The Andre Himpe Persius Collection
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The Himpe collection, assembled across two generations, is a wide-ranging assembly of fifteenth to nineteeth century editions of the widely imitated Roman satirist Aulus Flaccus Persius. It includes the known commentaries on the poems of Persius, translations into a modern language, and examples of the typography and layout history of this influential text from all areas of Europe, ranging in date from the 15th to the 19th century. This block acquisition numbers some 250 volumes including four incunables and many editions of the sixteenth century. Shown are the title pages of the 1494 Venice edition with commentaries by Giovanni Britannico and Bartolomeo Fonte (top) and of a 1528 Cologne edition with commentary by Johann Murmellius.
Purchased from the funds generated by the sale of duplicates and out-of-scope materials.
Manuscript map of the Ohio River with parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio.
CHS Collection, Map no. 814, folder 28
Manuscript map of the Ohio Valley, drawn in brown ink with red, yellow, purple and blue coloring. The maps key indicates locations of Friends meetings, "towns & county towns," "lands granted to Moravian Indians," "salt works," roads and "navigable waters." An example of the type of cartographic material purchased from the Chicago Historical Society (now renamed the Chicago History Museum) to further boost the Newberry's strong map holdings. This block acquisition numbers some 400 cartographic items that do not deal with Chicago or Illinois and were therefore considered out-of-scope for the Chicago Historical Society.
Purchased from the funds genereated by the sale of duplicates and out-of-scope materials.
Two sermons falsely attributed to Saint Augustine during the Middle Ages.
Case MS 200
These two manuscript fragments were written in northern Europe (perhaps Switzerland) in the second half of the 10th century. When acquired they formed the outer binding of a 17th century edition of a Jesuit commentary on Exodus, printed in Antwerp and subsequently bound in Berne. Conservation work at the Newberry revealed their highly legible patristic content (visible here), which varies significantly from the standard edition of Augustine's works.
Gift of Roger S. Baskes.
Gravina (Apuleia). [Documents pertaining to San Nicola de Protentyno in Gravina di Puglia], 1458-1617.
folio Case MS 5333
An "archive" of 25 original documents for the collegiate church of San Nicola, organized as a cartulary codex in the eighteenth century. A very early example of a genre of historical composite manuscripts that became highly important for historical research in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
Purchased on the Rosenthal Rare Book Fund.
Erasmus, Desiderius. Determinatio facultatis theologiae in schola Parisiensi super q[uam] plurimis assertionibus D. Erasmi Roterodami. [Paris]: Badius Ascensius, 1531.
Wing folio ZP 539 B173
Noel Breda (d. 1536), provost of the Sorbonne, was the author of the document condemning more than 200 propositions drawn from the writings of Erasmus. Erasmus, who closely followed the printing of his works, was an early employer of printed pagination (as opposed to foliation), and Breda in this condemnation accepts this innovation, citing Erasmus’s errors with page references.
Purchased on the Wing Fund.
Christine, de Pisan. Les Beaulx dicts et enseignements. Manuscript on vellum, dated Chartres, 1537.
Case MS 5326
A sixteenth-century copy of an important work of the greatest female poet of the Middle Ages. In addition to Pisan’s work, the codex contains a miscellany of poetical texts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a number of which have never been edited.
Joint acquisition with the University of Illinois (Champaign/Urbana), the Newberry portion supported by the Florence Gould Foundation and the Georges Lurcy Trust.
Beaulieu, Sieur de. Exemplaires du Sieur Beaulieu: ou sont monstrées fidellement toutes sorte de lettres et caracteres. Montpellier: Chez l’autheur, 1599.
Wing ZW 539 .B387
An extremely rare French calligraphic manual, a genre of book for which the Newberry’s collection is of international distinction. No other copy of this work is recorded in an American library. Our copy is currently being studied by a professor from the École des Chartes (Paris).
Purchased on the Wing Fund with generous support from the Florence Gould Foundation.
Calvin, Jean. Institutio Christianae religionis. Geneva: Francisci Perrini, 1569.
Case Wing BX 9420 .I58 1569
The Newberry already possessed a relatively pristine copy of this work but purchased this copy because of its copious and entirely different annotation, entered in the margins and on blank pages added specifically for this purpose when the volume was contemporaneously bound in pigskin.
Purchased on the Brown/Weiss and Rosenthal Rare Book Funds.
Dominicans. Provincia de Santiago de Mexico. Acta capituli provincialis celebrati in nostro angelopolitano S.P.N. Dominici conventu die 24 Maij anno Dñi 1710. Mexico: Haeredes viduae Francisci Rodriguez Lupercio, 1710.
Ayer BX3512.S35 D6 1710
A report of the activities of Dominican friars in Mexico with details of their work with the Mixtec and Chochona Indians. Printed in a very limited edition primarily for the friaries of the province, this pamphlet is unrecorded in any American library.
Purchased on the Ayer Rare Book Fund.
Indian Captivity. K., D. On the deliverance of Hugh Gibson a captive with the Indians 2 years & 10 months. Manuscript, 1770.
Case MS 5327
An eight-stanza poem submitted for publication in a Baltimore, MD, area newspaper on the liberation from captivity of a certain Hugh Gibson from Indians in Pennsylvania some ten years earlier. An unique addition to the Ayer Collection’s famous holdings of captivity narratives. The events described occurred in 1756-1759.
Purchased on the Martin Book Fund.
Croquis ou plan figuratif de l’arpentage fait le 25 November 1774... Manuscript map, Illinois, 1774.
Map 4F G4103 .K3G46 1774 C7
Surveyor’s plat of French “long lots” on the Mississippi, probably near Kaskaskia or Prairie du Rocher. Cartographic manuscripts frm this period of Illinois history are exceptionally rare.
Purchased on the McNally Fund.
American Revolution. A list of all the officers of the army... London: War Office, 1781.
Ruggles 438
Major General Alexander Leslie’s personal copy. Leslie commanded the 63rd and 64th Regiments of British foot soldiers active in North America from before the Boston Tea Party until 1782. This unique artifact is annotated with promotions in rank and by marking certain names “dead,” or “killed,” sometimes including the battle in which they died.
Purchased on the Ruggles Rare Book Fund.
J. Goldsborough Bruff. Map Of The Seat Of War In Mexico. New York: J. Disturnell, 1847.
Map 6F G4411 1847 .B7
This printed map is a copy of Mexican General Arista's manuscript map, taken at the battle of Resaca de la Palma. This good luck provided the U.S. with geographic information they had not previously possesed.
Gift of Arthur Holzheimer.
Prarie Flower. Pleasant Valley, Illinois Oct 18th 1849. Vol. 1. No. 2[-4], 1849.
Midwest MS 38
This manuscript literary journal contains original works and copies of popular fiction. This interesting example of rural literary culture was accompanied by a manuscript diary which was written by a pioneer woman in Wisconsin and Illinois during 1841-1842 who was involved in the production of the Prarie Flower.
Gift of William Murray Underwood.
African-American Church Records. China Grove, North Carolina. Presbyterian Church. Minutes of the Session of the Presbyterian Church of China Grove, Harnett County, North Carolina, organized in March 1836. Manuscript, 1860-1894.
Case MS 5336
Records include admissions and baptisms of both whites and blacks, 1836-1894. White members are listed in alphabetical order by surname, colored communicants are listed by first name and the name of their owner, with the exception of the last three admitted in 1870 and 1873, for whom given names and surnames are given.
Purchased on a Library Services and Technology grant awarded by the State of Illinois for African American Family History.
Malcolm Cowley, Diary from August 16, 1918.
Midwest MS Cowley
Purchased from the principal of the fund generated by the sale of duplicate and out-of-scope materials.
Torres-Garcia, Joaquín. La tradición del hombre abstracto (doctrina constructivista). Montevideo: Publicaciones de la Asociación de Arte Constructivista, 1938.
Wing ZP 994 .T35
An important Latin American artist’s book by a leading proponent of the avant-garde in Latin America. Its purchase reflects the Newberry’s commitment to collecting fine press books including examples from outside the Anglo-Saxon and Western European traditions.
Purchased on the Wing Fund.
