THE HARRY & JEANETTE WEINBERG MEMORIAL LIBRARY
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SPRING 2012 • Vol.1 Issue 1
A Newsletter from The Weinberg Memorial Library FALL 2021
Jesuit Center Collaborates with Special Collections to Expand Jesuit Rare Book Collection In collaboration with The University of Scranton’s Jesuit Center, the Weinberg Memorial Library has obtained eight rare Jesuitrelated volumes for Special Collections as part of an ongoing collaboration to strengthen the Hill-Davis Jesuit rare book collection. The Hill-Davis Collection, named in honor of Revs. William B. Hill, S.J. and Royden B. Davis, S.J., provides a representative selection of the types of books produced by Jesuits documenting their wide variety of intellectual, political, and missionary activities. The new acquisitions cover a variety of topics. There is an English translation of a Jesuit history of the church in Japan,
Drexel, Jeremias. Deliciae gentis humanae Christus Iesus, nascens, moriens, resurgens, Antverpiae: Apud Viduam Ioannis Cnobbari, 1639.
an English Jesuit’s attack on the mistaken theology of the English reformation, as well as a commentary and prayers on the life of Jesus, a collection of Jesuit sermons, and the announcement of the death of papal legate sent to China to deal with the Chinese Rites controversy. The recent acquisition also contains the Mexican printing and first translation of the Jesuit Rev. Ignacio de Paredes’s translation of Jesuit Geronimo Ripalda’s Spanish-language catechism into the Mexican language of Nahuatl. There were also publications acquired that contributed to the suppression of the Jesuits. (continued on page 2)
