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In 1695, the Anglican minister John Evans (?1652–1724), later Bishop of Bangor, gifted various materials to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Among the gifts were the 1596 Jesuit mission print of the Japanese translation of the Contemptus mundi, as well as a miscellany, rediscovered in 2021, containing various samples of Asian scripts, and a scroll with a horoscope in Bengali, now deemed to be lost. Evans must have obtained these written materials at trade outposts in South Asia. By examining the mission print and the miscellany in the context of Evans’ activities as a trader and as a chaplain of the East India Company in Bengal, this chapter highlights the interrelated networks involving the Anglican church, the East India Company, and the University of Oxford. The materials illustrate the transregional relationships between commerce and religion in the late seventeenth century, and provide an insight into the exchange of information, goods, and services between people from various opposing sides.

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Bridging Religion, State, and Asian Trade in the Seventeenth Century: John Evans and the Bodleian Japanese Jesuit Missionary Print of 1596

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  • Katja Triplett

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In 1695, the Anglican minister John Evans (?1652–1724), later Bishop of Bangor, gifted various materials to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Among the gifts were the 1596 Jesuit mission print of the Japanese translation of the Contemptus mundi, as well as a miscellany, rediscovered in 2021, containing various samples of Asian scripts, and a scroll with a horoscope in Bengali, now deemed to be lost. Evans must have obtained these written materials at trade outposts in South Asia. By examining the mission print and the miscellany in the context of Evans’ activities as a trader and as a chaplain of the East India Company in Bengal, this chapter highlights the interrelated networks involving the Anglican church, the East India Company, and the University of Oxford. The materials illustrate the transregional relationships between commerce and religion in the late seventeenth century, and provide an insight into the exchange of information, goods, and services between people from various opposing sides.