Philips van Winghe (1560-1592), humanist, antiquary and scholar of Early Christianity, came from a noble family of Louvain (Belgium) of the humanistic tradition. As customary for Northern humanists such as van Winghe and his family, he engaged in a “Grand Tour” in Italy.  Van Winghe stayed in Rome from 1589 to 1592, where he studied the remains of early Christian Rome in churches and catacombs and visited important archeological and art collections of the city, such as Della Valle, Cesi, and Farnese. He took many notes on his visits, made drawings of mosaics, frescoes and sarcophagi, as well as early Christian inscriptions. The greatest part of his notes and sketches on these subjects appears to have been recorded in two notebooks, one of which, the so-called Notebook. A goal of his work was publication on the subject of early Christianity. After his premature death in 1592, this project was continued by his brother Jérôme in collaboration with Peiresc, but was never concluded. Van Winghe was known in his time, and still is acknowledged today, as one of the first to document Roman catacombs. His work is considered precious, rare, and faithful records of monuments often difficult to reach. His notes and drawings were extensively used and shared by antiquaries and humanists of his and the next generation.  While humanist-antiquaries with archeological interests such as van Winghe were the most likely to record information on the non-Western world, such records remain rare. As for our present knowledge, in the case of van Winghe these records are limited to the mentioned above Azuchi Castle screens sketches, presumably located at the Vatican at that time, and the sketch of the Mexican god Quetzalcoatl, which comes from a codex likewise kept at the Vatican. At any rate, no authentic primary records by van Winghe related to the non-Western worlds have been discovered yet (the images we have are all copies from his work). This said, Philips’ interest in Japan does appear in his Notebook (ms 17872-73, fol. 165v). Therein he mentions the seminaries and colleges that Pope Gregory XIII had