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SPENCER FINCH TO TRANSFORM THE MORGAN'S GILBERT COURT WITH LARGE-SCALE INSTALLATION OF COLORED GLASS

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Monday, June 9, 2014

On June 20, Spencer Finch will unveil a new, site-specific, large-scale installation at the Morgan Library & Museum inspired by its great collection of medieval Books of Hours.

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Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect. Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Browse all drawings in the exhibition and listen to the audio guide.

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Rome After Raphael

January 22 through May 9, 2010

Featuring more than eighty works drawn almost exclusively from the Morgan's exceptional collection of Italian drawings, Rome After Raphael illuminates artistic production in Rome from the Renaissance to the beginning of the Baroque—from approximately 1500 to 1600.

Tractatvs de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliæ : tempore regis Henrici Secundi compositus, iusticiæ gubernacula tenente illustri viro Ranulpho de Glanuilla iuris regni & antiquarum consuetudinu[m] eo tempore peritissimo. Et illas solu[m] leges continet & consuetudines secundum quas placitatur in Curia regis ad Scaccarium & coram insticiis vbicunque fuerint. Huis adiectæ sunt a quondam legum studioso adnotationes aliquot marginales non inutiles.

Glanville, Ranulf de, 1130-1190.

Londini : In ædibus Richardi Totteli. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, 1555?

PML 37721

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Printed Books

Procez verbal de tout de qui s'est passé en l'Acte du Serment faict par Louis XIV Roy de France et de Navarre, et Anne Reyne Regente sa mere pour l'entretenement du traicté de confederation avec Charles Roy de la grande Bretagne en l'eglise Sainct Pierre de Ruel de : contemporary copy, 1644 Jul. 3.

1644 Jul. 3.

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Les souvenirs et les regrets du vieil amateur dramatique, ou, Lettres d'un oncle à son neveu sur l'ancien théâtre français, depuis Bellecoeur, Lekain ... jusqu'a Molé, Larive ... / ouvrage orné de gravures coloriées ... faites d'après nature, de Foëch de Basle et de Whirsker, ces différens acteurs dans les rôles où ils ont excellé.

Arnault, A.-V. (Antoine-Vincent), 1766-1834.

Paris : Librairie de Alphonse Leclere ..., 1861.

PML 150228

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Printed Books

THE MORGAN LIBRARY AT THE CONNOISSEUR'S ANTIQUES FAIR

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Thursday, August 26, 2004

The Morgan Library is the beneficiary of the opening night preview of the Connoisseur's Antiques Fair, the show of the Art and Antique Dealers of America, Inc. A benefit gala to support the programs of the Morgan Library as a museum and research center is scheduled to be held on the fair's opening night, November 18.

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The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants particularly the forest-trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions ... To which, are added observations on the air, soil, and waters: with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole, is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of.

Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749.

London : Printed at the expence of the author: and sold by W. Innys and R. Manby ... by Mr. Hauksbee ... and by the author at Mr. Bacon's in Hoxton, 1731-1743.

PML 45708-09

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Printed Books