THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT MASTERPIECES FROM OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S FAMED BODLEIAN LIBRARY

Press release date: 
Friday, April 18, 2014

The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford holds one of the greatest collections of books and manuscripts in the world. Marks of Genius: Treasures from the Bodleian Library, on view at the Morgan Library & Museum from June 6 to September 14, celebrates more than two thousand years of the creative genius of authors, composers, artists, scientists, and philosophers preserved in the library’s rich holdings. The exhibition includes items from cultures the world over and ranges from a papyrus fragment of a seventh-century B.C. Sappho poem to a copy of Magna Carta dating to 1217 to key works by novelist Jane Austen.

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