This article examines several libraries assembled by the Society of Jesus in their college and missions in Northern Mexico (in the present-day Mexican State of Chihuahua), where Jesuits have been a constant presence from the seventeenth century, interrupted only temporarily by the Society’s suppression. All their bibliographic collections were transferred, dispersed, or looted after the general expulsion of 1767. Archival materials preserved in repositories such as the Archivo General de la Nación in Mexico City, however, enable a reconstruction of these libraries. This essay argues that these collections constituted a sort of “cultural oasis” (Michael Mathes). They provided arsenals of knowledge for missionaries in distant places with harsh living conditions and show the strong and lasting bond between Jesuits and print culture even in the most remote and adverse of conditions.

本文考察了耶稣会在北墨西哥（今墨西哥奇瓦瓦州）的大学和传道部组建的几个图书馆，耶稣会士从 17 世纪以来一直在那里，只是因该协会的镇压而暂时中断. 在 1767 年的全面驱逐之后，他们所有的书目收藏都被转移、分散或掠夺。然而，保存在墨西哥城的 Archivo General de la Nación 等存储库中的档案材料使这些图书馆得以重建。这篇文章认为，这些藏品构成了一种“文化绿洲”（Michael Mathes）。