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RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de S.J.)Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societas Iesu. Opus inchoatum a Petro Ribadeneira . 1602. Continuatum a R.P.Philippo Alegambe . usque ad annum 1642. Recognitum, & productum ad annum Iubilaei M.DC.LXXV. a Nathanaele Sotuello. Rome, J. A. de Lazzaris Varesij, 1676. Folio. xxxvi + 982p + errata leaf. Woodcut of Jesuit de¬vice on title. Contemporary red morocco, gilt; edges gilt; lightly worn. The most complete early edition of the standard bio-bibliography of the Jesuit Order. Its originator, the Spanish Jesuit Pedro de Ribadeneyra (1527-1611), a young follower of St Ignatius of Loyola, who was re¬ceived by him into the Order in 1540, pursued his pioneering studies for this book up to the year 1602. The bibliography comprises a list of Jesuit provinces worldwide including Brazil, China, Goa, Japan, Malabar, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and the Philippines. The succeeding compiler, Philippe Alegambe (1592-1652), a Belgian priest in the service of the Duke of Osuna, Spanish Viceroy of Sicily, was assisted in his researches by the Belgian Jesuit and founding hagiographer Jean Bolland (1595-1665); Alegambe, who had joined the Order of Jesus in 1613, and later became Superior of the Roman House of the Jesuits, continued the work to 1642 and fundamentally expanded it. The third successive editor was the English Catholic Nathaniel Bacon, alias Nathaniel Southwell (1598-1676), who revised and and enlarged the opus until the year 1675 in celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Order. Bacon had entered the English College in Rome in 1617 to study theology, became a Jesuit in 1624, and was appointed Secretary to Vincent Caraffa, 7th General of the Order in 1645. In the present edition he latinised his as¬sumed name of Southwell to Nathanaele Sotvello . Born in Norfolk, he may have been a nephew of Francis Bacon, and it is thought that he disguised his real name for political reasons to avoid embarrassing his Protestant relations. (See on this the German mathematician Georg Cantor s Shakespeare-Bacon Theory). A supplement to this bibliography by the Spanish Jesuit Ramón Diosdado was published Rome, 1814-16. A fine presentation copy bound in contemporary red morocco from the library of the French theologian Sébastien Joseph du Cambout, Baron de Pontchasteau, author of La morale pratique des Jésuites (1669) ); with his ownership entry in ink De M. de Pontchasteau in right title margin (he also wrote two tracts on Port-Royal, and a work on the cultivation of fruit trees mentioned by Comtesse de la Rivière, in: Lettres . a Madame la baronne de Neufpont, son amie . avec beaucoup de nouvelles & anecdotes du regne de Louis XIV depuis 1686 jusqu à l année 1712); top blank title margin with contemporary manuscript ink entry Dirige me Domine in via tua de semitas tras adore me Palau 266563; Sabin 70777. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-11483147116
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