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Missale Romanum, ex decreto sacrosancti concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum.

Lyon : Guillaume Roville, 1586.

PML 76387

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books
Berosi Chaldaei Sacerdotis Reliquorumque consimilis argumenti autorum, De antiquitate Italiae, ac totius orbis / cum F. Ioan. Annij Viterbensis Theologi commentatione, & auxesi, ac verborum rerumque memorabilium indice plenissimo, tomus prior

Nanni, Giovanni, 1432?-1502, author.

Lugduni : Apud Ioannem Temporalem, 1555

PML 199039

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books
Svetonivs Tranqvillvs cvm Philippi Beroaldi et Marci Antonii Sabellici commentariis.

Suetonius, approximately 69-approximately 122.

PML 128200

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
Discours historial de l'antique et illustre cité de Nismes, en la Gaule Narbonoise : avec les portraitz des plus antiques & insignes bastimens dudit lieu, reduitz à leur vraye mesure & proportion, ensemble de l'antique & moderne ville / par Iean Poldo d'Albenas.

Poldo d'Albenas, Jean, 1512-1563.

A Lyon : Par Guillaume Rouille, 1560.

PML 76177

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Book

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Printed Books

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Comincia la comedia di dante alleghieri di Firenze nella q[ua]le tracta delle pene et punicioni de uicii et demeriti et premii delle uirtu.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

PML 378

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Incunable Collection

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Printed Books
Book of hours (MS M.815).

Created

Paris, France, between 1471 and 1485

Accession number

MS M.815

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Manuscript

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
A new booke of destillatyon of waters, called the Treasure of Evonymvs : containing the wonderful hid secrets of nature, touching the most apt formes to prepare & destill Medicines, for the conseruation of helth, as quintessence : Aurum Potabile, Hyppocras, aromaticall wynes, balmes, oyles, perfumes, garnishing waters & other manifold excellent confections ... / translated (with great dilligence, & labour) out of Latin, by Peter Morwyng felowe of Magdaline Colledge in Oxforde : wherunto is added a profitable table or Index for the better finding of al such waters as serue aswel for medicines, as also for the principal matters or other, conteyned in the booke.

Gesner, Konrad, 1516-1565.

Imprinted at London : By Iohn Day, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saynt Martines, Cum priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis June 1, 1565.

PML 38771

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Book

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Printed Books

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A Form of prayer, to be used upon the twelfth of June : in all churches and chappels within the cities of London and Westminster, the suburbs of each, and the burrough of Southwark : upon the ninetenth of the said moneth, in all other churches and chappels within the rest of His Majesties Dominions ... : being the several days appointed for a general fast, to be kept in the respective places, for the averting those sicknesses and diseases, that dearth and scarcity which justly may be feared from the late immoderate rain and waters, for a thanksgiving also for the blessed change of weather ...

London : Printed by John Bill and Christopher Barker ..., 1661.

PML 7773

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Book

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Printed Books

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The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or, Pocket director : Containing, sixty different designs, entirely new and useful, forty of which are gothic, Chinese, mosaic and ornamental frets, proper for friezes, imposts, architraves, tabernacle frames, book-cases, tea tables, tea stands, trays, stoves, and fenders. And twenty new and beautiful designs for gothic, modern and ornamental fan-lights for over-doors, in the most elegant taste. / Calculated for the universal use of carpenters, joyners, cabinet-makers, masons, plaisterers, smiths, &c. &c. And intended to assist the nobility and gentry in their choice. The whole designed and engraved by John Crunden, architect.

Crunden, John, ca. 1745-1835.

London : Printed for the author: and sold by Henry Webley in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1765.

PML 53039

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Book

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Printed Books

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Collections Spotlight, Spring 2023

February 14 through June 4, 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.

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