Louvain Papers, 1606–1827

Louvain Papers, 1606–1827 is an edited collection of seventeenth- to nineteenth-century administrative, financial, and correspondence records relating to the Irish Franciscan College of St Anthony at Louvain (Leuven), in the Spanish Netherlands. Edited by Brendan Jennings and published by the Irish Manuscripts Commission, the papers document the activities of Irish Franciscan friars both in exile and in Ireland during the post-Reformation period.

The collection is regarded as an important primary source for the study of Irish Catholic institutions following the suppression and destruction of monasteries in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.