Antiquarian Books

Photograph of antiquarian books on shelves
A year and three lockdowns into the pandemic and our old way of working has fractured, the ‘new normal’ has become the merely normal.  Working from home means we have had to find new things to do, or new ways of doing old things.  In this blog post I reflect on my experience of writing about rare books using only some rather unprofessional pictures on my phone camera, and a lot of good internet resources.Last month I wrote a blog post about two books in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book...
Lockdown and working from home has meant that I have not been able to continue with cataloguing the books in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book Collection.  However, I have been able to take a look in greater detail at some of the books already catalogued, especially those of which I had pictures on my camera roll.  This blog is the result of some of these researches, and focuses on just two of the nearly 1000 pre-1700 volumes in the Jesuit Antiquarian Book Collection.  The...
World Book Day falls on 5 March this year, and this blog post will look at some of the antiquarian books in the Jesuit Archives which I have been cataloguing recently.I have been struck by how many of the books which retain their older bindings – that is, those which were not re-bound in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries -- contain re-used materials.  ‘Reduce Reuse Recycle’ is a current concept, and one which we should all try to put into practice, but it is not a new idea. ...
This week’s ‘From the Archives’ blog post has been written by our most recent work experience student, Evangeline Mills. Read on to find out what she did and what she learnt during her week in the archives.In October I carried out a week of work-experience at the Jesuits in Britain Archives. Although I am already familiar with some of the practices carried out by archivists, cataloguers and volunteers alike, due to my own experience researching and volunteering in other Archives, my experience...
In this blog post, volunteer Lucy tells us about the fascinating process of cataloguing our historically important antiquarian book collection.The Jesuits in Britain Archive holds an important collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century theological books, together with bibles, prayer books, and historical works, and for the past three months I have spent one day a week working on them, examining each in turn and preparing a list of them for the Archivist.  Books are not, strictly...
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