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Close Encounters: Irving Penn Portraits of Artists and Writers

January 18 through April 13, 2008

Close Encounters showcases a group of sixty-seven portraits of notable subjects by Irving Penn (b. 1917), acquired by The Morgan Library & Museum in 2007.

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Pierre-Jean Mariette and the Art of Collecting Drawings

Art dealer, collector, art historian, and connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette (1694–1774) assembled one of the finest and most renowned drawings collections. The selection shown here, drawn primarily from the Morgan’s holdings, speaks to Mariette’s discerning taste and erudition.

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The doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated, in a confutation of a treatise of the Sabbath written by M. Edward Breerwood against M. Nic. Byfield, wherein these five things are maintained: first, that the fourth commandement is given to the servant and not to the master onely ; secondly, that the fourth commandement is morall ; thirdly, that our owne light workes as well as gainefull and toilesome are forbidden on the Sabbath ; fourthly, that the Lords day is of divine institution ; fifthly, that the Sabbath was instituted from the beginning / by the industrie of an unworthy labourer in Gods vineyard, Richard Byfield, pastor in Long Ditton Surrey.

Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.

London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1631.

PML 49360.1

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Printed Books

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A second treatise of the Sabbath, or an explication of the Fourth Commandement. Written, by Mr Edward Brerewood professor in Gresham Colledge in London.

Brerewood, Edward, 1565?-1613.

At Oxford : Printed by Iohn Lichfield, and are to be sold by Thomas Huggins, Ann. Dom. 1632.

PML 49360.2

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Printed Books

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Synesii Cyrenaei episcopi Epistolae. Graecis cum antiquis codd. mss. accuratè collatis. Cum interpretatione latina viri eruditissimi [i.e. F. Portus] et notis.

Synesius, of Cyrene, Bishop of Ptolemais.

Paris, Marcus Orry, 1605.

PML 195850

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books
Bibliothèque choisie pour les dames / rédigée par Madame Dufrenoy.

Paris : Aimé Payen, 1822.

PML 196114

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Printed Books
Poème sur la Passion.

Created

Rouen, France, ca. 1530.

Accession number

MS M.147

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Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Dogale issued in the name of Doge Francesco Donato (Francesco Donà) to Marino Venier, captain and mayor of Sacile.

Created

Venice, Italy, Mar. 4, 1551.

Display Date

Mar. 4, 1551.

Accession number

MS M.353

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Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
The Book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England; with the psalter or Psalmes of David.

Cambridge : Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel, 1638.

PML 27692

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books
Le Pseaultier de David, contenant cent cinquante Pseaumes : avec les cantiques : ausquels les accens requis et necessaires pour bien prononcer chacun mot, son diligemment observez.

Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1586.

Paris : Ches Iamet Mettayer Imprimeur du Roy, 1586.

PML 55184

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Binding Collection

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Printed Books