Tools
To help your exploration of the growing collection of Jesuit petitions contained in the Digital Indipetae Database, the editors have assembled some resources.
Learn more about the terminology used both in the letters themselves and in the database (to distinguish between ‘To’ and ‘Destination’, or to understand to what ‘Models/Saints/Missionaries’ or ‘Anterior desire’ refers).
Learn more about the conventions that the scholars have adopted when transcribing letters in order to facilitate the reading of the letters.
Learn more about the most important and most recent scholarship on the indipetae through a growing bibliography maintained by the database’s editors.