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FACETS OF THE MORGAN TOUR BEGINS THIS FALL

Press release date

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Facets of the Morgan is a series of exhibitions that is touring the country while the Morgan Library undergoes an extensive expansion project. Audiences in cities around the United States will have the opportunity to see a selection of the some 350,000 exquisite works from the Morgan's renowned collections.

Press

[Computus collection].

Created

Italy, possibly Piacenza, 1018-1032.

Display Date

1018-1032.

Accession number

MS M.925

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Opera omnia : Medea exc[a]epta & triumpho C[a]esaris & libello illo pontica lingua co[m]posito qu[a]e in curia tempo[rum] perierunt ...

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.

PML 22117-18, 44492

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Biblia [German].

PML 126004

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

A Forme of Common-Prayer, to be used upon the solemne Fast appointed by His Majesties Proclamation upon the second Friday in every Moneth ...: For the Averting of Gods Iudgements now upon us; For the ceasing of this present Rebellion and restoring a happy peace in this kingdome ...

Oxford : Leonard Lichfield, 1643.

PML 7779

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The life of Charles Henry Count Hoym, ambassador from Saxony-Poland to France and eminent French bibliophile, 1694-1736 / written by Baron Jérôme Pichon for the Society of French Bibliophiles, and translated into English for the Grolier Club ; with a sketch of the life of the late Baron Pichon.

Pichon, Jérôme, baron, 1812-1896.

New York : The Grolier Club, 1899 ([New York] : DeVinne Press)

PML 11286

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Select amusements in philosophy and mathematics : proper for agreeably exercising the minds of youth / translated from the French of M. L. Despiau ; with several corrections and additions, particularly a large table of the chances or odds at play ; the whole recommended as an useful book for schools, by Dr. Hutton.

Despiau, L.

London : G. Kearsley ; Edinburgh : Bell and Bradfute ; Glasgow : Brash and Reid, 1801 (Hatton Garden [London] : W. Glendinning)

PML 85139

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

This evening, Saturday, January 22, 1825. His Majesty's servants will, (for the third time) perform a new grand opera, called The fall of Algiers ... to conclude with, (for the 23rd time) an entirely new splendid comic pantomime, called Harlequin & the talking bird, the singing trees & golden waters.

Accession number

PMC 1120

Published

[London] : J. Tabby, printer, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1825.

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

The Kasper Collection

January 11 through May 8, 2022

This display celebrates Kasper’s bequest to the Morgan of eleven works on paper from his collection.

Histoire Naturelle des Indes

The beautiful paintings and descriptions in the Drake Manuscript document the plant, animal, and human life of the Caribbean late in the sixteenth century.

Digital Facsimile