Constitutiones Cum earum Declarationibus. Rome, In Collegio eiusdem Societatis,

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The final, authoritative version of the Constitutions of the Society of Jesus, prepared during the third and fourth General Congregations. This Latin version was compiled under the direction of the third congregation and subjected to the minute scrutiny of the fourth, with the help of the original Spanish manuscript, preserved in the Society’s archives. The “Declarations” are found here as marginal glosses, printed in italic. The Constitutions is one of the fundamental texts of the Society of Jesus, written by the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and his companions, notably his secretary Juan de Polanco. It was originally written in Spanish and published as a manuscript in 1553; the first Latin translation was printed in 1559. Bound in at the end of this volume are 10ff. (numbered pp. 223-240, [1] f.) extracted from another work published by the Society in the following year, giving Pope Gregory XIII’s official confirmation of the revised Constitutiones , signed on the colophon by Secretary of the Jesuits in Rome, Jacobus Ximenez (Diego Jimenez, 1530-96) with a label from the order. Ximenez was directly involved in the posthumous publication of his mentor, and one of Ignatius of Loyola’s first companions, Jerónimo Nadal’s hugely significant Adnotationes et meditationes in Evangelia (1595). “The first major publishing venture of the Society of Jesus” (Vacalebre) the Adnotationes was a lavishly illustrated guide to the Gospels, in which illustration and its interaction with t

• Year: 1583

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