Jesuit Books and Libraries in Europe, 1540s-1770s
The European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
European Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project
This is the largest census of books owned by European Jesuit institutions prior to the suppression. It includes both texts currently held in libraries and information from pre-1773 inventories, and is an ongoing project created by Kathleen Comerford (Georgia Southern University).
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The EJLPP depends not only on libraries willing to share their collections, but on student interns. Our tenth assistant, Baoxin Lau (BA student), completed her semester with us in Spring 2021! Since then, we've had four more students, including the prize-winning Mady Bullard (see the About Us section for more). Students have created and maintained the Digital Commons site, worked on biographies for Jesuit authors, and helped me create the lists of women printers. I'm so proud of the work they all have done, and grateful to Georgia Southern for its tremendous support.
Women Printers from Alcalá de Henares
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(Research by Rachel Oliver [contributions identified with "RO"] and Baoxin Lau [contributions identified with "BL"]; writing by Baoxin Lau and Kathleen Comerford)
Entries without attribution are by Kathleen Comerford
N.B. General biographical information on the women included here can be found at one or more of the following publications or knowledge bases, which were used in collecting data for these vignettes.
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books printed by these women
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Consortium of European Research Libraries Thesaurus (general information; search page);
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Bibliotheque nationale de France notices d’autorité
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Biblioteca nacional de España Mujeres impresoras
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Library of Congress Authorities
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16th Century
Guillén, Maria de. Dates unknown. Wife of Miguel de Eguía, 1494-1558.
Rodríguez Rivalde, María. Fl. 1587-1624. Wife and widow of Juan Íñiguez de Lequerica.
Maria Ramirez (active 1587-1632). Alcala de Henares. Maria Ramirez was married to the printer Juan Gracian. Upon his death in 1587, she took over the print shop and began printing as ‘viuda de [widow of] Juan Gracian” and as “heirs of Juan Gracian.” Works printed in this shop were noted for typographic errors, due to the poor condition of her printing materials.
She only printed under her own name once, in 1600: La selva de aventura, by Jeronimo de Contreras.
RO, BL
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Establés Susán, Sandra. Diccionario de mujeres impresoras y libreras de España e Iberoamérica entre los siglos XV y XVIII. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2018, p. 421.
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Zozaya, Maria de. Dates unknown. Widow of Arnaldo Guillén de Brocar, fl. 1492-1500; d. 1523.
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17th Century
Salinas, Ana de. Dates unknown. Widow of Andrés Sánchez de Ezpleta, d. 1633?.
18th Century
García Briones, Maria. Fl. 1744-1770. Printed under her own name.