Goodspeed New Testament Collection

Moses receiving the Law (miniature). Goodspeed New Testament Manuscript Collection, gntms965-016, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.

The Goodspeed Collection of New Testament Manuscripts is part of the Digital Collection at The University of Chicago Library. During the first half of the 20th century, Edgar J. Goodspeed helped the library obtain 65 items that range in date from the 7th to the 19th centuries. As new technologies become available, the library has placed the collection online in digital form.

You can visit the collection and "thumb" your way through two breath-taking illuminated New Testaments. On the left-hand side of the collection's homepage, click on either Ms. 965, Rockefeller McCormick (from which the above image comes) or Ms. 972, The Archaic Mark.

Other links on the homepage will tell you about the collection and its history.