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Aritmetica prattica facilissima / composta da Gemma Frisio ; con l'aggiunta dell'abbreviamento de i Rotti astronomici di Giacomo Pelletario, & del conoscere à mente le calende, gl'idi, le none, le feste mobili, il luoco del sole, & della luna nel zodiaco, & la dimostratione della radice cubica, lequali tutte cose dal latino, ha in questa lingua ridotte Oratio Toscanella della famiglia di maestro Luca Fiorentino, & halle dedicate.

Gemma, Frisius, 1508-1555.

Venetia : Appresso Giovanni Bariletto, 1567.

PML 126434

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Printed Books

GETTY GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS FUNDS TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART FOR CATALOGING OF MORGAN LIBRARY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

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Wednesday, May 19, 1999

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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Mocking of the Village Madman

Guercino

1591-1666

I, 101

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

In hoc uolumine haec continentur Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII., M.T. Ciceronis De inuentione lib. II., Eiusdem De oratore ad Quintum fratrem lib. III., Eiusdem De claris oratoribus, qui dicitur Brutus lib. I., Eiusdem Orator ad Brutum lib. I., Eiusdem Topic ad Trebatium lib. I., Eiusdem oratoriae partitiones lib. I., Eiusdem De optimo genere oratorum praefatio quaedam : Index rerum notabilium, quae toto opere continentur, per ordinem alphabeti.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi et Andreae Soceri mense Octobri MDXXI [October 1521]

PML 1313

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Printed Books

Libri de re rustica. M. Catonis lib. I. M. Terentii Varronis lib. III. L. Iunii Moderati Columellae lib. XII. Eiusdem De arboribus liber separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit ostenditur in epistola ad lectorem. Palladii lib. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus, simulq[ue] de umbris, & horis quae apud Palladium in alia epistola ad lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum dictionum, quae in his libris Catonis, Varronis, Columellae.

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Maio 1514.

PML 1581

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Printed Books

Libri de re rustica. M. Catonis lib. I. M. Terentii Varronis lib. III. L. Iunii Moderati Columellae lib. XII. Eiusdem De arboribus liber separatus ab alijs, quare autem id factum fuerit ostenditur in epistola ad lectorem. Palladii lib. XIIII. De duobus dierum generibus, simulq[ue] de umbris, & horis quae apud Palladium in alia epistola ad lectorem. Georgij Alexandrini enarrationes priscarum dictionum, quae in his libris Catonis, Varronis, Columellae.

Venetiis : In aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense Maio 1514.

PML 79276

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Printed Books

Meliadus De leonnoys. Du present volume sont contenus les nobles faictz darmes du vaillant roy Meliadus de Leonnoys : Ensemble plusieurs autres nobles proceses de Chevalerie, faictes tant par le roy Artus, Palamedes, le Morhoult dirlande, le bon chevalier sa[n]s paour, Galehault le brun, Segurades, Galaad, que autres bo[n]s Chevaliers estās au temps dudit roy Meliadus Histoire singuliere et recreatiue, nouuellement imprimee. / [Translated from the Latin of Rusticien de Pise.].

Paris : Galliot du Pre, 30 Nov., 1528.

PML 20969

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Printed Books

Marks of Genius: Treasures from the Bodleian Library

June 6 through September 28, 2014

The exhibition features approximately sixty rare and exceptional objects from diverse disciplines that serve as points of departure for exploring some of the fundamental meanings of genius.

J. Pierpont Morgan's Library: Building the Bookman's Paradise

In 1902, the American financier and collector J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) commissioned architect Charles Follen McKim (1847–1909) of the firm McKim, Mead & White to design a freestanding library next to his home on East 36th Street in New York.

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Ferdinand Hodler: Drawings—Selections from the Musée Jenisch Vevey

June 16 through October 1, 2023

A modern art pioneer, renowned Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) created works that range from vast symbolist compositions to intimate, realist portraits and nearly abstract landscape paintings.