Compendium of Jesuit exercises, rules, and texts
Dates
- Creation: probably between 1565 and 1580
Scope and Contents
Comprised of a variety of Jesuit and Jesuit influenced texts, including early exercises, Jesuit rules, and unknown Jesuit texts. Work 5 contains 65 rules, as did the original Reglas comunes created in 1551. Work 10 contains 11 rules for Jesuit students, as does the Ratio studiorum (Munich, 1600), with textual variations. Works 15, 16 and 27 contain texts related to Monumenta Ignaciana, textus Vallsioletanus (Colegio de Ingleses, Ms. 898, ff. 19r-34r), with textual variations. Work 18 contains 24 exercises, untraced to any existing printed work, likely inspired by Ignatius' exercises and other Jesuit works. Work 30 contains 12 instructions, likely based in part on the works of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. Work 37 comprises the beginning of the ninth treaty, Tratado de confusión, of San Francisco de Borja's Tratados espirituales (Alcalá de Henares, 1550). All other texts have not been traced.
Language of Materials
Primarily Spanish with some Latin.
Restrictions on Access
Open for research; digital version also available. Fragile original; use care and handling.
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
1 Volumes : 222 leaves ; 106 x 76 mm (89 x 49 mm)
Folio index
1. fol. 1r-5v: Artificio de los ex[ercicio]s de n[uestro] p[adre] Ignacio
2. fol. 6r: Amor laborem non fetit
3. fol. 6v: blank
4. fol. 7r-19v: Sumario de las constituciones que trata de la sp[irit]ual institucio[n] de los n[uestr]os las cuales todas se deben observar
5. fol. 20r-26r: Reglas communes
6. fol. 26v-27r: Regulae patris Ignacii
7. fol. 27r-28r: Reglas de modestia
8. fol. 28v: Oracion y obediencia
9. fol. 28v. [Latin extract from the Speculum monachorum by Arnulf of Bohéries]
10. fol. 29r-30v: Regulae scholasticorum
11. fol. 31r-31v: Regulae quaedam observande
12. fol. 32r-33r: Modo de dar quenta plena conciencia
13. fol. 33v: blank
14. fol. 34r-37r: Carta d[e] la ob[edienci]a d[e] nuestr[o] p[adr]e Ignacio
15. fol. 38r-40r: Meditacion de la muerte co[n]tiene despues de la or[ació]n preparat[iv]a 2 preambulos y 7 punctos y un colloquio -- 16. fol. 40v-42v: Meditacion del juizio
17. fol. 43r-43v: blank
18. fol. 44r-181v: Para hacer bien los exercicios se ha de hazer los siguiente
19. fol. 182r-185v: Meditaciones del amor de Dios
20. 186r-189v: Medios para alcanzar el amor de dios
21. fol. 190r-192r: Discurso de los mas principales misterios de la Passion de C[hrist]o de Nu[estr]o Señor
22. fol. 192v-193r: De la grandeza de los dolores de christo
23. fol. 194r-195v: Modos y vias de conte[m]plar la Passion de Nu[estr]o S[eño]r q[ue] so[n] los fructos q[ue] della han de sacarse
24. fol. 196r-197v: Memoria de los pasos de la Passion y a q[ue] [h]ora fuero[n] para hacer exame[n] de la prese[n]cia de Dios
25. fol. 198r-199r: Colloquio dulciss[im]o a la Sancta Cruz
26. fol. 199v: blank
27. fol. 200r-202r: Septem gradus obediae ex D. Bernar
28. fol. 202r-203v: De orone [i.e. oratione]
29. fol. 203v-204v: Co[n]te[m]placion
30. fol. 205r-210v: Doze grados de soberbia declarados por S. Ber[nardo]
31. fol. 211r: Servicios al s[an]to de cada mes
32. fol. 211v: S. Ambrosio
33. fol. 211v: Trismegisto
34. fol. 212r-214r: Siguesela s[an]ta regla de los amadores de la div[in]a sapia [i.e. sapiencia]
35. fol. 214r-215r: Avisos para religiosos
36. fol. 215v-216r: Para la lengua
37. fol. 216r-217r: Para sacar amor y co[n]fusio[n] de los buenos deseos
38. fol. 217r-217v: Avisos para los que va[n] a otras casas
39. fol. 217v-218r: Medios para comulgar con fructo
40. fol. 218r-219r: Siete grados de humildad
41. fol. 219r-219v: Medios para aborrecer la carne
42. fol. 220r: Quatuor semper religioso facie[n]da
43. fol. 220r: Septem gemit, charitatis
44. fol. 220r-220v: Quatuor semper agenda
45. fol. 220v: Protrib[us] semper gemiendem
46. fol. 220v: Septem miae adeo
47. fol. 220v: Tría humilita fundam[en]ta
48. fol. 221r: Tres grad[us] conforma[n]de me[um] volu[m]t[is] cu[m] div[in]a
49. fol. 221r-221v: Quatuor in quibus in gratitudo consistit
50. fol. 221v: Duo vere obedientie fundamenta
51. fol. 221v-222r: Tria sunt per quae obedientie meritorum de perdi protest
52. fol. 222r: De quatuor magna pacem
53. fol. 222r-222v: Docn monta quaedam
54. fol. 222v: Quotidie haec facienda sunt.
Provenance
Origin: Written in Spain, probably during the second half of the sixteenth century.
From a private collection in the United States, acquired in the early 1950s by the father of the previous owner through the intermediation of Spanish bookseller Enrique Montero González (1920-1986), from an English private collection.
Purchase from HS Rare Books, 2017.
Existence of digital copies
This item is available digitally. A link is included in the inventory.
Materials Specific Details
Manuscript codex. Date of production based on internal evidence. Sewn and unbound. Horizontal catchwords bottom margin, to right of center.
- Title
- Compendium of Jesuit exercises, rules, and texts
- Subtitle
- probably between 1565 and 1580
- Status
- Marc Only
- Author
- Amy Brown
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Dcrmg
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the John J. Burns Library Repository
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