Textes Ignatiens
Contributors: Francis Xavier, Saint, 1506-1552; Polanco, Juan-Alphonso de, 1516-1577; Bobadilla, Nicolaus Alphonsus, 1511?-1590; Rodrigues, Simão, -1579; Ribadeneyra, Pedro de, 1526-1611; Ravier, André; Milward, Peter, donor, former owner
Publisher: L'Équipe Jésuite
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Subjects: Jesuits; Sources; History
Description: Consists of 5 series of French translations of texts by or about Ignatius and the early history of the Jesuits: Documents (important acts or official texts, notably those concerning the origins of the Constitutions); Correspondances (Ignatius-Xavier, Ignatius-Favre, Ignace-Bobadilla, etc.); Témoinages (texts about the origins of the Order written by those close to Ignatius); Chronicon (French translation of Juan-Alphonse de Polanco’s Vita Ignatii Loiolae et rerum Societatis Jesu historia); Index des fascicules et cahiers des Textes ignatiens.
Notes: Mimeographed.

Originally issued in parts.

According to information from Jesuits in France and Canada, the Textes Ignatiens were copied and distributed by "L'Équipe Jésuite" under the leadership of Fr. André Ravier, starting in 1976 and continuing into the 1980s. Series 4 consists of a French translation of Juan-Alphonso de Polanco's Chronicon Societatis Iesu.  The work of anonymous French and Canadian Jesuits, this is the first complete translation of this fundamental source of early Jesuit history into any modern language.

4. sér., fasc. 19-25 labeled tome IV-VI, année 1554-1556.

The plan for the work given in ser. 1, fasc. 1 shows that ser. 5 is projected to be a “lexique enfin de l’époque ignatienne.”  However, the “Index des fascicules et cahiers des Textes Ignatiens” is designated series 5 (apparently having taken the place of the “lexique”).

Peter Milward ; gift ; 2007

Burns Library copy: gift of Peter Milward.
Table of contents: title: 1. sér.  Documents.  1.-2.  [without distinctive title] ; 3.  Les industries de Polanco; title: 2. sér.  Correspondances.  1.  [without distinctive title] ; 2.  François Xavier, Ignace de Loyola lettres ; 3.  “Instructions” données par le P. Ignace à ceux quit sont envoyés en mission ou qui font voyage; title: 3. sér.  Témoignages.  1. Origine et développement de la Compagnie de Jésus / par Simon Rodrigues.  Extraits de l’Autobiographie de Nicolas Bobadilla, S.J.  ; 2.  La route du Christ et les routes des premiers Jésuites ; 3.  Le journal de Théodoric Geeraerts (scolastique au Collège romain de 1553 à 1558).  Traité du gouvernement de notre bienheureux Père / par le Père Pierre de Ribadeneira; title: 4. sér.  Chroniques de la Compagnie de Jésus / par le Père Jean-Alphonse de Polanco. 1. 1537-1545 ; 2. 1546-1547 ; 3. 1548 ; 4-5. 1549 ; 6. 1550 ; 7-9. 1551 ; 10-13. 1552 ; 14-18. 1553 ; [19-20]. 1554 ; [21-22]. 1555 ; [23-25]. 1556; title: 5. sér.  Index des fascicules et cahiers des Textes Ignatiens.