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THE MORGAN INSTALLS GEOMETRIC WALL DRAWING BY IMPORTANT CONCEPTUAL ARTIST SOL LEWITT

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Monday, July 23, 2018

Donated to the Morgan, Wall Drawing 552D will be on view in Gilbert Court.

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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS TREASURES FROM THE VAULT—A NEW EXHIBITION SERIES SHOWCASING HIGHLIGHTS FROM ITS COLLECTIONS

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Works on view in the historic 1906 McKim building include a J. R. R. Tolkien letter discussing The Hobbit, a ninth-century coptic manuscript, and the earliest surviving complete opera.

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Royal cookery; or, The complete court-cook. Containing the choicest receipts in all the particular branches of cookery, now in use in the Queen's palaces of St. James's, Kensington, Hampton-court, and Windsor. With near forty figures (curiously engraven on copper) of the magnificent entertainments at coronations, instalment, balls, weddings, &c., at court. By Patrick Lamb. To which are added, bills of fare for every season in the year.

Lamb, Patrick.

London, A. Roper, 1710.

PML 66767

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Book

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Printed Books

Elenchus scriptorum omnium, ueterum scilicet ac recentioru[m], extantium & non extantiu[m], publicatoru[m] at[que] hinc inde in bibliothecis latitantium, qui ab exordio mundi us[que] ad nostra tempora in diuersis linguis, artibus ac facultatib. claruerunt, ac etiam num hodie uiuunt : ante annos aliquot à clariss. uiro D. Conrado Gesnero medico Tigurino editus, nu[n]c uerò primùm in reipublicae literariae gratiam in compendium redactus, & autorum haud poenitenda accessione auctus / per Conradum Lycosthenem Rubeaquensem.

Lykosthenes, Konrad, 1518-1561.

Basileae : Per Ioannem Oporinum, anno Salutis humanae 1551 mense Septembri.

PML 125013

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Printed Books

Paradisisches Wunder-Spiel : welches sich in diesen letzten Zeiten und Tagen in denen abend-ländischen Welt-Theilen als ein Vorspiel der neuen Welt hervor gethan : Bestehende in einer gantz neuen und ungemeinen Sing-Art auf Weise der englishen und himmlischen Chören eingerichtet ... / Alles nach englischen Chören Gesangs-Weise mit viel Mühe und grossem Fleiss ausgefertiget von einem Friedsamen, der sonst in dieser Welt weder Namen noch Titul suchet.

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PMC 2115

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Ephratæ [Pa.] : Sumptibus Societatis, 1754.

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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life. Wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper-plates, done from the original designs which were cut in wood, and afterwards painted by John Holbein, in the town-house at Basil. To which is prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the Scripture text from which the designs were taken.

Edinburgh, 1788.

PML 196815

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Printed Books

Dionysii Afri de situ orbis opus studiosis necessariu[m] : quo gentes, populi, urbes, maria, flumina explicantur, graece scriptu[m]. Idem in latinitate[m] a Rhemnio gram[m]atico tra[n]slatu[m] falso hactenus Prisciano adscriptum, in quo prope ̀duce[n]te loca castigauimus, quae et Plynio et reliq[ue]s geographis plurimum acco[m]modabunt. In idem annotatmenta graecoru[m] more latine scripta, in quibus aliquot autorum castigationes continentur. Coelii Calceagnini annotatio super Anchiale, et Rhemnia[m]: carminis pe[n]sitatio.

Dionysius, Periegetes.

[Ferrariae : Ioa[n]es Maciochus Bondenus, 1512]

PML 1074

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Printed Books

The oxford Methodists: being an account of some young gentlemen in that city, in derision so called; setting forth their rise and designs. With Some Occasional remarks on A Letter inserted in Fog's Journal of December 9th, 1732, relating to them. In a letter from a Gentleman near Oxford, to his Friend at London. To which is prefix'd, A Short Epistle to the Reverend Mr. Whitefield, A. B. of Pembroke-College, Oxon.

Law, William, 1686-1761.

London : Printed for J. Roberts at the Oxford Arms in Warwick-Lane and A. Dodd without Temple-Bar, 1738.

PML 15185

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Printed Books

La vie de M. de Moliere.

Grimarest, Jean Léonor Le Gallois de, 1659-1713.

A Paris : Chez Jacques le Febvre ..., 1705.

Heineman 202

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Book

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Printed Books