Constitutiones Societatis Iesu.
Contributors: Ignatius, of Loyola, Saint, 1491-1556.; Catholic Church. Pope.; Jesuits.; Jesuits.
Publisher: In aedibus Societatis Iesu
Published: 1559
Place of publication: Romae
Language: lat
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Jesuits.; Jesuits -- Rules.; Jesuits -- Spiritual life.
Notes: The volume includes 4 separately paginated works with special title pages dated 1558 or 1559. The preface (prelim. p. [1-10]), anonymous but emanating from the Society's leadership, and "Submonitio ad lectorem" on prelim. p. [10] suggest the whole was issued together, with the collective t.p., in 1559.
The text of the Constitutiones themselves is the official Latin version, formulated in 1558, of Ignacio Loyola's last Spanish recension.
Signatures: pi⁶ A-D⁸ E⁴ ²A-K⁸ ³A⁴ ⁴A-H⁸ ⁵A-C⁸ ⁶A⁴. pi1 or pi⁶, probably blank, wanting in LC copy.
Blank leaves: (pi1?) E3,4; ⁴H8; ⁵C7,8.
Errata at end of the Constitutiones, Declarationes, and Declarationes in Examen.
Table of contents: title: Dilectis in Christo fratribus Societatis Iesu s.; title: Litterae apostolicae quibus institutio, confirmatio, & varia priuilegia & indulta Societati Iesu à Sede Apostolica concessa continentur; title: Constitutiones Societatis Iesu anno 1558; title: Declarationes et annotationes in Constitutiones Societatis Iesu; title: Primum ac generale examen : iis omnibus, qui in Societatem Iesu admitti petent, proponendum; title: Declarationes in Examen