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).
The EJLPP depends not only on libraries willing to share their collections, but on student interns. Our fifteenth assistant, Grace Brannen (BA student), worked with us in Fall 2025! Past students have included the prize-winning Mady Bullard (see the About Us section for more), who has completed a degree in Library and Information Studies at Valdosta State. See "About Us" for the most recent students. 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.
Basel
Women Printers from Basel
(Research by Angel Lockett and Kathleen Comerford; writing by Angel Lockett)
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.
books printed by these women
CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries Thesaurus): (eneral information; search page
Bibliotheque nationale de France notices d’autorité
Online Deutsche Biographie (incorporating printed German biographical dictionaries and born-digital content\
Historisches Lexokon der Schweiz HLS (available in French, German, Italian, and Romansch)
Wikipedia
Library catalogs
15th-16th Centuries