About Us
The Center for Renaissance Studies promotes the use of the Newberry collection by graduate students and postgraduate scholars in the fields of medieval, Renaissance, and early modern studies
Founded in 1979, the center works with an international consortium of universities in North America and Europe. It offers a wide range of scholarly programs and digital and print publications based in the Newberry collections, and provides a locus for a community of scholars who come from all over the world to use the library’s early manuscripts, printed books, and other materials.
Emblematica Online is an online resource initiated collaboratively by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the Herzog-August Bibliothek (HAB) in Wolfenbüttel with generous support form the National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Research Foundation (DFG). It supports the discovery of and access to digitized emblem resources from more than a half dozen major emblem book collections, by making freely accessible premiere emblem collections of world-wide prominence from UIUC, HAB, Glasgow University, Utrecht University, Duke University, and the Library of the Getty Research Institute. A key part of the present research project, the Newberry Library’s unique copy of Emblematica Politica has been integrated into Emblematica Online. This open access research site allows for search and discovery at the level of both individual emblems and entire books, offering access to 1,400 rare Renaissance emblem books and 30,000 individually indexed emblems for research and pedagogy.
Contributors
Project Conveners
Mara R. Wade, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lia Markey, Newberry Library
Christopher D. Fletcher, Newberry Library
Newberry Contributors
Matthew Clarke, Digital Initiatives and Services
Catherine Gass, Digital Initiatives and Services
Melissa Griffith, Digital Initiatives and Services
Matt Krc, Digital Initiatives and Services
Claire Ptaschinski, Center for Renaissance Studies
Jen Wolfe, Digital Initiatives and Services
UIUC Contributors
Andrew Schwenk, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Jessica Wells, Department of Classics
Timothy W. Cole, University Library
Myung-Ja K. Han, University Library
Transcriptions and Translations
The transcriptions of the Latin and German text of Wing MS 279 were made by Andrew Schwenk and Jessica Wells under the supervision of Mara R. Wade.
The translation of the early modern German text was made by Andrew Schwenk with assistance from Mara R. Wade.
For the conventions followed in producing these transcriptions and translations, see the Introduction.
Contact Information
The creators of this resource hope that it will be a gateway for scholars and members of the general public to engage with Rem's manuscript, early modern emblems, and the Newberry collection.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions regarding this resource, please direct them to the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies at renaissance@newberry.org.
For general questions about the Newberry and its collections, please contact a librarian here.
