Jesuits and the Globe

The directory allows for the searching of the titles, authors, and subjects of the more than 1,000 volumes of Boston College Libraries’ Jesuitica collection online. The collection focuses on works published prior to the suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773.

The Portal’s Essential Document collection offers free access to English translations of some of the most important primary sources in Jesuit history. The selected documents include letters and addresses from the Fathers General–dating back to Ignatius of Loyola–selected decrees and addresses from the General Congregations, and bulls, remarks, and other statements that pontiffs have made to or about the Society of Jesus.

Loyola University (Chicago) has digitized its collection of rare books by about the Jesuits publishing in the 15th-19th centuries.

A gateway to digitized books, manuscripts, images, musical scores, newspapers, magazines, and sound recordings from the national libraries of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay. Allows you to search all the libraries' collections at once and then links you out to that library's webpage.

The Biblioteca Digital Híspanica is the Digital Library of the National Library of Spain. It features books, manuscripts (theatrical/literary), drawings, photographs, engravings, cartographic materials, music scores, sound recordings, newspapers, and magazines from Spain & Latin America.

Digitized books from the National Library of Portugal, which includes holdings about or produced in Brazil and the wider Lusophone world.