese. Fr. 
nt ( Articulos viblinalldl en la Secogtel = y Fe) + algo! Edicién. | 
Madrid / Establecimento tip. ‘‘ Sucesores de Rit pre din »? | Impresores 
de la — Casa | Paseo de —— eiapee non: 80: / 1912. |] 
Cc RA Sen, Hist. of Bengal lang. and literat., 
Caloutta, 1911, p. 849. 
f. East ani West, March 1902, p. 550, quoting Dr. Busteed’s 
Echoes — res ‘alcutta 
oO presses esses must have been the same as that of Vaipicota, 
which was piceenan: shifted. 
