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Degas: Drawings and Sketchbooks

September 24, 2010, through January 23, 2011

The exhibition features some twenty exceptional drawings by Degas, along with two of his sketchbooks, demonstrating the iconic artist's characteristic daring and inventiveness.

De balneis omnia quae extant apud Graecos, Latinos, et Arabas, tam medicos quàm quoscunque cȩterarum artium probatos scriptores : qui vel integris libris, vel quoquo alio modo hanc materiam tractauerunt, nuper hinc inde accurate conquisita & excerpta, atque in vnum tandem hoc volumen redacta : in quo aquarum ac thermarum omnium, quae in toto ferè orbe terrarum sunt, metallorum item, & reliquorum mineralium naturȩ, vires, atque vsus exquisitissime explicantur: indicibus quatuor appositis, quorum primus auctores omnes, qui in hoc volumine habentur, secundus balneorum nomina, tertius capita cuiuscunq[ue] libri, quartus mirabiles curationes in his libris contentas, quae vi ac beneficio balneorum factae fuerunt, complectitur : opus nostra hac aetate, in qua tam frequens est thermarum vsus, medicis quidem necessarium, caeteris vero omnibus tum summopere vtile, tum etiam periucundum.

Venetiis : Apud Iuntas, 1533.

PML 79264

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Sir Francis Drake reuiued: : calling vpon this dull or effeminate age, to folowe his noble steps for golde & siluer, by this memorable relation, of the rare occurrances (neuer yet declared to the world) in a thirde voyage, made by him into the West-Indies, in the yeares 72. & 73. when Nombre de Dios was by him and 52. others only in his company, surprised. Faithfully taken out of the reporte of Mr. Chirstofer Ceely, Ellis Hixon, and others, who were in the same voyage with him. / By Philip Nichols, preacher. Reviewed also by Sr. Francis Drake himselfe before his death, & much holpen and enlarged, by diuers notes, with his owne hand here and there inserted. Set forth by Sr. Francis Drake baronet (his nephew) now liuing.

Nichols, Philip.

London : Printed by E. A. for Nicholas Bourne dwelling at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange, 1626.

PML 38016

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A catalogue of the large and noble library of James West, Esq; ... consisting of an uncommon number of British history and antiquities, many on large paper and with manuscript notes: a matchless collection printed by Caxton, Wynkin de Worde, Pynson, &c. with great variety of others in the finest preservation, and most elegant bindings. Which (by order of the administratix,) will be sold by auction, by Mess. Langford's, at his late dwelling house in King's-street aforesaid. In two distinct parts, viz. the first part will begin selling on Wednesday the 3d and end the 13th of February 1773; and the second part will begin on Monday the 22d of February, and end the 13th of March following. ...

West, James, 1703-1772.

London : Catalogues of the whole may be had on the days of viewing at the place of sale, and at Mess. Langford's ... 1773.

PML 195570

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Arnout Tholinx, Inspector

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

1606-1669

ca. 1656

RvR 399

Classification

Print

Department

Drawings and Prints

Prints

Book of hours fragment (MS M.1248).

Created

Dijon, Burgundy, France, ca. 1480s.

Accession number

MS M.1248

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Angelo Maria Querini Appointed to a Papal Commission on Greek Liturgy

Francesco Zugno

1709-1787

ca. 1753

1993.53

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Letter from Maria Knox, Nasirabad, India, to Mrs. Harriet Butler, 1820 December 11 : autograph manuscript signed.

Knox, Maria, 1795-1822, sender.

Nasirabad, India, 1820 December 11.

MA 14286.15

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Polycronycon.

Higden, Ranulf, -1364.

PML 684

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Book of hours (MS M.1167).

Created

Southern Netherlands, perhaps Ghent, ca. 1490.

Display Date

ca. 1490.

Accession number

MS M.1167

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts