JesuitLibProvProject

A digital humanities project dedicated to uncovering the narratives in the original St. Ignatius College library catalog.

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Did the #Jesuits at St Ignatius College (forerunner to @LoyolaChicago) collect books about music for their library in 1870? Read our latest blog post to find out. @LUCArchives @LUCLibraries
https://t.co/Wg5zMxA7bJ

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

1735 Manual of the Roman Rite in the original St Ignatius College Library given by the Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary of Spain to Rev. J.P. Donelan (who gave his collection to the Jesuit College). Now in @LUCArchives @LoyolaChicago https://t.co/g80VL53jgM

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Learn more about which books of Latin drama the #Jesuits at St Ignatius College in Chicago collected, and which survive today @LUCArchives @LoyolaChicago #CatholicHistory
https://t.co/yO8BzHgw5k

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Register for the talk here: https://t.co/o5Pm8I3sSE

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Looking ahead to the March 22nd lecture on "Latin Drama, Jesuit Education, and the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair" @LoyolaChicago with Laura Gawlinski and Christopher Polt, posted books from 1870 library @LUCArchives @LUCLibraries inc 1684 Plautus https://t.co/8XrCyLtuyx

[Kyle B Roberts @kylebroberts]

University of Liverpool Hist Dept is hiring two 3-year postdocs to work on a new AHRC-funded #DH #LibraryHistory project to create a massive VLS of 18th-century English language library catalogs from around Atlantic World. More info here: https://t.co/0z1dNmqES7 Share widely!

[Slavery, History, Memory, & Reconciliation Project @SHMRJesuits]

This map of Saint Stanislaus Novitiate in 1836 depicts a small cabin on the right where more than seven enslaved people lived, sharing cramped quarters while cooking and cleaning for the Jesuits.

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

What is "The Defining Concept of Digital Book History?" @kylebroberts asks in our most recent post: https://t.co/4CMwNWusCV It is based on his comments on an @SHARPorg panel at #aha19 this past weekend.

[Kyle B Roberts @kylebroberts]

Looking ahead to #AHA19 @SHARPatAHA panel on Digital Approaches to #BookHistory at 3:30 pm today, I’m thinking about how profoundly digital platforms, sources, and tools have changed the way book historians have studied material texts over the past few decades. 1/9

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Chicago Jesuits had a small but fascinating collection of law books, including this 1850 volume from Philadelphia. https://t.co/XYrdYfkHX5 @LUCArchives

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Eighteenth-century French Catholic priest Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier was know for writing against the philosophes and his Dictionnaire de theologie. @LUCArchives https://t.co/2ty2EVi4TF

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

This popular Catholic tract, published in multiple American editions, was attributed to Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick and father of the short reigning Tsar Ivan VI (1740-41). @LUCArchives https://t.co/SqfhnGcd3P

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Seventeenth-century Vincentian Louis Abelly's Medulla Theologica remained in print for centuries and was actively collected by other orders, like the Chicago Jesuits who received a copy from their St. Louis leaders. @LUCArchives https://t.co/W0wSSwpekL

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Wonderful example of a reader's addition to an 1862 manual of devotion, collected by the Chicago Jesuits in 1870. @LUCArchives https://t.co/LjwLnxouuK

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Francis Kenrick was a leading Irish-American Catholic theologian and brother of the the Archbishop of St Louis, where the Jesuits originally collected this work before sending it along to the Chicago Jesuits. https://t.co/2fOBLdXR3E @LUCArchives

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

A French 1841 Mathematics text book, one of the few hundred books given to the Chicago Jesuits in 1870 as part of a core collection to start the St. Ignatius College library. https://t.co/HGKyt8ys05 @LUCArchives

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Pedro de Ribadeneira was one of the first generation of Jesuits, first biographer of St. Ignatius, and editor of the Institutes, here in an 1864 edition collected by the Chicago Jesuits. https://t.co/OdOSSfQCHm @LUCArchives

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Seventeenth-century Italian Jesuit Paolo Segneri's works, like La Manna Dell'anima remained popular into the nineteenth century. @LUCArchives https://t.co/KKRluT0Cuu

[Medieval Manuscripts @BLMedieval]

We've been following the journey a giant book made 1,302 years ago. On 12 August it reached 'the lands of Gaul’ (Galliae terras aka the purple dot on the map). This autumn, it will return to the British Isles for the first time:
https://t.co/ow2zslSyI8

[JesuitLibProvProject @JesuitProject]

Edward Terwecoren SJ (1815-1872) was a prolific popularizer of Jesuit missionary activity, including the works of Pierre-Jean DeSmet, while also publishing devotional works such as this one collected by Chicago Jesuits https://t.co/9YnHh2y2xt @LUCArchives