The Gruber Collection is a collection of books and manuscripts housed at the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in
Chicago
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, Illinois. The collection contains more than 300 books from the 15th to 18th centuries and 14 manuscripts of Greek New Testament (minuscules and lectionaries). The collection contains a number of works with special value, including those of
Luther, copies of his letters, original letters written by
Philipp Melanchthon
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, the
Greek New Testament of Erasmus, and other documents of
Reformation
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era.
All manuscripts and majority of books were collected by
L. Franklin Gruber (1870–1941), the former president of the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in
Maywood, Illinois
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History
There was limited European-Am ...
.
[
He purchased them in Europe and brought to Chicago.
]
Manuscripts
* Gruber 44 (Gregory 1282)
* Gruber 50 (Gregory 2304)
* Gruber 52 (Gregory ℓ ''1536'')
* Gruber 53 (Gregory ℓ ''1624'')
* Gruber 56 (Gregory ℓ ''1625'')
* Gruber 111 (Gregory ℓ ''1677'')
* Gruber 114 (Gregory 2426)
* Gruber 119 (Gregory 2389)
* Gruber 122 (Gregory 2393)
* Gruber 124 (Gregory ℓ ''1627'')
* Gruber 125 (Gregory ℓ ''1628'')
* until 2016: Gruber 152 (Gregory 1424)[In 2016, the LSTC decided to restitute the manuscript to the Kosinitza monaster]
''Hyde Park seminary to return 9th century New Testament to Greek Orthodox Church''
Chicago Tribune
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, November 15, 2016
References
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Further reading
* Kenneth W. Clark, "A Descriptive Catalogue of Greek New Testament Manuscripts in North America". Chicago: '' The University of Chicago Press'', 1937, pp. 90–106.
External links
The Gruber Rare Books Collection
at the LSTC
New Testament manuscripts
at the LSTC
Book collecting
Greek New Testament manuscripts
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago