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On Monday next, May 15, 1826, His Majesty's Servants will perform Shakspeare's First Part of Henry the Fourth ... After which, (98th time), Weber's celebrated Romantic Opera of Der Freischutz ... In consequence of the necessary completion of Mr. Macready's Engagement, and other imperative Arrangements, Aladdin can only be performed on Thursday and Saturday in the ensuing week ... On Tuesday, Shakspeare's Tragedy of Othello ... After which [26th time] the Romantic Fairy Tale of Oberon ... On Wednesday, [last time this season] the Tragedy of Virginius ... After which, M. Alexandre, (Who is engaged for Three Nights, previous to his return to his native Country) will make his second appearance on this Stage, in his favourite Entertainment called, The Rogueries of Nicholas. A New Musical Romance, in 3 Acts, called Knight of the Cross; Or, The Hermit's Prophecy, is in rehearsal ...

MA 9571

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Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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

Press release date

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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Die hÿstorie von den sÿben weÿsen meÿster[e]n.

PML 131

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Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Das ist die mapa mu[n]di un[d] alle land un[d] kungk reich wie sie ligend in der ga[n]sze welt.

Rüst, Hanns, active 1472-1497.

PML 19921

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Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Vita Christi (MS M.508).

Created

Lombardy, Italy, between 1500 and 1550.

Accession number

MS M.508

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Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Kynge Rycharde cuer du lyon.

Imprynted at London : In the Fletestrete at [th]e sygne of [th]e sonne by wynkyn de worde, The yere of our lorde. M.ccccc. and. xxviii. [1528]

PML 20931

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Book

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Printed Books

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La vie littéraire / par Anatole France.

France, Anatole, 1844-1924.

Paris : Calmann Lévy, 1888-1892.

Heineman 89

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Book

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Printed Books

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A world of wonders, or, An introduction to a treatise touching the conformitie of ancient and moderne wonders, or, A preparative treatise to the Apologie for Herodotus written in Latine / by Henrie Stephen, and continued here by the author himselfe ; translated out of the best corrected French copie ...

Estienne, Henri, 1531-1598.

London : Imprinted for John Norton, 1607.

PML 6247

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Book

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Printed Books

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A collection of curious discourses, written by eminent antiquaries upon several heads in our English antiquities. Together with Mr. Thomas Heare's preface and appendix to the former edition. To which are added a great number of antiquary discourses written by the same authors. Most of them now first published from the original manuscripts.

London : W. and J. Richardson, 1771.

PML 8270-71

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Book

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Printed Books

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Institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor.

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515.

Venice : Aldus Manutius, April 1508.

PML 1440

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Book

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Printed Books

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