Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica, edited by Dr. Karl Kehrbach.
This is the standard work on the educational system of the Jesuits; it contains all the most important historical documents relating to Jesuit education, particularly in Germany. The great value of the work has been acknowledged by numerous historians and writers on pedagogy. (We quote: Pachtler, I, II, III, IV.)
Monumenta Historica Societatis Jesu, Madrid, 1894 foll.
A huge collection of material relating to the early history of the Society. Published since 1894 in monthly instalments of 160 pages each; up to February 1903 there were out 110 instalments. The collection is a most valuable source of information for the history of religion and education in the sixteenth century. Of particular importance for the history of Jesuit education are instalments 93, 97, 99, 100, 101, 194, entitled:
Monumenta Paedagogica, Madrid, 1901-1902.
To be carefully distinguished from Father Pachtler's volumes in the Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica.
The following works are important commentaries on the Ratio Studiorum:
Sacchini, F., S. J., Paraenesis ad Magistros Scholarum Inferiorum Societatis Jesu, and Protrepticon ad Magistros Scholarum Inferiorum Societatis Jesu (1625). – German translation by J. Stier, S. J., in Herder's Bibliothek der katholischen Pädagogik, 1898, vol. X, pp. 1-185.
Jouvancy, J., S. J., Ratio Discendi et Docendi (1703). Of this important educational work (see above pp. 434-435) there exist eighteen editions in the original Latin, a French translation by J. Lefortier, Paris 1803, and a recent German translation: Lern-und Lehrmethode, by R. Schwickerath, S. J., in Herder's Bibliothek, etc., 1898, vol. X, pp. 207 322.
