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Featured This Month: Religion

Latin Vulgate Bible, manuscript on parchment copied in France, probably central France, ca. 1250, formerly in the library of the Dominican friars of Clermont-Ferrand

Latin Vulgate Bible

The production of portable Latin Bibles was standardized at the University of Paris in about 1235, and these Parisian Bibles, with their conventional order of Biblical books and specific form of modern chapter division, subsequently became models for small-format Bibles copied throughout France in the mid-thirteenth century.

Klaus Stopp. Printed birth and baptismal certificates of German Americans. c.1820. Klaus Stopp Collection # 185 (vol.2, p. 30).

Religion

The Newberry collection for religion focuses on sources from Europe and the Americas, from the late Middle Ages through the early 20th century.

Second Presbyterian Church, from Chicago Illustrated. Graff 3747.

Chicago Church and Synagogue Records

This research guide is available as a PDF file. The guide is intended to help researchers locate Chicago congregational histories and records at the Newberry Library and other repositories. It is not a list of every church or synagogue that has existed in Chicago; rather, it is a guide to locating records of Chicago congregations past and present.

Flight into Egypt, from Heures de Nostre Dame selonc lusaige de Rome. c.1400. Case MS 188.

Religion – Reference Sources

Core Collections

The Newberry collections focus on the humanities. Please also browse our Research Guides and check our Online Catalog.

American History and Culture

American Indian and Indigenous Studies

Chicago and the Midwest

Genealogy and Local History

History of the Book

Manuscripts and Archives

Maps, Travel, and Exploration

Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies

Music

Religion

Digital Resources

Civil War in Art

This project aims to provide a more complete understanding of the complex nexus of issues, events, and people that contributed to the causes and effects of the Civil War.

Politics, Piety, and Poison: French Pamphlets, 1600-1800

This exhibition displays French pamphlets published from about 1600 to the French Revolution, they form the foundation for current and future scholarly projects.

Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico

This virtual exhibition is based on The Aztecs and the Making of Colonial Mexico, a display of original manuscripts, books, and other materials at the Newberry from September 28, 2006 through January 13, 2007. The virtual exhibit includes the complete text from the original gallery exhibit and digitized images of many of the manuscripts and books that were displayed.

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