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THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM TO EXHIBIT JIM DINE'S IMPORTANT "GLYPTOTEK DRAWINGS" FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEW YORK

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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Jim Dine's series of extraordinary drawings inspired by Greek and Roman sculpture and sourced primarily at the Glyptothek Museum in Munich, Germany will receive its first New York showing in a new exhibition opening May 20 at The Morgan Library & Museum.

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NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION OF ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EXPLORES THE EVOLUTION OF HIGH FASHION DURING THE LATE MIDDLE AGES

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Friday, March 25, 2011

The complex and rich history of courtly fashion of the late Middle Ages as seen in the manuscripts and early printed books of the period is the subject of a fascinating new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum entitled Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands.

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The thre bokes of cronicles, whyche John Carion (a man syngularly well sene in the mathematycall sciences) gathered wyth great diligence of the beste authours that haue written in Hebrue, Greke or Latine. Wherunto is added an appendix, conteynyng all such notable thynges as be mentyoned in Cronicles to haue chaunced in sundry partes of the worlde from the yeare of Christ, 1532 to thys present yeare of 1550. Gathered by John Funcke of Nurenborough, whyche was never afore prynted in Englysh.

Carion, Johannes, 1499-1537 or 1538.

[London, Printed for G. Walter Lynne, 1550]

PML 17223

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The gentleman and cabinet-maker's director : being a large collection of the most elegant and useful designs of household furniture in the Gothic, Chinese, and modern taste ... : to which is prefixed a short explanation of the five orders of architecture and rules of perspective, with proper directions for executing the most difficult pieces, the mouldings being exhibited at large and the dimensions of each design specified : the whole comprehended in one hundred and sixty copper-plates, neatly engraved ... / by Thomas Chippendale ...

Chippendale, Thomas, 1718-1779.

London : Printed by J. Haberkorn ... for the author, and sold at his house in St. Martin's-Lane, also by T. Osborne [and 5 others], 1754.

PML 53030

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A rational illustration of the Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : Wherein liturgies in general are proved lawful and necessary, and an historical account is given of our own ... The whole being the substance of every thing material in all former ritualists, commentators or others ... collected and reduc'd into one continued and regular method, and interspersed ... with new observations.

Wheatly, Charles, 1686-1742.

London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Rivington, 1720.

PML 7792

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Annals of Philadelphia, : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, & incidents of the city and its inhabitants from the days of the Pilgrim founders. Intended to preserve the recollections of olden time, and to exhibit society in its changes of manners and customs, and the city in its local changes and improvements. : To which is added an appendix, containing olden time researches and reminiscences of New York City. : [Five lines of verse] / By John F. Watson, member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860.

Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart; ; New York, : G. & C. & H. Carvill., 1830.

PML 75516

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Actes made in the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the. v. day of October, in the fyrst yere of the reigne of our most gratious soueraigne Lady Mary, by the grace of God, Queene of Englande, Fraunce, and Ireland, defender of the faith, & of the church of England, and of Ireland in earth the Supreme head. And there continued to the .xxi. day of the same moneth, that is to say, in the fyrst session of the same Parliament, as foloweth.

Excusum Londini : In edibus Iohannis Cawodi typographi regiae maiestatis ; anno Domini. M.D.LIIII. [1554]

PML 15136

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War with the devil, or, The young man's conflict with the powers of darkness : a dialogue, discovering the corruption and vanity of youth; the horrible nature of sin, and deplorable condition of fallen man : also, a definition, power, and rule of conscience, and the nature of true conversion : to which is added, an appendix, containing a dialogue between an old apostate and a young professor : worthy the perusal of all, but chiefly intended for the instruction of the younger sort / by B. Keach ...

Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.

London : Printed for E. Johnston, in Ludgate Street, 1776.

PML 81775

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A Looking-glass for children : being a narrative of God's gracious dealings with some little children / recollected by Henry Jessey in his life-time. Together with sundry seasonable lessons and instructions to youth, calling them early to remember their creator / written by Abr. Chear, late of Plymouth ... to which is added many other poems very suitable ; as also some elegies on departed friends / made by the said Abraham Chear ; all now faithfully gathered together, for the benefit of young and old; by H.P.

Jessey, Henry, 1603-1663.

London : Printed for Robert Boulter, at the Turks-Head in Cornhill, 1673.

PML 84564

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An abridgment of the American gazetteer : exhibiting, in alphabetical order, a compendious account of the states, provinces, counties, cities, towns, villages, rivers, bays, harbours, gulfs, sounds, capes, mountains, forts, Indian ttibes [sic], & new discoveries, on the American continent, and its appendant islands; particularly the West-Indies ... : to which is annexed an accurate table of all the post-offices in the United States / by Jedidiah Morse, ... : illustrated with a map of North America ; abridged by the author ; published according to act of Congress.

Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826.

Printed at Boston : by Thomas and Andrews. Sold by them, by E. Larkin, and other booksellers, in Boston; by I. Thomas, Worcester; by Thomas, Andrews & Penniman, Albany; and by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore, June, 1798.

PML 85269

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