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Collections Spotlight, Summer 2024

May 21 through September 8, 2024

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

Historia scholastica.

Created

France, second half of 12th cent.

Display Date

second half of 12th cent.

Accession number

MS M.1159

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Carbon copy of a typed letter : New York, to J. D. Salinger, 1985 Dec. 25.

Carden, Priscilla.

1985 Dec. 25.

MA 8656.27

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Typed copy of a letter : New York, to J. D. Salinger, 1993 Jan. 2.

Carden, Priscilla.

1993 Jan. 2.

MA 8656.36

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Bible (MS M.889).

Created

North Germany, perhaps Magdeburg, ca. 1100.

Display Date

ca. 1100.

Accession number

MS M.889

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT JIM DINE'S IMPORTANT "GLYPTOTEK DRAWINGS" FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK

Press release date

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Jim Dine's series of extraordinary drawings inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture and sourced primarily at the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Germany will receive its first New York showing in a new exhibition opening May 20 at The Morgan Library & Museum.

Press

Press release date

Thursday, January 23, 2025

The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to announce its schedule of exhibitions for 2025.

Press

Plein Air Sketching in the North

December 11, 2018 through August 25, 2019

During the second half of the eighteenth century, the practice of using oil paint on paper while working outdoors became popular among landscape artists.