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The collection consists of nineteenth- and twentieth-century mounted bookplates. The plates feature finely detailed artwork, and serve as examples of period book art and typography. The artists and origins of the bookplates are from numerous countries, with the majority from the Czech Republic, Brazil, the Netherlands, and the United States.

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Brendan Connolly, SJ was the Director of Libraries at Boston College from 1959-1974. The collection is composed of Connolly's collection of nine ancient coins, a necklace made up of two blue stones, and one trinket-sized ancient ram or goat figurine.

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Scope and Contents Manuscript containing musical notation of chants for the Catholic celebration of the Mass for the Feast of the Transfiguration, consisting of 50 leaves, written in black, red, and blue ink, on parchment, and bound in full leather. Includes De epiphania Ieus nati (Quicumque Christum quaeritis), Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis Deo, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. Music in neumatic notation; four-line staff ruled in red. Pen-flourished initials in red and blue. Divisional title on leaf 4 recto...

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Fragile. Item is unavailable until conserved.

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Course of lectures on Aristotelian logic and the Institutiones of Saint Porphyry, itself a commentary on Aristotle. Bound volume of 259 leaves; written in Chancery hand, in brown ink. Pages ruled in red. Caption title on leaf A1r reads: Jacobi Comoleti philosophi In commersam dialecticam annotationes. Dated 4th October 1573 in margin of leaf A1r. Inscription on front pastedown reads: Commentaire manuscript par Jacob Comoleti philosophe sur la dialectique d'Aristote, octobre 1573.

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Abstract Bound manuscript of 143 leaves, 9 of which are blank. The text is divided into chapters, and treats philosophical subjects including logic, metaphysics, and morality. The authorship is unknown, but may tentatively be attributed to Abraham Girard (1635-1693), from whose libary the manuscript originates. Bound in is a printed folio broadside, measuring 38.5 x 25 cm, with title "Theses ex Vniuersa Philosophia Selectae" and imprint "Has propugnabit Carolus Gassendus, diniensis, Lugduni, in aula...

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Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 166 pages, on Jesuit governance and constitution. The first section, Explicatio casuum reservatorum, is concerned with special categories of confession, and refers on page 25 to the tenth Congregatio generalis of 1652. Following sections address Jesuit housing, education, drama, reading, annotation, and writing exercises.Pages 1-29. Explicatio casuum reservatorum in Soc. Iesu -- Pages 30-64. Instructio catechetica tironum Soc. Iesu -- Pages 65-94. Quae sunt...

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Collection of printed holy cards, largely of the eighteenth century, for German-speaking Catholics.

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Martin B. Hellriegel papers are comprised of sermons, articles, pamphlets, publications, lectures, diaries, audio tapes and correspondence of Hellriegel, a mid-twentieth century Catholic priest who served in St. Louis, Missouri. The collection primarily concerns the liturgical movement in the Catholic Church, especially in relation to the Liturgical Conference.

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Collection is open for research. Audio and video recordings have been digitally copied; all original media were retained, but may not be played due to format. Digital use copies can only be accessed in the Burns Library Reading Room.

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Bound manuscript of 124 pages (paginated 273-396, the last page blank), consisting of a series of meditations in Latin on the Exercitia spiritualia of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

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Scope and Contents Bound manuscript of 107 leaves, written in cursive Latin script, in several hands. First 2 leaves blank, followed by a title page, and main text of 74 leaves with handwritten foliation (leaves 16, 35, and 64 blank). Leaves 62-63 repeated. Leaves 75-100 blank except for foliation; 2 blank leaves at end. Includes epigrams, emblems, laudatory poetry, letters, and essays on tobacco and chocolate.00 |g Contents (supplied by cataloger; Latin titles transcribed from caption titles): |g...

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Leaf from a psalter, containing the end of the antiphon "Amplius lava me ab iniustitia mea" from feria 4 at Lauds per annum (Lauds of Wednesday of the first wek after Epiphany). Four-line staff ruled in red.

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Leaf from a troper, containing the end of the sequence "Hodierna dies veneranda" and concluding on the verso with the sequence for Ss. Peter and Paul "Isti sunt duae olivae ...". Four-line staff ruled in red.

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Bound manuscript of approximately 250 pages, with 6 engraved plates by Domenico Pauner and François de Poilly, including portraits of Saint Ignatius, Saint Francis Xavier, and Francisco Suárez. The text is a synthesis of the philosophy and logic of Francisco Suárez, divided in two sections of 41 and 100 leaves with handwritten foliation.

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Abstract Quadragesimale, together with other sermons and remarks on the lives of saints, by Bartholomew Rinonico, written in 2 columns in semi-gothic script, with pen-flourished initials in red, on paper, except for leaves 1 and 8 which are parchment. Marginal and interleaved additions written in a later, informal cursive script. Contemporary manuscript foliation at upper right. Leaves 1-55: Lives of various saints. Leaves 55v-56v: Laude in Italian verse. Leaves 57r-160v: Quadragesimale de Casibus....

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Consists of mimeograph copies of typescripts of De Gratia Christi (third edition, 1951) and De Deo Creante et Elevante (1953) by German Jesuit theologian Karl Rahner, accompanied by a letter from John D. Gerkin to Father John Foley commenting on them (1959).

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Historical maps of Europe and North America, with a focus on Ireland and revolution-era United States, collected by businessman Thomas F. Ryan, Jr.

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Academic and personal papers of twentieth century Boston College professor of psychology and theology Joseph E. Shea, SJ, including correspondence, course notes, diaries, retreat notes, and sermons.

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Liturgical manuscript containing three-part antiphons and vespers including settings for the In circumcisione Domini, In Festo S. Agnesio Verginis, In Conversione S. Pauli Apostoli, In Ascensione Domini, Commemoration Solemnis B.V.M. de Monte Carlo, and Assumptio Beate Mariae Virginis. These were used in the Carmelite Convent of Santa Maria degl'Angeli in Florence.

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Bound manuscript of 120 pages (last 5 pages blank), consisting of a devotional text written in the first person. Text begins on page 3 "Firma Animi decreta. Quemadmodum testudines et cochleae suas domunculas..." and concludes on page 113 "In itineribus memor sis frugalitatis, et modestiae ac pietatis."

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