Search | The Morgan Library & Museum

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.

Read more
A breviate of the life of William Laud, Arch-bishop of Canterbury : extracted (for the most part) verbatim, out of his owne diary, and other writings, under his owne hand. Collected and published at the speciall instance of sundry honourable persons, as a necessary prologue to the history of his tryall, for which the criminall part of his life, is specially reserved / by William Prynne ...

Prynne, William, 1600-1669.

London : Printed by F.L. for Michaell Sparke, sen., 1644.

PML 17087.1

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
Youth's entertaining and instructive calendar for the Jubilee Year 1750 : containing an explanation of all the feasts and fasts appointed to be observ'd in the liturgy of the Church of England, and all other remarkable days mention'd in the common almanacks : likewise a great variety of little polite stories, tales, fables, rules of life, and other lessons of morality for every day through-out the year.

London : Printed for W. Owen, [1749?]

PML 85539

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work; with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists; the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress.

Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788.

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1790.

PML 86915

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
A seasonable memento for New Year's day : a sermon preached (summarily) at the Old Church lecture in Boston, on Thursday January 1, 1746,7, wherein the important duty of remembring the years of the right hand of the most high, and commemorating God's wonderful works of creation, redemption, and providence, is inculcated and recommended as good employment for the first day of the year in particular / by Thomas Foxcroft ...

Foxcroft, Thomas, 1697-1769.

Boston : Printed and sold by S. Kneeland and T. Green ..., 1747.

PML 3535

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
Misery's virtues whet-stone : reliquiæ Gethinianæ, or, Some remains of the most ingenious and excellent lady, the Lady Grace Gethin, lately deceased : being a collection of choice discourses, pleasant apothegmes, and witty sentences / written by her for the most part, by way of essay, and at spare hours ; published by her nearest relations to preserve her memory, and digested for method's sake under proper heads.

Gethin, Grace, Lady, 1676-1697.

[London] : Printed by D. Edwards, for the author, 1699.

PML 6232

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
A form of prayer and thanksgiving to Almighty God : to be used in all churches and chapels throughout England, the Dominion of Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed, on Thursday, the twenty-ninth of July, being the day appointed by proclamation for a general Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for putting an end to the late bloody, extended, and expensive war im which we were engaged.

London : Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1784.

PML 19068

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
Grammatical institutes, or, An easy introduction to Dr. Lowth's English grammar : designed for the use of schools : and to lead young gentlemen and ladies, into the knowledge of the first principles of the English language / by John Ash ; with an appendix ... ; to which is now added, select lessons ... ; and a collection of books, proper for young gentlemen and ladies, to shorten the path to knowledge.

Ash, John, 1724?-1779.

[New York] : London, printed, New-York, re-printed, and sold by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, 1774.

PML 85061

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Read more
"The fact that you, Frothingham, claimed you discovered the body at exactly 12:13 P.M. was what first made me suspicious, of course. And then when Billington claimed that he had heard the clock chime the quarter hour just as he and Miss Arbuthnot met for their little assignation in the study, it was clear that you, Merryweather . . ." : cartoon for The New Yorker [drawing].

Richter, Mischa, 1910-2001.

MA 12662

Classification

Drawing

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Read more
This present evening, Wednesday, March 4, 1835, will be performed O'Keefe's comic opera of The Castle of Andalusia, or The banditti of the forest ... After which will be performed, for the fifth time this season, the favourite operetta of No! ... The whole to conclude with, by particular desire, the new drama, interspersed with music, entitled The climbing boy, or The member for the borough.

Accession number

PMC 1220.18

Published

[Edinburgh : publisher not identified, 1835].

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

Read more