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Princeton, NJ; New York, NY. The Getty Grant Program, a part of the J. Paul Getty Trust that funds a diverse range of projects, including research in the history of art and related fields, has recently awarded a $250,000 grant to Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to support the initial phase of a project to create an on-line, digitized, searchable catalog of the medieval manuscripts in the collection of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

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Poems of Anne Brontë, 1838–41

Browse this handwritten transcription of nine poems Anne Brontë had composed from 1838 through the summer of 1841.

Digital Facsimile

Hours of Gabriel de Chabannes (MS M.1200).

Created

France, Dijon, ca. 1480s

Accession number

MS M.1200

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Book of hours (MS M.1175).

Created

Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1525-1530

Accession number

MS M.1175

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Collections Spotlight, Fall 2022 / Winter 2023

November 1, 2022 through February 12, 2023

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

HOMELAND FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDS $1 MILLION GRANT TO CATALOGUE AND DIGITIZE MORGAN LIBRARY'S MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

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Monday, June 26, 2000

The Morgan Library has received a $1-million grant from the Homeland Foundation, Inc. for a project under way with Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to catalogue and digitize the Library's entire collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. These manuscripts, which represent a thousand years of Western iconography, will be available for the first time in Internet-accessible databases.

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Americae pars VIII. : Continens primo, Descriptionem trium itinerum nobilissimi et fortissimi equitis Francisci Draken, qui peragrato primum vniuerso terrarum orbe, postea cum nobilissimo equite Iohanne Hauckens, ad expugnandum ciuitatem Panama, in Indiam nauigauit, vbi vitam suam ambo finierunt. Secundo, iter noblissimi equitis Thomae Candisch, qui duorum ferè annorum spacio, 13000. Anglicana miliaria in mari confecit, vbi describuntur quoque omnia quae in hoc itinere ipsi acciderunt & visa sunt. Tertio, duo itinera, nobilissimi & fortissimi domini Gualtheri Ralegh equitis & designati gubernatoris regij in Anglia praesidij, nec non fortissimi capitanei Laurentii Keyms. Quibus itineribus describitur auriferum et potentissimum regnum Guiana, ad septentrionem fluminis Orenoque, aliàs Oreciliana dicti, situm, cum metropoli eius Manoa & Macuieguarai, aliisq[ue] finitimis regionibus & fluuis, mereibus item praestantissimis, & mercatura, quae in regno hoc exercetur. / Primo quidem Anglicana lingua partim ab equitibus ipsis, partim ab aliis, qui hisce intineribus interfuerunt, sparsim consignata: iam verò in vnam corpus redacta, & in Latinum sermonem conuersa, auctore M. Gotardo Artus Dantiscano. Figuris & imaginibus artificiosè illustrata & in lucem emissa, opera & sumptibus Theodorici de Bry P.M. relictae viduae & filiorum. Anno M.D. XCIX.

Impressae Francofurti ad Moenum : Per Matthaeum Becker, sumptibus dictorum Theodorici de Bry viduae & filiorum., Anno M.D. XCIX. [1599].

PML 3793.3

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books