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.
Team Spring 2021
Baoxin Lau is a student in the BA history program with an interest in the early modern and premodern periods. In addition to interest, her opportunity to use and practice Spanish drew her to this project. She dramatically expanded our knowledge base about women printers (go to the top menu "The Printers," and you'll find pull-down menus with some content. Baoxin's work is in the Spanish and Non-European sections). During Baoxin's semester, despite COVID and all the stress that came along with it, we made excellent progress and gained some insight into the basic work of women printers. We thank the Department of History for funding Baoxin's work.