Ogerius de Locedio, Sermones de cena Domini.
Vault Case MS 204

A rare copy of the entire corpus of these Cistercian sermons in original format as a collection of texts, intended for meditative reading (and not for oral delivery). Northern Italy, ca. 1400. Manuscript on parchment.

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

Verbal concordance of the Latin Vulgate
Vault folio Case MS 205

Folio sized fragment of a manuscript biblical concordance consisting of one bifolium, that formed the outer leaf of a quire including parts of the sections for the letters I and U. Italy, 14th century. An important witness to the dissemination into Italy of the scholastic mode of access to the Bible that had been invented in about 1200 in Paris and England.

Gift of Susan and David Barron.

Nicolas de Lyra. Positilla super totam Bibliam [Nurenberg: Koberger, 1481].
Vault oversize Inc 1998

The first illustrated edition of De Lyra's exposition of the literal historical meaning of Scripture, the most popular commentary on the Bible in the late Middle Ages. De Lyra (c. 1270-1349), a Franciscan friar and probably of Jewish birth, drew heavily from rabbinic sources, notably Rashi (d. 1105) not only for textual content, but also illustrations. In the sixteenth century, De Lyra's radical political views won him favor among German and French Protestants.

Joint Acquisition with Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Newberry portion supported by gifts from Rudy L. Ruggles, Jr. Roger S. Baskes, the Altman Family Foundation and William and Joan Brodsky.

Bible. O. T. Naum cum commentariis R. David Kimhi, à Francisco Vatablo, Hebraicarum literarium Regio professore, summa cura & diligentia recognitis. [Parisiis: Ex Officina Roberti Stephani, typographii Regii, 1539.]
Vault Baskes BS715 1539

Additions to the Baskes Collection include not only important atlases that form the focus of the collection, but Bibles (including this important 16th-century impressions in Hebrew) as well as classical texts illustrated by maps.

This volume forms part of Robert Estienne's Quinque libri legis... Parisiis, 1539-1544 in 24 parts, a monument of sixteenth century Protestant erudition.

Gift of Roger Baskes.

Recusationschrifft der christlichen Augspurgischen Confessions verwandten Stende...[Magdeburg: Zu Nürnberg im 1546 Jar zuuorn ausgangen vnd itzt wider nachgedruckt durch Michael Lotther zu Magdeburg, anno 1551.]
Case BX 8069 .A2 1551

An expanded edition of the 1546 Protestant writ refusing to participate in the Council of Trent. In 1551, after the Protestant defeat in the Schmalkaldic War, Protestant delegates were obliged to attend the reconvened Council of Trent. Added material in this edition declares that the Protestant presence at Trent did not make the Council legitimate, but calls instead for a new council to be convened in Germany.

Gift of Lydia G. Cochrane, supplemented by the Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Rare Book Fund.

Giovanni Animuccia's Canticum B. Mariae Virginis, a Io. Animuccia Urbis Basilicae S. Petri Magistro ad omnes modos factum. [Romae: Apud Haeredes Valerij [et] Aloysij Doricorum fratrum Brixiensium, 1568.]
Vault Case oversize M 2079 .L6 A65 1568

Animuccia, a native of Florence, was the most important Roman contemporary to Palestrina whose work he influenced. This is the first and only edition of these 20 magnificats; no other copy is recorded in North America (most of Animuccia's works are preserved only in manuscript). In addition to its musical content, never re-edited, this volume is a monument of sixteenth-century music printing. It contains an important woodcut of the Visitation, in which chant books with printed and added manuscript micro-musical notation are depicted.

Purchased on the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund.

Calligraphy, historical examples. [The Netherlands, 1674.]
Vault folio Wing MS 198

Jacob den Blaeuwen's untitled calligraphic manuscript is an important addition to our internationally recognized rich holdings of calligraphic manuscript model books. On paper.

Gift of an anonymous donor complemented by the John M. Wing Book Fund.

Recueil de contre-danses nouveles [sic] françaises et allemandes: avec les figures et descriptions, composées par les meilleurs maîtres des quelles ont étés dansées [sic] au Vauxhall et a la salle du S. Torré... [Paris: Chez Mr. Boüin, md. de musique et de cordes d'instruments, rue St. Honoré au Gagne-Petit, pres St. Roch a côté des Ecuries de Monseigneur: Melle. Castagnery rue des Prouvaires a la Musique Royale, between 1769 and 1783.]
200512012 on order

A publisher's composite collection of 30 discrete contre-dances and two extremely rare catalogs prepared by the publisher, Boüin,. This volume complements the Library's important holdings in eighteenth-century dance notation.

Purchased on the Brown/Weiss Rare Book Fund.

Jesuitica. Typus Religionis. Estampe du tableau dans l’église des ci-devant soi-disans Jesuites de Billon in Auvergne, d’an 1762. Copper engraving. [Paris, 1762].
In process

A “graphic” broadside based on a painting of the sixteenth or early seventeenth century glorifying the Jesuit fathers as directing both church and state, here used to discredit them and to justify their expulsion from the realm of France.

Joint Acquisition with Loyola University of Chicago. The Newberry portion supported by the Society of Collectors.

Jesuitica. Recueil A-Z. [Fontenoy, Luxembourg, Brussels, Amsterdam, 1745-1762].
In process

A superb copy of a 24-volume set of documents published to provide original source materials (1580-1751) for historians. The owner of this copy chose to have bound into his set a supplement 202 original printed pamphlets and government documents, numerous of which deal with the expulsion of the Jesuit order from France, Spain, Portugal and a number of Italian states. The authors represented include first editions of Diderot and Voltaire.

Joint Acquisition with Loyola University of Chicago. The Newberry portion supported by the Society of Collectors.

Jesuitica. Pyramide dressée devant la porte du pallais a Paris (dating probably from the eighteenth century).
In process

A broadside accusing the Jesuits of responsibility for the assassination of Henry IV, probably printed or reprinted to justify the expulsion of the Jesuits from France.

Joint Acquisition with Loyola University of Chicago. The Newberry portion supported by the Society of Collectors.

Jesuitica. Joseph Nicolas Lombard. Theses ex universa philosophia [Reims, 1738].
In process

The theses of a student in the College of Reims, Lombard, published (in conformity with traditions dating back to the Middle Ages) as a broadside. The accompanying engraved image depicting the Jesuit martyrs in Canada is unrelated to the text of Lombard’s dissertation.

Joint Acquisition with Loyola University of Chicago. The Newberry portion supported by the Society of Collectors.

Jesuitica. Compendio geografico que contiene los Establicementos de los Jesuitas... [Madrid?, 1768-1773].
In process

Colored broadside representing the Jesuit order as a genealogical tree diagram. The broken branches represent those nations (and their colonial dominions) from which the Jesuit order had been expelled. The covert houses of the Jesuits in the Netherlands are represented. This broadside was likely published secretly in Spain (where the Jesuit order had been expelled).

Gift of the Society of Collectors.

Historical engraving.
Vault Case Wing oversize RG 520 .H9 1774

William Hunter's Anatomia uteri humani gravidi tabulis illustrata, auctore Gulielmo Hunter...The anatomy of the human gravid uterus exhibited in figures. [Printed at Birmingham: By J. Baskerville; Sold in London: By S. Baker and G. Leigh, in York Street, T. Cadell in the Strand, D. Wilson and G. Nicol, opposite York Buildings, and J. Murray, in Fleet-Street, 1774.]

John Baskerville was the most distinguished private printer of the eighteenth century. The Newberry's collection of his publications is excellent. This volume of great import for the history of medical illustration fills an important lacuna.

Gift of Albert B. & Melvin V. Gerbie.

Stopp addition 2006
In process

In December 2003 the Library acquired, 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. This eighteenth-century piece is a new addition to that collection, which the Library continues to build.

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

Jigsaw puzzle of the County of Norfolk. [London: J. Cary, engraver & map seller, 1793; the puzzle ca. 1810-1819 by William Darton, Jr.]
2006041354 on order

This unrecorded map puzzle was created by one of the major English children's book publishers of the early nineteenth century from an eighteenth-century printed map of the county of Norfolk, laminated onto wood and cut into puzzle pieces. It is housed in its original box and complements other map games and puzzles in the Newberry's collections.

Purchased on the Holzheimer Fund.

George Henry Goddard's Britton & Rey's map of the state of California. [San Francisco: Britton & Rey, 1858].
map3C G 4360 1858 .G6

A hitherto unrecorded edition of the most accurate and complete map of California and its gold regions. It is the first map to accurately locate Lake Tahoe. This edition was "issued after the adjournment of the [California] legislature 1858," and includes significant variants from the first edition of 1857.

Gift of Roger S. Baskes and Arthur Holzheimer.

The Magnetic Almanac for 1865. [Buffalo, NY: D. Ransom & Co., 1864]. .
Ayer AY64 .M245 1865

The Magnetic Almanac, a rare Civil War-era medical almanac, includes all the typical content of such publications. But it includes an elaborate six-page advertisement written in the form of a captivity narrative. The "Rescue of Tula" describes Dr. Cunard's rescue of the Aztec princess from the Navajos. His reward is the secret of the Mountain Herb Pills that “will purify and cleanse as sure as the sun will rise to-morrow.”

Purchased on the Edward E. Ayer Fund.

Chicago Fire Photos, 1871
In process

A group of 5 photographs made in the immediate aftermath of the Chicago fire of 1871. The photos were made from small negatives printed on thin paper, with manuscript annotations on the verso possibly by Eliza Allen Starr, Chicago artist and author. One of them shows a greenhouse, which survived the fire. The image on the left is of the First Presbyterian Church on Wabash.

Gift of Mary Hawks.

Franklin and Penelope Rosemont Collection of IWW Publications and Ephemera
Case folio HD 8055 .I4 R67

Pamphlets, fliers, periodicals, books, convention minutes and proceedings, stickers, song books, official documents, and other ephemera created by the IWW and other related organizations and members. The collection contains many of the IWW’s essential printed documents from the crucial years 1905-1935, as well as some of its later literature. Included are classic IWW pamphlets and magazines, volumes of convention minutes, and several editions of the IWW’s famous “Little Red Song Book.”

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

Polish Women's Alliance of America Archive.
Archive is being processed

This extensive archive is composed of the insurance records of members of the Polish Women's Alliance dating from 1898 to the mid-20th century and supporting materials. It is a rich source for genealogical information on female immigrants from Poland and documents Polish- American communities in Chicago and across the United States.

Gift of the Polish Women's Alliance of America.

E. McD Johnstone's West by south, half south. [Buffalo, N.Y.: Matthews, Northrup & Co., 1890.]
Ayer folio F 785.3 .J65 1890

This rare travel guide for points between Louisiana and Southern California, was apparently published by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. It is a good example of the type of travel and description literature that is found within the Ayer Collection and throughout the Library. It also complements our three major railroad archives.

Purchased on the North America Ayer Fund.