Tuscan Jesuit College Libraries (1565–78)
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Appendix 2 Tuscan Jesuit College Libraries (1565–78) Library of the Collegio Senese, 1565 ARSI Rom. 124 I, fols. 235r–236v: “Catalogo de libri theologi del Collegio di Siena, 1565.” Printed in Brendan Connolly, “The Roots of Jesuit Librarianship: 1540–1599” (PhD diss., University of Chicago, 1955), 239–48.1 The inventory consists of 201 titles in 230 volumes by 240 authors. The most frequently represented authors included Cicero (106–43 BCE) (thirteen books, including editions, commentaries, and copies), Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and Augustine (354–430) (seven books each, including edi- tions, commentaries, and copies), and Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (1225?–74) (five). This inventory listed volumes written by twenty-two Dominicans, twelve Fran- ciscans, five each of Augustinians and Jesuits, three Benedictines, one each of Carthusians, Carmelites, Cistercians, Barnabites and Hieronymites, and The- atines, for a total of fifty-two or nearly twenty-two percent of the authors. Organization: The list is not faithfully labeled or alphabetized. A section titled “Theology” consists of seventy-six titles in seventy-eight books; one identified as “Humanities,” eighty-two titles in eighty-three. Another forty-one books (forty titles) were labeled “Philosophia et Dialectica,” a category which also includes devotional works (notably the Imitation of Christ). Several books are listed in two different categories, which accounts for the difference in total numbers per section versus the entire list. Library of San Giovannino, 1565 ARSI Rom. 121, fols. 148r–150v, “Inventario delli libri del Collegio di Fiorenza fatto a die ii di febrario, 1565.” Printed in Brendan Connolly, “Roots of Jesuit Librarianship: 1540–1599,” 135–65; my reading is different on minor points. 1 Connolly also printed inventories from Loreto (492 books), Macerata (408), and Perugia (255). His reading of the inventory in Siena is substantially the same as mine, although I have been greatly aided by an increased availability of bibliographical resources in the decades since his research. Since the publication of my “Jesuit Tuscan Libraries of the 1560s and 1570s,” I have consulted the original and made corrections. © koninklijke brill nv, leiden, ���7 | doi �0.��63/9789004300576_0�� <UN> Tuscan Jesuit College Libraries 233 The inventory consists of 369 titles in 424 books (multiple holdings of forty- seven titles) by 276 authors. The most frequently represented authors included Cicero (twenty-eight books, including editions, commentaries, and copies), Aristotle (twenty-two), Giovanni Maria Verrato/Verrati, O Carm. (1490–1563) (seven, including copies), Aquinas (six), Augustine and Tommaso de Vio (Cajetan), C.R. (1469–1534) (six each, including copies), and Jerome (d.419/420) (five). This inventory con- tained volumes written by twenty-three Dominicans, eighteen Franciscans, six Augustinians, four each of Jesuits and Carmelites, two Benedictines, three Carthusians, and one each of Cistercians and Theatines, totaling sixty-two or nearly fifteen percent of the authors. Organization: One large unnamed group (293 titles in 322 books) with no clear divisions according to subject, followed by groups of forty-four Greek titles (forty-six books), six Hebrew titles (six books), thirteen Latin grammars, and thirty-one books categorized as “volgari,” comprising a total of thirty-two volumes in Italian, French, Spanish, and even Latin. Several books are listed in two different categories, which accounts for the difference in total numbers per section versus the entire list. Library of San Giovannino, 1578 ASF CRSPL 999, Filza 3, no. 104: Collegio S Giovanni Evangelista, Firenze, fols. 25v–39r: Inventario di tutti i beni mobili di casa fatto a primo di ottobre di 1578 per ordine del Padre Sebastiano Morales, visitatore della provincia della Toscana; the list of books is found in fols. 32v–39r and is transcribed below. This is the only catalog that has not been published in its original form. I am working on a larger project concerning Jesuit libraries in Europe before the suppression of the Society of Jesus and plan to make multiple inventories available as a result. The inventory consists of 673 titles in 701 books by 503 authors. The most frequently represented authors included Cicero (twelve books, including editions, commentaries, and copies), Aristotle (twenty-two books), Aquinas (nine books), and Francisco Torres (Franciscus Turrianus), S.J. (c.1509– 84/86) (eight books). This inventory contained volumes written by forty-three Dominicans, thirty-eight Franciscans, fourteen Jesuits, twelve Benedictines, nine Augustinians, five each of Carthusians and Carmelites, and one each of Barnabites, Cistercians, and Theatines, with a total of 131, or nearly twenty-six percent, for authors from religious orders. <UN>.