The Blackfan Annals / Los Anales de Blackfan. Latin - English - Spanish.
BLACKFAN, (Father John, S.J.).; HARRIS (Peter E.B.), editor
8vo. xliv, 266pp., 17 colour illustrations. Bound in green cloth, lettered in gilt.
The Royal English College, Valladolid; distributed by Maggs Bros. Ltd., London, 2008
Annals of the English College, Valladolid / Los Anales del Colegio de los Ingleses, Valladolid. Volume I.
Father John Blackfan, S.J. (1560-1641) was one of the first three students assigned to the recently founded English College of St. Alban at Valladolid, arriving in 1589. Between 1596 and 1604 he was the college's minister and he took his final vows a s Jesuit in 1602. In 1605 he was at St Omer and returned to valladolid in November 1608. In 1611 he joined the English Mission but he was captured in August 1612, imprisoned and then exiled in September 1613. He returned to Valladolid, where he was briefly rector. He returned to England in late 1621 or early 1622 and died in Lincoln on 15/24 January 1641. The Annals, written in Latin, provide an account of his first twenty-five years and a history of the early years of the college.
The Latin text of the original manuscript was published by J.H. Pollen in Annales Collegii S. Albani in Oppido Valesoleti (Roehampton, 1899) but this is the first editon with translations intp English and Spanish.
This first volume of this annual series. Planned initially for publication over ten years, the purpose of the series is to make available documents from the College Archives that will further the study of Catholic history in the U.K. and Spain. All volumes will be published bilingually with Spanish and English texts. One hundred and fifty copies will be printed, of which no more than 100 are for sale. The volumes will be designed and seen through the press by Dame Catherine Wybourne of the Veil Press at Holy Trinity Monastery, East Hendred, Oxfordshire. The General Editor of the Series is Fr Peter Harris (Honorary Archivist, English College, Valladolid).
Future volumes commissioned to date are:
2009 Vol. 2: The Fruits of Exile: Emblems and pamphlets from the English College, Valladolid, edited by Ana Sainz and Berta Cano.
2010 Vol. 3: Papers of the Spanish Elizabethans: Baldwin, Cottington, Englefield, Stanley, Bluet, Cowarne, Owen, Blacader, edited by Peter Harris.
2011 Vol. 4: 2012 Vol. 5, 2013 Vol. 6 (3 vols in total): Collected Letters of Robert Persons, edited by Thomas McCoog S.J., Michael Questier, Victor Houliston, Javier Burrieza, Ginevra Crosignani.
All volumes will be distributed exclusively by Maggs Bros.
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