This online display is an electronic version of a display of certain Jesuit items in Special Collections at the Grasselli Library & Breen Learning Center, John Carroll University. The original display was exhibited in October, 1999.

Reproduction of the title page from the first printed edition of the SPIRITUAL EXERCISES by St. Ignatius Loyola, translated from Spanish to Latin by A. Frusius and printed in Rome by Antonio Blado, 1548. The page bears a simple woodcut of the Seal of the Society of Jesus. The Letters "IHS" are a Latinized monogram for the name of Jesus.

EJERCICIOS ESPIRITUALES St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556) Stabilimento Danesi Rome 1908 This book is a photographic reproduction of the original manuscript of the SPIRITUAL EXERCISES.

REGINAE PALATIUM ELOQUENTIAE Gerard Pelletier, S.J. (1587-1648) Franciscus Metternich Cologne 1709 This Jesuit book on oratory, called THE PALACE OF QUEENLY ELOQUENCE, is beautifully bound and has gilt edges. A queenly feature of its binding is its handpainted endpapers.

An embossed cover from a religious "gift book" called THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, by Francis de Ligny, S.J., printed in New York, 1867.

OPUSCULA QUAE DISPUTATIONIBUS St. Robert Bellarmine, S.J. (1542-1621) Joannes Baptista Ciottus Venice 1599 Bellarmine wrote to respond to the theology of the Protestant Reformation.

COMMENTARIA UNA CUM QUAESTIONIBUS IN OCTO LIBROS ARISTOTELIS DE PHYSICA AUSCULTATIONE Francisco de Toledo, S.J. (1532-1596) Bernardo Guinta Venice 1586 Title page of a scholarly commentary on Aristotle's PHYSICS.

P. VIRGILII MARONIS, OPERA, INTERPRETATIONE ET NOTIS ILLUSTRAVIT (Vol. II, The Aeneid, Books VI-XII) Charles de La Rue, S.J. (1643-1725) Sebastianus Coleti Venice 1764 A page from a scholarly commentary on Virgil's AENEID.

This ivory rosary belonged to Kaspar Alexander Keck, born in 1724. He became a Jesuit missionary and later was stationed at the Jesuit college in Manheim.

A galley proof of a title page for a catechism printed in a Native-American language by a Jesuit mission press.

LETTRES EDIFIANTES ET CURIEUSES ECRITES DES MISSIONS ETRANGERS (Letters from the Missions, Vol. 9) Jesuits Chez J.G. Merigot Paris 1781 This 18th-century French description of Jesuit missions contains an engraved map of Paraguay.

The type ornament, reproduced in the "transparent gifs,"
at the beginning and end of this display are from the title page
of Ignatius's EXERCITIA SPIRITUALIA (Rome 1548).

Charles Zarobila, Curator of Special Collections
zarobila@jcu.edu