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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Bound volume of letters and poetry relating to the Jesuits in Spain and Portugal: manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2022-054
Scope and Contents Bound volume of handwritten letters and decimas (poems of ten stanzas) relating to the Jesuits in Spain and Portugal in the mid to late 18th century, written in a cursive script, in two or more hands, on unruled, laid paper. The letters and poetry were likely copied from original documents, and compiled in the late 18th or early 19th century. Pasted to a preliminary leaf is handwritten table of contents, written in modern ink on graph-lined paper (numbered in Roman numerals; VIII is...
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Open for research.

Dates: probably between 1754 and 1800

Carta del rey de España â el papa, notìcìando el total exterminio de los jesuitas de sus domìnìos: manuscript fair copy

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2022-053
Scope and Contents

Sixteen-page manuscript fair copy of a letter from King Charles III of Spain to Pope Clement XIII on the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Spanish Empire. Dated at end of last page: Aranjuez, 2 de mayo de 1767. Written in ink on laid paper in a gathering of four bifolia.

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Open for research.

Dates: probably between 1767 and 1800

Della vita del P. Francesco di Geronimo, della Compagnia di Giesu : libri due manuscript copy / scritta, e dedicata al M. Rev. P. nostro il padre Michel Angelo Tamburrini preposito generale della Compagnia di Giesú dal P. Carlo Stradiotti della medesima compagnia

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2023-083
Scope and Contents

Manuscript copy of the 1719 Naples edition of Stradiotti's biography of Saint Francis de Geronimo. With an engraved portrait of Saint Francis de Geronimo, signed in plate: Nicolaus Morena delin.

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Open for research.

Dates: 1719

Etablissement des jésuites à Dijon (1581-1626): manuscript fair copy

 Collection
Identifier: BC-2022-063
Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Dates: 1700 - 1800

Excerpts from Fiestas que hizo el insigne Collegio de la Compañia de Iesus de Salamanca: manuscript fair copy.

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: BC-2024-011
Scope and Contents

Bound manuscript consisting of excerpts copied from the collection of poetry edited by Alonso de Salazar and published as: Fiestas que hizo el insigne Collegio de la Compañia de Iesus de Salamanca (Salamanca, 1610). Eleven unnumbered leaves followed by 22 numbered leaves, with text on both sides. Witth the signature and monogram of Francisco Javier de Santiago y Palomares on leaf 1 recto.

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Open for research.

Dates: approximately 1750

Goigs del gloriós Sant Ignasi de Loyola patriarca y fundador de la Companyia de Jesús, la festa del qual se celebra al últim de juliol: printing plate

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: BC-2023-123
Scope and Contents Zinc printing plate on wooden block, used to produce page 70 of: Joan B. Batlle. Los goigs a Catalunya: breus consideracions sobre son orígen y sa influència en la poesía mística popular. Barcelona : Arxiu, 1924. The plate reproduces a 1673 goigs to Saint Ignatius of Loyola from the press of Joseph Forcada. Text in two columns, with a portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Goigs (from Catalan, "joys") are poetic compositions of a popular nature sung to the Virgin Mary, to Christ, or to the...
Restrictions on Access

Open for research.

Dates: 1924

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