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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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Manuscripts of Anne Brontë

The Morgan Library & Museum holds the largest collection of literary manuscripts by Anne Brontë (1820–1849), all of which are presented here.

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A Visit to the Gilded Age

The director of The Morgan Library & Museum welcomed fellow directors of nationwide Gilded Age museums for a walk-through of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.

The Polite academy : or School of behaviour for young gentlemen and ladies intended as a foundation for good manners and polite address, in masters and misses ; containing, I. The beauty and advantages of a genteel behaviour and agreeable complaisance. II. Some rules and observations for moral behaviour in young ladies, very necessary to be inculcated while at the boarding-school, in order to be practised when they come from it. III. Directions for good manners, agreeable behaviour, and polite address, on the most common occasions in life. IV. Some directions for an easy genteel carriage in walking, saluting, making a courtesy, bow, and dancing the minuet. V. Some observations on the real use and advantages of dancing by Mr. Locke and the Chevalier De Ramsay; with a few very necessary instructions, by an eminent master ; illustrated with twelve copper-plate cuts, beautifully engraved.

London : Printed for R. Baldwin, in Paster-noster-Row ; and B.C. Collins, in Salisbury, 1786.

PML 88261

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Printed Books

Collections Spotlight, Spring 2022

May 10 through October 30, 2022

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.