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Jesuits in the New World: Diego de Torres Bollo in Sixteenth Century Peru

Published in Italian in 1604, the second edition of Breve Relatione describes the region of Peru from the perspective of the Spanish Jesuit missionary Diego de Torres Bollo. Originally published in Rome in 1603, Breve Relatione represents one of the first printed sources of Jesuit missionary endeavors in early modern South America.
A Roycroft Book, the Perfect Gift for a Jesuit Professor

This particular edition of Lamb’s collection of 14 essays was printed and then bound in suede leather at the Roycroft Shop in East Aurora, New York.
Philip Caraman, SJ: the Travelling Jesuit

Writing on the cusp of the Cold War and rising secularism, these authors straddle a fine line between popular and Catholic literature, and many times it is hard to separate the two.
From Jesuitica to Graham Greene: A Student Intern’s Experiences with Conservation

I’ve come to discover that these rare books hold more than I expected during my recent summer internship and assistantship with Burns’ Conservator, Barbara Adams Hebard.
Fulton’s Various Rules: Making Boston College a Jesuit Institution

In 1599, the Society of Jesus published the Ratio Studiorum and sent copies to their eight schools throughout Europe. The Ratio was essentially a rulebook for all the colleges operated by the Jesuits.
Lexica Jesuitica: Catechisms and Prayer in a New World

The Jesuits call themselves men on the move, a religious society committed to reaching far places and pushing the frontiers of knowledge. Over the centuries, the society has embraced many collectors of words, missionaries and scholars dedicated to putting previously unwritten languages to paper and gathering them for purposes of learning. Some of these books…
Lexica Jesuitica: Missioner Dictionaries of Madagascar

The Burns Library owns copies of the three earliest French-Malagasy dictionaries, dating from 1853, 1888, and 1899. These three volumes uniquely document the histories of Madagascans and their changing place in the world during the turbulent decades of the late 19th century. The first of these dictionaries was published in precarious circumstances. The volume opens with…
Lexica Jesuitica: Missioner Dictionaries of Latin America

The Jesuitica Collection in the Burns Library conserves some of the earliest written records of Amerindian spoken languages. As Jesuits pursued their missionary commitments among the peoples they met, they compiled dictionaries and grammars to help them in their efforts. These reference works not only shed light on Jesuit priorities as they sought to communicate a…