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In April 2007, at the invitation of the Newberry Library,
the Loyola libraries made a joint acquisition of a number
of rare Jesuitica items from Andre Jammes, bookseller,
in Paris. Included in the purchase were three fascinating
broadsides (two 18th century and one possible 16th century)
used to criticize the Jesuits and their activities. Also
acquired was a multi-volume set of Jesuit and anti-Jesuit
pamphlets [Recueil A, B…Z] which nicely compliments
a set already owned by the University Libraries. Under
the agreement, Loyola may borrow the items at any time
for use by researchers or for an exhibit.
Recueil A, B…Z (Luxembourg, Paris, Brussels, and
Amsterdam, 1745-1762). A collection of 24 volumes containing
reprinted historical texts including material relating
to the Jesuit order. This set is supplemented by over 200
pieces of discrete original printed ephemera dating from
the 1750’s and 1760’s, many relating to the
expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal and France, and
including first editions of anti-Jesuit tracts composed
by Diderot, Voltaire, and La Chalotais.
Topos Religionis, (Paris, ca. 1763). An engraved broadside
purportedly reproducing a sixteenth or seventeenth-century
painting in the “soi-distant” Jesuit church
of Billon in the province of Auvergne in which the “ship
of religion” is piloted by two Jesuits with the Pope
and the Emperor depicted in subordinate roles. The original
painting no longer exists.
Pyramide devant la Porte du Palais `a Paris, (Paris, ca.1595).
A broadside bearing texts extolling the memory of Henry
IV and condemning the Jesuits for having inspired the king’s
assassin, Jean Chastel.
Lombard, Joseph-Nicolas, Theses ex universa Philosphia,
(Reims, 1738). Thesis defended by a Jesuit student at the
College of Reims for the degree of master in theology.
The thesis pertains to physics and astronomy and has images
of Jesuits suffering at the hands of North American Indians.
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