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The American reader : a selection of lessons for reading and speaking, wholly from American authors : embracing a great variety of entertaining subjects of history, biography, divinity, laws, natural and moral philosophy, and of other branches of useful and elegant learning : furnishing numerous specimens of American eloquence, from the Presidential chair, the head quarters of the military commander, the seat in Congress, the pulpit on various occasions, the bench of the judge, the bar, station of literary honor, the seat of the muses, and from the shade of private life : containing rules for the proper use of the pauses, for graceful and persuasive pronunciation, and for appropriate and impressive gesture, to improve the scholar in reading and speaking, while enriching the mind with religious, virtuous, and useful knowledge : with an appendix of definitions of the words in this book most difficult for youth to understand : designed for the use of schools / by Joseph Richardson.

Richardson, Joseph, 1778-1871.

Boston : Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, 1810.

PML 85613

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Book

Department

Printed Books

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Cest la vie de monseigneur sainct albain, roy de hongrie et martir.

PML 41005

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Leonardo Aretini De bello Italico aduersus Gothos.

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444, author, translator.

PML 377

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Recuyell of the historyes of Troye.

Lefèvre, Raoul, active 1460.

PML 771

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
St. John the Baptist Preaching in the Wilderness

Andrea Schiavone

ca. 1500-1563

IV, 80

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Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Strategic Plan

This year marks a century since the Morgan Library & Museum’s founding in 1924. It is staggering to think of how much the world, New York City, and the Morgan have changed since then. Once the personal library of the financier J.
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations

December 1, 2006, through March 4, 2007

Saul Steinberg: Illuminations featured more than one hundred drawings, collages, and sculptural assemblages by the artist whom many regard as not only a comic genius but among the greatest draftsmen of the modern era.

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Antiphonary (MS M.682).

Created

Milan, Italy, ca. 1470-1495.

Accession number

MS M.682

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Kyriale-Sequentiary and other texts (MS M.683).

Created

Milan, Italy, ca. 1496-1497.

Accession number

MS M.683

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Antiphonary (MS M.684).

Created

Milan, Italy, ca. 1470-1495.

Accession number

MS M.684

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts