What is the seminar?

Fall semester seminar & topic in fall 2008

Winter/spring short-term seminars

Quotes from program alumni

The Library and its collection

Chicago -- a great city

Academic info: eligibility & credit

Costs, housing & how to apply

Contact: campus program advisors, ACM office

Opportunities for faculty

     
     

The Newberry's collections

Europe

Starting with medieval manuscripts, European history and literature are well represented in the Newberry's collections. It is particularly strong in Renaissance era material.

Edition of Virgil

(Click on the pictures to see larger versions.)

Left: Detail of gold initial from an edition of Virgil.

Right: Medieval manuscript, with two columns of text and two illuminations. From Flanders, 1455, formerly in the library of Philip the Good of Burgundy.

Medieval manuscript
Greek text

Left: Greek text (printed in 1539).

Right: A Shakespeare first filio (1623).

Shakespeare first folio
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