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Hagiographic and Homiletic Miscellany (MS M.596).

Created

Egypt, 871-872.

Accession number

MS M.596

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
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August 18, 2021 through January 9, 2022

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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Myrrour of the worlde.

PML 703

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Historia rerum ubique gestarum.

Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.

PML 315

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
XL homiliarum in Evangelia libri duo.

Created

Rhineland, Germany, second half of 12th century.

Accession number

MS M.1156

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
La science pratique de l'imprimerie : contenant des instructions trés-faciles pour se perfectionner dans cet art. On y trouvera une description de toutes les pièces dont une presse est construite, avec le moyen de remedier à tous les défauts qui peuvent y survenir. Avec une méthode nouvelle & fort aisée pour imposer toutes sortes d'impositions, depuis l'in-folio jusqu'à l'in-cent-vingt-huit ... Tables pour sçavoir ce que les caracteres inferieurs regagnent sur ceux qui leur sont superieurs, & un tarif pour trouver ... combien de formes contiendra une copie à imprimer ...

Fertel, Martin-Dominique, 1684-1752

À Saint Omer : Par Martin Dominique Fertel ; et se vend a Paris : Chez Ph. N. Lottin, 1741.

PML 128495

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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La vraye et parfaite science des armoiries, ou, l'Indice armorial de feu maistre Louvan Geliot ... : apprenant et expliquant sommairement les mots & figures dont on se sert au blason des armoiries, & l'origine d'icelles ; augmenté de nombre de termes, & enrichy de grande multitude d'exemples des armes des familles tant francoises qu'estrangeres, des institutions des ordres & de leurs colliers, des marques des dignités & charges, des ornemens des escus, de l'office des roys, des herauds, & des poursuivans d'armes, & autres curiosités despendantes des armoiries / par Pierre Palliot.

Palliot, Pierre, 1608-1698.

Dijon : Chez ledit Pierre Palliot, 1660.

PML 126351

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Nova Francia, or The description of that part of New France, which is one continent with Virginia : described in the three late voyages and plantation made by Monsieur de Monts, Monsieur du Pont-Graué and Monsieur de Poutriucourt, into the countries called by the French-men La Cadie, lying to the South west of Cape Breton : together with an excellent seuerall treatie of all the commodities of the said countries, and maners of the naturall inhabitants of the same / [Marc Lescarbot] ; translated out of French into English by P.E.

Lescarbot, Marc.

London : G. Bishop, 1609.

PML 3435

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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The delight of the humourous : come then, my friend----my genius, come along. At Sadler's Wells booth, opposite the Cheese Fair in Stirbich Fair, will be exhibited the usual diversions of Sadler's Wells, consisting of several curious bodily performances. Likewise Miss Wakelin's amazing performances. ... By a company of fancy ticklers, some with heads right, and some with heels light. By the latter some tumbling a-la-mode a-flip-flop ... To which will be added an entertaining interlude, called The wife well managed: or a Cure for cuckoldom ...

Cambridge : Printed by Sarah James near the Senate-House, [between 1758 and 1766]

PML 19327, leaf 092

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Le magnifique chasteau de Richelieu, en general et en particulier, ou, Les plans, les elevations, et porfils [sic] generaux et particuliers dudit chasteau : et de ses auenuës, basses-courts, anti-courts, courts, corps de logis, aisles, galleries, escuries, maneges, iardins, bois, parc, & generalement de tous ses appartemens. Commencé et acheué par Iean Armand du Plessis, cardinal duc de Richelieu, sous la conduite de Iacques le Mercier, architecte ordinaire du roy / graué & reduit au petit-pied, par Iean Marot, aussi architecte & graueur de sadite Majesté. Dedié à Monseigneur le Duc de Richelieu.

Marot, Jean, 1619?-1679.

[Paris : s.n., 1660?]

PML 195298

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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