Pierre Favre - Memoriale
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Pierre Favre (1506-1546) was one of the first Ignatius of Loyola's companions and the first Jesuit ordered priest. He is author of a famous Memoriale, a well-known spiritual text firstly published in 1873, after his canonization.
In 2018 an unknown manuscript of the Memoriale has been discovered within the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (shelf-number FC 1042). This page aims to outline the project developed after this discovery, the state of the art about the Memoriale textual tradition and the physical description of the APUG testimony.
Memoriale project
The Memoriale project aims to produce a digital edition of the manuscript FC 1042. To do this, a digital reproduction of the manuscript has been made and uploaded to GATE: it is available at this link. The next step is to produce a full transcription of this manuscript, in order to collate it with the canonical text of Favre's work, published in 1914 within the Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu. The variants will be highlighted and in the meanwhile a critical comment will also be added to the transcription.
The manuscript FC 1042
Look out here for information about the other known manuscripts of the Memoriale.
Bibliography
Boero 1873: Giuseppe Boero, Vita del beato Pietro Fabro della Compagnia di Gesù primo compagno di Sant’Ignazio di Loyola, Roma, Tipografia e libreria di Roma del Cav. Alessandro Befani, 1873.
Bouix 1873: Memoriale beati Petri Fabri primi S. Ignatii de Loyola alumni nunc primum in lucem editum a P. Marcello Bouix, Lutetiae Parisiorum, typis Alberti Gauthier-Villars, 1873.
Bouix 1874: Mémorial du bienheureux Pierre Lefèvre, premier compagnon de S. Ignace de Loyola. Publié pour la première fois en son texte latin et traduit en français, par le P. Marcel Bouix…, Paris, Imprimerie Gauthier-Villars, 1874.
Cat. Mac-Carthy: Catalogue des livres rares et precieux de la Biblioteque de feu m. le comte de Mac-Carthy Reagh, A Paris, chez De Bure frères, 1815.
de Certeau 1959: Pierre Favre, Mémorial, traduit et commenté par Michel de Certeau, Paris, Desclée De Brower, 1959.
de Certeau 1960: Michel de Certeau, Le texte du “Memorial” de Favre, ‘Revue d’ascetique et de mystique, 36 (1960), pp. 343-349.
Faber: Beati Petri Fabri epistolae, memoriale et processus ex autographis aut archetypis potissimum deprompta, Matriti, typis Gabrielis Lopez Del Horno, 1914.
Iparraguirre 1946: Ignacio Iparraguirre, Trozos selectos del Memorial del Bto. Fabro (editados criticamente), ‘Manresa’, 18 (1946), pp. 368-377.
