Manuale ad Sacramenta Ecclesiæ ministranda D. Ludouici Cerqueira Iaponensis Episcopi opera ad vsum sui cleri ordinatum n Collegio Iaponico Societatis Iesu: Nangasaquij, 1605.

Three digital editions available: ARSI, Indiana University Library [Tōkyō Yūshōdō Shuppan 2006 facsimile] , Bibliotheque de Toulouse}.
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ARSI Japonica-Sinica I, 207

Manuale │  ad Sacramenta Ecclesiae
Ministranda  │  D. Ludovici Cerqueira
Japonensis Episcopi  │  opera ad usum
sui cleri ordinatum │  Cum
Approbatione, Et Facultate. │ 
Nangasaquij，│  In Collegio Iaponico
Societatis Iesu Anno Domini M.DCV. I 4֯ , 9 ff nc, 414 pp., 2 ff nc.
Black leather cover, bound in one;
volume, European style.

The frontispiece bears the emblem of the Society of Jesus in red color. This book is a ritual in Latin specially adapted to the needs of the Japanese church in accordance with the Rituale Romanum and edited by Bishop Luis de Cerqueira.
One special feature of the present volume is the fact that it is the first and, as far as we know, the only two-color printing (black and red) produced by the Jesuit mission press. It is, moreover, by far the earliest two-color printing published in Japan. According to Braga (1963, p. 124) there are known to be eight copies preserved of the present work: (1) Roman Jesuit Archive, (2) British Museum, London, (3) Toyo bunko, Tokyo, (4) Library of Sophia University, Tokyo; (5-7), Pei-t'ang, Peking, three copies and, (8) Public Library ofToulouse, France.

Luis de Cerqueira (1552-1614), was a native of Vila de Alvito, Evora, in Portugal. He joined the Jesuit Order in 1566. After his studies he spent some years in Rome, serving as secretary at the Jesuit Curia. Around 1577 he retumed to Portugal, where he was occupied in various assignments. In 1592 he was named bishop of Japan, but he did not arrive there until 1598. He spent sixteen years in the mission and worked tirelessly for the spreading of the Gospel. He went through great hardship in the persecution ofthe Tokugawa reign and died in Nagasaki.

Cf. Johannes Laures, S.J., Kirishitan Bunko: A Manual of Books and Documents on the early Christian Mission in Japan.Tokyo, 1957; Kirishitanban, pp. 152-153; Iwanami yðjimei jiten 岩波西洋人名辭典 (Tokyo，1937), p. 573; Josef Franz Schütte, S.J., Monumenta Historica Japoniae I (Rome 1975), pp. 1151-1152; Kirishitan shiryōshū  切支丹史料集， no.67.

Source: Albert Chan, Chinese Books and Documents from the Jesuit Archives in Rome, p. 273-274.

Japonica-Sinica edition has archivist's note: "Alessandro Valignano - Strategista delle missioni nell'Oriente. Ceremoniale è uno mezzi di questa strategia."

See: Bibliotheque de Touluse edition