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The Bonaparte Collection In 1978 The Basque Studies Program began acquiring microfilm copies of material from the Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte Collection housed in the Newberry Library in Chicago, Illinois. Of the nearly 1,000 Basque items at the Newberry Library, nearly 725 are in the Bonaparte Collection which was brought together in the nineteenth century. To date we have received forty-eight reels of microfilm reproducing some five hundred volumes and periodicals. The 18th and 19th century texts deal primarily with Basque language and linguistics. The majority are bibles, missals and other devotional tracts. Many of the religious volumes appear in more than one Basque dialect, reflecting the Prince’s interest in Basque dialectology. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (1813-1891) was a linguist and is best known among Basque scholars for his linguistic atlas of the Basque provinces. |
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