Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, composed by Jerome Nadal (1507-80), St. Ignatius Loyola s closest collaborator in the early days of the Society of Jesus, was first published in Antwerp in 1595 (a second edition followed the same year, and a third edition in 1607). This book combined engravings portraying episodes from the Gospels executed by the premier Flemish engravers of the day with Nadal s explanatory notes and meditations on these episodes as depicted in the engravings, in order to help young Jesuit seminarians to meditate on the Gospels that they heard read at Sunday Mass. The impact of this book on the sacred art of the period after the Council of Trent was enormous not only in Europe, but also in the Americas, Africa, and Asia.Nadal s text (1607 edition) is presented in an accessible contemporary translation prepared by Frederick A. Homann, S.J., who also provides the reader with helpful notes and references. The translation is preceded by a thorough introduction to Nadal, his book, and its images by Walter S. Melion. Melion s introductory essay in Vol. 1: The Infancy Narratives is entitled The Art of Vision in Jerome Nadal s Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia. Volume 1 includes a CD-ROM with high-resolution scans of all 153 engravings from the 1607 edition.This collection will be of special interest to art historians, as well as other scholars working in the areas of Jesuit and early modern Catholic studies.

Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels: The Infancy Narratives

Religion & Spirituality

Nadal, Jerome

Worship & Devotion

Saint Joseph's University Press

<p>This cumulative index to Jerome Nadal's Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels, Vol. 1: The Infancy Narratives (2003), Vol. 2: The Passion Narratives (2007), and Vol. 3, The Resurrection Narratives (2005), offers an Index of Persons, Scriptural Index, Index of Subjects, and Iconographical Subjects. This volume also includes a monographic essay by Professor Walter S. Melion, who contributed introductory essays to each of the three preceding Nadal volumes. The title of his richly illustrated essay in this cumulative index volume is: "'Quis non intelligent hoc voluisse Christum': The Significance of the Redacted Images in Jeronimo Nadal's 'Adnotationes et Meditationes in Evangelia" of 1595."</p>

Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels: Cumulative Index

St Josephs Univ Pr

Gospel Illustrations: A Reproduction of the 153 Images Taken from Jerome Nadal's 1595 Book, Adnotationes Et Meditationes in Evangelia

MacDonnell, Joseph F.

Fairfiled Jesuit Community

<p>This is a book of extraordinary importance in the history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Reformation of the 16th and 17th centuries since it helps us to see and experience at first hand the original spirit of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. These Exercises had a tremendous impact in their day and continue to be influential today through various forms of retreats.  They provide a first-hand experience because it is clear that at some point Ignatius commissioned his companion and aide Jerome Nadal to put together a collection of engravings that would illustrate and illuminate the scenes of the Gospel presented in the Exercises as objects for imaginative prayer. Nadal also added notes to each engraving as detailed directions on how to focus imaginatively, selectively and prayerfully on various sections of each work.  And finally, as the original title emphasizes, all this is organically connected to the sequential Liturgies of the Church year.  All together, historically, artistically and spiritually this is a work where the word 'seminal' genuinely applies.</p>

Illustrated Spiritual Exercises

University of Scranton Press

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