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Collections Spotlight, Spring 2025

January 14 through May 11, 2025

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

Henry James and American Painting

Listen to the exhibition audio guide narrated by co-curator and acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín.

Online Exhibitions

The Holie Bible faithfully translated into English, out of the authentical Latin : diligently conferred with the Hebrew, Greeke, and other editions in divers languages : with arguments of the bookes, and chapters, annotations, tables and other helpes, for better understanding of the text : for discoverie of corruptions in some late translations, and for clearing controversies in religion / by the English College of Doway.

Printed at Doway : By Laurence Kellam ..., 1609-1610.

PML 930-31

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A guide for the child and youth : in two parts : the first, for children, containing plain and pleasant directions to read English, with prayers, graces and instructions fitted to the capacity of children : the second, for youth, teaching to write, cast account and read more perfectly : with several other varieties, both pleasant and profitable / by T.H., M.A., Teacher of a private school.

T.H., M.A., Teacher of a private school.

London : Printed by J. Roberts, for the Company of Stationers, 1725?

PML 84709

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Written in Stone: Historic Inscriptions from the Ancient Near East, ca. 2500 B.C.–550 B.C.

View all five objects in an exhibition that explores the development of writing in Mesopotamia—the wedge-shaped system that we call cuneiform—that was in use for over three thousand years.

Online Exhibitions

Lindau Gospels (MS M.1).

Created

St. Gall, Switzerland, between 880 and 899.

Display Date

between 880 and 899.

Accession number

MS M.1

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM PRESENTS: MEDIEVAL MONEY, MERCHANTS, AND MORALITY

Press release date

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

The Morgan Library & Museum is pleased to present Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality. Opening November 10, 2023, and on view through March 10, 2024, the exhibition is the first to examine the economic revolution in medieval Europe and to chart the expanding role and perception of money during that period.

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Friday, September 20, 2019

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591–1666), was arguably the most interesting and diverse draftsman of the Italian Baroque era, a natural virtuoso who created brilliant drawings in a broad range of media.

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EXTRAORDINARY FIFTEENTH-CENTURY MANUSCRIPT IS THE CENTERPIECE OF A NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

A new exhibition featuring nearly fifty miniatures from the Morgan's celebrated hunting manuscript by Gaston Phoebus (1331–1391), Le Livre de la chasse (Paris, ca. 1407), is on view at The Morgan Library & Museum from April 18 through August 10, 2008.

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LISZT IN PARIS: ENDURING ENCOUNTERS AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Rare Music Manuscripts, First Editions, Letters, and Related Materials Examine Pianist-Composer Franz Liszt's Relationship to the Extraordinary Artistic Milieu of Nineteenth-Century Paris

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