QUÉTIF, JACQUES. - Dominican scholar and historian, b. in Paris on 6 Aug. 1618, d. there on 2 March 1698.

He professed in the convent of the Most Holy Annunciation on 19 Sept. 1635, studied at Saint-Maximin (Brignoles, Var) and at Bordeaux. From 1652 he was again in Paris. He is especially deserving for the literary history of his Order, having undertaken a collection of bio-bibliographical notices concerning more than 2000 Dominican writers, of whom about 800 are complete. His confrere J. Echard (d. in 1724) would carry out the work, perfecting and doubling the collection, and publishing it under the title Scriptores Ordinis Praedicatorum recensiti, notisque historicis et criticis illustrati (2 vols., Paris 1719-21); a colossal work, of high historical and literary value.

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BIBL.: Quétif-Echard, II, pp. 746-47; A. Mortier, Histoire des Maîtres Généraux des Frères Prêcheurs, VII, Paris 1914, pp. 336-40; R. Creytens, L'oeuvre bibliogr. d'Echard, ses sources et leur valeur, in Arch. Fratrum Praedic., 14 (1944), pp. 43-71; M. Gasnier, Les Dominicains de St-Honoré, Ligugé (Vienne) 1930, pp. 188-95.

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