EXTRAORDINARY FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT IS THE CENTERPIECE OF A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

Press release date: 
Thursday, February 28, 2008

LE LIVRE DE LA CHASSE IS AMONG THE EARLIEST AND MOST FAMOUS TEXTS DETAILING "THE SPORT OF KINGS"

Illuminating the Medieval Hunt
April 18 through August 10, 2008

** Press Preview: Thursday, April 17, 2008, 10 a.m. until noon **

A new exhibition featuring nearly fifty miniatures from the Morgan's celebrated hunting manuscript by Gaston Phoebus (1331–1391), Le Livre de la chasse (Paris, ca. 1407), is on view at from April 18 through August 10, 2008.