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Belle da Costa Greene's Letters to Bernard Berenson

Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950), the Morgan’s pathbreaking inaugural director, attracted considerable attention both in the press and from her many admirers.
Golden legende.

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

PML 780

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Printed Books
Preparing the Morgan's Treasures for Exhibition

The conservators evaluate the condition of each object and undertake any repairs or treatment needed to render the object safe to display.
JEAN POYER: ARTIST TO THE COURT OF RENAISSANCE FRANCE OPENS JANUARY 25

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Thursday, November 30, 2000

The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6. Taking a novel approach to the traditional manuscript exhibition, Jean Poyer examines not only the artist's work but also his artistic roots, his contemporaries, and his competitors.

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Thesaurus polyglottus : vel, Dictionarium multilingue, ex qvadringentis circiter tam veteris, qvam novi ... orbis nationum linguis, dialectis, idiomatibus & idiotismis, constans ... / ab Hieronymo Megisero.

Megiser, Hieronymus, ca. 1553-1618.

Francofvrti ad Moenvm : Sumptibus authoris, 1603.

PML 126194

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Of the imitation of Christ three, both for wisedome, & godlines, most excellent bookes: / made 170 yeeres since by on Thomas of Kempis, & for the worthines thereof oft since translated out of Latine into sundrie languages by diuers godlie and learned men ... now newlie corrected, translated, and ... illustrated by Thomas Rogers MDLXXX.

[London : Essex House Press, 1904]

PML 196645

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Wisdom in miniature, or, The young gentleman and lady's pleasing instructor : being a collection of sentences, divine, moral and historical, selected from the writings of many ingenious and learned authors, both ancient and modern : Intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes in America.

Printed at Worcester, (Massachusetts) : by Thomas, Son & Thomas ..., October, 1796.

PML 82480

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The history of the Holy Jesus : containing a brief and plain account of his birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven; and his coming again at the great and last Day of Judgment : being a pleasant and profitable companion for children; composed on purpose for their use / by a lover of their precious souls.

Lover of their precious souls.

Boston : Printed and sold by Ez. Russell, in Queen-Street, 1771.

PML 80753

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The history of the Holy Jesus : containing a brief and plain account of his birth, life, death, resurrection and ascention into heaven; and his coming again at the great and last Day of Judgment : being a pleasant and profitable companion for children ; compos'd on purpose for their use / by a lover of their precious souls.

Lover of their precious souls.

Boston : Printed by J. Bushell and J. Green, 1749.

PML 81023

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The history of the Holy Jesus : containing a brief and plain account of his birth, life, death, resurrection and ascension into heaven; and his coming again at the great and last Day of Judgment : Being a pleasant and profitable companion for children ; composed on purpose for their use / by a lover of their precious souls.

Lover of their precious souls.

Boston : Printed and sold by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street, 1774.

PML 81024

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Book

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Printed Books

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