Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center Digital Resources

• Goodspeed Manuscript Collection

• Rose & Chess: Le Roman de la Rose & Le Jeu des échecs moralisé

The University of Chicago Library’s manuscripts of Le Roman de la Rose (The Romance of the Rose) and Le Jeu des échecs moralisé (The Moralized Game of Chess) were bound together, perhaps soon after they were created, and stayed together for over 500 years. In 1907 they were disbound and sent their separate ways. By bringing them back together, The University of Chicago Library has made it possible for scholars to study the two manuscripts together to learn about their shared origin and production history.

• Other digitized early manuscripts:
  • Miracula sanctae Virginis Mariae, et. al.
  • Les Narbonnais chanson de geste
  • Boccaccio, Genealogia deorum gentilium
  • Bracciolini, Orationes in Laurentium Vallam

• Early Western Manuscripts pre-1700 (links to full pdfs in finding aids)

• Manuscript collections with digitized pre-1700 manuscripts (links to images in finding aids)
  • Archicofradía del Santísimo Sacramento y Caridad. Records
  • Butler-Gunsaulus. Collection
  • Juxon, William. Collection
  • Raphael. Spurious Letters (undated, forgeries)
  • Salloch, William and Marianne, Collection of Prints and Drawings: “People with Books.”
  • Schaffner, Joseph Halle, Collection in the History of Science
  • Sir Nicholas Bacon Collection of English Court and Manorial Documents