Jesuit Books and Libraries in Europe, 1540s-1770s
The 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), who is currently pursuing a degre in Library and Information Studies at Valdosta State. 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 support of student and faculty research.
Women Printers from Paris, 17th Century
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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)
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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Ballin, Antoinette (1610 ?-1683). Ballin is identified as a bookseller, born in Paris in 1610. She married the bookseller Pierre Lamy in 1632 and worked with him in Paris on rue de La Calenda. Lamy died in 1660. Antoinette married the printer Louis Billaine in 1662 and worked in his shop on rue des Mathurins until he died in 1681. She did not marry a third time.
French guild codes allowed a widow to take over the business after the death of the husband if she stayed single. If she remarried, any subsequent marriages must be within the same profession in order for her to keep working Ballin and others therefore often made subsequent marriages in the same profession.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Arbour, Roméo. Dictionnaire des femmes libraires en France, 1470-1870. Geneva: Droz, 2003, here 316-317.
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