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LISTMAKERS—NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM LOOKS AT THIS UNIVERSAL FORM OF DOCUMENTATION AMONG ARTISTS AND WRITERS SHOW FEATURES A WIDE VARIETY OF ITEMS FROM THE COMMON "TO-DO" TO LISTS OF BOOKS TO READ, APPOINTMENTS MADE, AND PLA

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Friday, April 1, 2011

Beginning June 3, a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates this most common form of documentation by presenting an array of lists made by a broad range of artists, from Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder to H. L. Mencken, Eero Saarinen, Elaine de Kooning, and Lee Krasner.

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Mounting Ancient Western Asian Seals and Tablets

Morgan collected Western Asian seals and cuneiform tablets.
The Chatechisme : that is to say, ane cōmone and catholik instruction of the christin people in materis of our catholik faith and religioun, quhilk na gud christin man or woman suld mis knaw / set furth be ye maist reuerend father in God Iohne Archbishop of sanct Androus Legatnait and primat of ye kirk of Scotland, in his prouincial counsale haldin at Edinburgh the xxvi. day of Januarie. the zeir of our Lord 1551. with the aduise and counsale of the bischoippis and ... and Canon law of the said realme of Scotland present for the tyme [Quotation from Augustine's De trinitate in Latin and English].

Hamilton, John, 1511?-1571.

St. Andrews : [John Scot], 1552.

PML 5523

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Pomona, or, The fruit-garden illustrated : containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England : calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated : likewise several practical observations in the imbibing power and perspirations of fruit-trees : the several effects of heat and moisture tending to the growth and maturity of fruits : to which is added, a curious account of the most valuable drawings of the several fruits, curiously engraven on seventy-nine large folio plates / by Batty Langley.

Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.

London : G. Strahan, 1729.

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The text of the New Testament of Iesus Christ translated out of the vulgar Latine by the Papists of the traiterous seminarie at Rhemes : with argements of bookes, chapters, and annotations, pretending to discover the corruptions of divers translations, and to cleare the controversies of these dayes, whereunto is added the translation out of the original Greeke, commonly used in the Church of England, with a confutation of all such arguments, glosses and annotations, as containe manifest impietie, or heresie, treason, and slander, against the Catholike Church of God, and the true teachers thereof, or the translations used in the Church of England / [edited] by W. Fulke.

London : Printed for Thomas Adams, 1617.

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Divers ancient monuments in the Saxon tongue : written seven hundred yeares agoe : shewing that both in the Old and New Testament, the Lords Prayer, and the Creede, were then used in the mother tongue : and also, what opinion was then held of the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ / published by William L'Isle ... : whereunto is added out of the Homilies and Epistles of Aelfricus a second edition of a testimonie of antiquity touching the sacrament, and a sermon on the Paschall Lambe, and of the sacramentall body and blood of Christ, used to be spoken by the people at Easter, before they should receive the Communion.

Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham.

London : Printed by E.G. [i.e. Edward Griffin] for Francis Eglesfield, 1638.

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A map of Virginia. : With a description of the covntrey, the commodities, people, government and religion. / VVritten by Captaine Smith, sometimes Governour of the countrey. Wherevnto is annexed the proceedings of those colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, orations, and relations of the salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their ijournies and discoveries. Taken faithfvlly as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Rvssell, Tho. Stvdley, Anas Todkill, Ieffra Abot, Richard Wiefin, Will. Phettiplace, Nathaniel Povvell, Richard Pots. And the relations of divers other diligent observers there present then, and now many of them in England. By VV.S.

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

At Oxford, : Printed by Joseph Barnes, 1612.

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The powring out of the seven vials : or, An exposition of the sixteenth chapter of the Revelation, with an application of it to our times. Wherein is revealed Gods powring out the full vials of His fierce wrath. 1. Upon the lowest and basest sort of Catholikes. 2. Their worship and religion. 3. Their priests and ministers. 4. The house of Austria, and popes supremacy. 5. Episcopall government. 6. Their Euphrates, or the streame of their supportments. 7. Their grosse ignorance, and blind superstitions. Very fit and necessary for this present age / Preached in sundry sermons at Boston in New-England, by the learned and reverend John Cotton ...

Cotton, John, 1584-1652.

London, Printed for R. S. and are to be sold at Henry Overtons shop in Popes-head alley, 1645.

PML 3510

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Paradisi in sole paradisvs terrestris : Or, A choise garden of all sorts of rarest flowers, with their nature, place of birth, time of flowring, names, and vertues to each plant, useful in physick, or admired for beauty. To which is annext a kitchin-garden furnished with all manner of herbs, roots, and fruits, for meat or sawce used with us. With the art of planting an orchard of all sorts of fruit-bearing trees and shrubs, shewing the nature of grafting, inoculating, and pruning of them. Together with the right ordering, planting and preserving of them, with their select vertues: all unmentioned in former herbals / Collected by John Parkinson ...

Parkinson, John, 1567-1650.

London : Printed by R. N. and are to be sold by R. Thrale, 1656.

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The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / by Edward Topsell.

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

London : Printed by William Iaggard, 1607.

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