Almanacs. Collection of 14 English almanacs for 1678.
Case AY 750 .C78

These almanacs were bound in the late seventeenth century. The volume includes a number of titles that the Newberry has for other years and some issues held by no American institution. Subjects covered include astronomical and political events.

Gift of Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr., at Treasures and Trimmings, 2003.

Bible, French. Apocalypse. Manuscript.
Vault Case MS 194

A fragment of a very early, perhaps the earliest, Continental transcription of the French translation of the Book of the Apocalypse (accompanied by a gloss, likewise in the vernacular) that some have thought to be of English origin. An edition by Professor William Paden is in progress. This fragment has been used as the binding for Gabriel Barletta, Sermones...tam quadragesimales [quam] sa[n]ctis (Lyon, 1507).

Purchased on the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund.

Bible, Latin, 1543, Biblia sacrosancta testame[n]ti veteris & noui: è sacra Hebraeorum lingua Graecorumque fontibus, consultis simul orthodoxis interpretib[us] religiosissime translata in sermonem Latinum; authores omnemq[ue] totius operis rationem ex subiecta intelliges praefatione (Zurich: C. Froschauer, 1543).
Vault Case fBS 90 1543

The first edition of the translation from the Hebrew by Leo Juda, the second Renaissance translation of the entire Hebrew Bible and the first done by a Protestant. This monument of the Hebrew Renaissance is here in an important sixteenth-century Parisian binding. The Library mounted a major exhibition on the Hebrew Renaissance in 1997.

Purchased on the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund

Bible, New Testament, Luke. Latin manuscript.
Vault Case MS 197
(Newberry/Notre Dame MS 9)

In the twelfth century, the Bible was typically consulted, as here, in separate books rather than in a single tome. This copy of the Gospel of Luke, probably from the Abbey of St. Eloi in Noyon (Normandy), is accompanied by the Glossa ordinaria, the standard twelfth-century exposition of the Biblical text that had been compiled earlier in the century. Here it is written in its usual form, interlinearly and in the outer margins. The standard division of Biblical books into chapters was only developed at the University of Paris in the early thirteenth century and, as one might anticipate, the chapter division of this Book of Luke varies considerably from that which we know.

Joint acquisition of the Newberry and the University of Notre Dame, the Newberry portion supported by donations by the Florence Gould Foundation, James Marrow and Emily Rose, William C. Vance, Gerald A. Weiner and Mary Young and from the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund.

Campbell's shippers' guide and travelers' directory: containing full directions for shipping, traveling and expressing to every place in the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Nebraska: and general directions for Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Dacotah, and Wyoming. Collated and arranged by a corps of experienced compilers, under the supervision of R.A. Campbell (Chicago, 1870).
Case HE 2721 .C2 1870

A very exhaustive and rare shippers' guide, which is not in Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints. Presentation copy from R.A. Campbell.

Purchased on the Smith Rare Book Fund.

Catholic Church, Breviary (Dominican), manuscript (Germany, ca. 1490).
Vault Case MS 198
(Newberry/Western Michigan MS 4)

An unstudied Dominican liturgical manuscript from the end of the Middle Ages. The Newberry has an exceptional collection of both manuscript and printed breviaries reflecting the uses of the various orders of the Catholic Church. This volume also complements the collection of rare printed books presented to the Library by the Dominican friars of the Province of St. Albert the Great in 2001-2002.

Joint acquisition of the Newberry and Western Michigan University. The Newberry portion purchased on the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund.

Civil War diary of Andrew McKay (1862-1864).
Vault Case MS 10029

Pocket diary of the 37th Iowa regiment known as the "Gray Beard Regiment," an infantry unit formed of healthy older men. The regiment guarded military prisons in Illinois. McKay died of disease at age 65 while in the service.

Purchased on the Woods Book Fund.

Council of Trent, a contemporary collection of 28 pamphlets dating from January 1562 to December 1563 (the third session) in its original binding.
*Case BX 830 1545. A45 N66 1562

Includes pamphlets printed by Jacob Marcaria, a noted publisher of Hebraica.

Gift of Lydia G. Cochrane and an annonymous donor, in memory of Eric Cochrane.

Feuillet, Raoul Auger, Choregraphie, ó vero l'arte di scrivere i balli per caratteri, manuscript prepared by Carlo Scaletta (Faenza, 1717).
Vault Case MS 5310

This is an unpublished translation of the original French printed text. The development of a graphic notation for the dance was a major artistic achievement of the Ancien regime France. This method of notation came to be used throughout Europe and facilitated the creation of a literary corpus on the dance that permitted contemporaries to perform dances they had never seen and consequently enables modern scholars to recreate achievements in dance which otherwise would have been forgotten. This manuscript documents the spread of Feuillet's notation to the Italian peninsula. The Newberry's collection on choreographic notation complements the Newberry's rich collections on the history of script, punctuation and musical notation.

Purchased from the bequest of Howard Mayer Brown and the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund.

Holtzmüller, Heinrich, Liber perutilis nunc primum editus continens formulas Latinorum & Germanica[rum] scripturaru[m] (Basel, 1551).
Vault Wing fZW 538 .H66

An extremely rare Swiss manual on calligraphic writing, replete with beautiful examples of over 35 scripts, some of them highly original. Includes a chapter on liturgical scripts with one of the earliest known illustrations of a raster, a special scribal tool for ruling musical staves. Only two recorded copies.

Gift of Roger and Julie Baskes and Robert Williams, supplemented by the Wing Book Fund.

Plan de la route de Paris en Bretagne par Dreux et Allençon (France, about 1770).
Vault Case MS 5312

A royal engineer's working map for the royal highway to Brittany that subsequently became known as Route nationale no. 12. The maps record planned road improvements.

Gift of Roger S. Baskes, Vincent Buonanno, Arthur Holzheimer, D. Carroll Joynes, and Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr., supplemented by the McNally Rare Map and Book Fund.

Saint-Sulpice Pamphlet Archive, [Recueil de pieces historiques] (ca. 1530-1800).
sc2762

The pamphlet archive is formed of 124 volumes containing 2,566 printed and manuscript pamphlets dating from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. This archive, largely assembled into its present form at the end of the eighteenth century, served as a major reference tool for the Sulpician order, founded in 1640. This order was simultaneously devoted to the Counter Reformation and the French monarchy, constituting a special French alternative to the Jesuits. The primary goal of the Sulpicians was the education of Catholic priests in France and in the French colonies. Organized alphabetically by the name of the person described in the individual pamphlet, the archive provides an unique biographical resource for scholars in quest of ephemera on the principal historical personae both in France and elsewhere in Europe during the Ancien Regime. First editions include short works by Guillaume Budé, Pascal, and Molière. Of the non-French titles, the Italian pamphlets are particularly important. The Newberry is exceptionally rich in ephemera from early modern Europe.

Purchased from the principal of the fund generated by the sale of duplicate and out-of-scope materials.

Stopp, Klaus, The Stopp Collection of German American Birth and Baptismal Certificates.

In December 2003 the Library acquired, at a generously established price and directly from the collector, the Klaus Stopp Collection of printed German American birth and baptismal certificates, often referred to as frakturs, dating from the 1780's to the early twentieth century. The Stopp Collection is an unparalleled assemblage of almost 1,300 discrete items. It will allow Newberry readers to trace the evolution of a uniquely American genre of document, from the era of artisanal production to modern lithography. The earliest Stopp certificates constitute an American transformation of the European art of manuscript illumination. In an age before photography, these beautiful objects served no juristic function, but rather constituted mementos of births that were all too often followed by premature deaths, some of which are noted on the birth certificates themselves. These certificates bear numerous poems devoted to the subject of death.

Professor Klaus Stopp is one of the twentieth century's most distinguished bibliographers and collectors of German maps and ephemera. His collection, carefully conserved, comes with his own extremely erudite published catalog, a work which is widely held and recognized as a fundamental reference tool. Professor Stopp was eager that the collection would come to an American institution that would preserve it as a bibliographic unit.

Purchased from the principal of the fund generated by the sale of duplicate and out-of-scope materials.