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The exhibition features approximately ninety highly influential texts and outstanding works of art, providing a compelling overview of ideas championed by the Romantics and also implemented by them in private estates and public parks in Europe and the United States, notably New York's Central Park.

The delight of the humourous : come then, my friend----my genius, come along. At Sadler's Wells booth, opposite the Cheese Fair in Stirbich Fair, will be exhibited the usual diversions of Sadler's Wells, consisting of several curious bodily performances. Likewise Miss Wakelin's amazing performances. ... By a company of fancy ticklers, some with heads right, and some with heels light. By the latter some tumbling a-la-mode a-flip-flop ... To which will be added an entertaining interlude, called The wife well managed: or a Cure for cuckoldom ...

Cambridge : Printed by Sarah James near the Senate-House, [between 1758 and 1766]

PML 19327, leaf 092

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

XL homiliarum in Evangelia libri duo.

Created

Rhineland, Germany, second half of 12th century.

Accession number

MS M.1156

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Vita et transitus

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.

PML 84

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

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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