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Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In seven books. Exemplified, in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countreys, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching and limning, ... the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the antients; ... The whole doctrine of perfumes (never published till now,) together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting: and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy. To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies. The fifth edition: ... Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures; ... by William Salmon, ...

Salmon, William, 1644-1713.

London : printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, MDCLXXXV. [1685]

PML 129584

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Seated Male Nude

Guercino

1591-1666

1643

1970.12

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

[Saints connected with the House of Habsburg].

Beck, Leonhard, approximately 1480-1542, illustrator.

[Augsburg] : [s.n.], [1522-1551]

PML 20579

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

De continentia (MS M.881).

Created

Italy, near Mantua, ca. 1100-1110.

Display Date

ca. 1100-1110.

Accession number

MS M.881

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Collections Spotlight, Summer 2023

June 6 through September 17, 2023

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

A memorandum to London, occasioned by the pestilence there begun this present year MDCLXV, and humbly offered to the Lord Maior, aldermen and commonalty of the said city. By George Wither. Thereto is by him added, a Warning-piece to London, discharged out of a loophole in the Tower, upon meditating the deplorable fier, which consumed the house of an eminent citizen, with all the persons and goods therein, at the beginning of our most joyful festival, in December, 1662. Also, A single sacrifice offered to Almighty God, by the same author in his lonely confinement, for prevention of the dearth feared, and probably portended, by immoderate raines in June and July, 1663 ... Moreover, in regard many have reported and believed this author to be dead; we have annexed his Epitaph, made by himself upon that occasion.

Wither, George, 1588-1667.

[London] 1665.

PML 6603

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Truth brought to light by time : the proceedings touching the divorce between the Lady Frances Howard, and Robert Earl of Essex, before the King's delegates, George Canterbury, John Bishop of London, Lancelot Bishop of Ely, Richard Bishop of Litchfeild and Coventry, Doctor Cæsar, Thomas Parrey, Dr. Donne, John Bennet, Francis James and Thomas Edwards, authorized under the King's broad-seal, with his majesty's answer. Also, The arraignment of Sir Jervis Yelvis lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Thomas Monson Kt., Anne Turner widow, Richard Weston, and James Francklin, &c. : Touching the murthering and poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury Kt. his majesty's prisoner in the Tower : with all their examinations, arraignments, evidences, confessions, answers and tryals, with their sentence and sufferings, with his majesty's gracious pardon and favour to the countess.

London : Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1692.

PML 37296

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The Little Prince: Manuscript and Drawings

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944), Le petit prince, New York and Ashroken: autograph manuscript, ca. July–Oct. 1942, MA 2592 (manuscript) and MA 2592.1-35 (full-page drawings)