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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.

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The narrative of the Honourable John Byron : (commodore in a late expedition round the world) containing an account of the great distresses suffered by himself and his companions on the coast of Patagonia, from the year 1740, till their arrival in England, 1746 : with a description of St. Jago de Chili, and the manners and customs of the inhabitants : also a relation of the loss of the Wager, man of war, one of Admiral Anson's squadron / written by himself, and now first published.

Byron, John, 1723-1786.

London : Printed for S. Baker and G. Leigh ... and T. Davies, 1768.

PML 78514

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Historia de gentibvs septentrionalibvs : earvmpve diversis statibvs, conditionibvs, moribvs, ritibvs, svperstitionibus, disciplinis, exercitiis, regimine, victu, bellis, structuris, instrumentis, ac mineris metallicis & rebus mirabilibus, nencon vniuersis pene animalibus in Septentrione degentibus, eorumque natura. Opus Vt Varivm Plvrimarvmqve Rervm Cognitione Refertvm, Atqve Cvm exemplis externis, tum expresis rerum internarum picturis illustratum, ita delectatione iueunditatéque plenum, maxima lectoris animum voluptate facilè perfundens. / Autore Olao Magno Gotho Archiepiscopo Vpsalensi Suetiae & Gothiae Primate. Cvm Indice Locvpletissimo. Cavtvm Est Privilegio Ivlii III. Pont. Max. ne quis ad Decennium imprimat.

Olaus, Magnus, Archbishop of Uppsala, 1490-1557.

Romae : Apvd Jacobo Maria de Viotti, 1555.

PML 38676

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Program for Dixie to Broadway : presenting the world's greatest colored entertainer Florence Mills, the sensation of two continents, with Shelton Brooks and Hamtree Harrington, an all star cast of colored artists and Will Vodery's Famous Plantation Orchestra : music by George W. Meyer and Arthur Johnson, lyrics by Grant Clark and Roy Turk, book by Walter De Leon, Tom Howard and Lew Leslie, entire production conceived and staged by Lew Leslie : at the Shubert Garrick Theatre, second week, beginning ... August 24, 1924.

Published

[Chicago : s.n., 1924]

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Printed Material

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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili : vbi hvmana omnia non nisisomnivm [sic] esse docet atqve obiter plvrima scitv sane qvam digna commemorat.

Colonna, Francesco, -1527.

PML 373

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Seated Male Nude

Guercino

1591-1666

1643

1970.12

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Presens Clementis quinti [con]situtio[n]u[m] opus clarissimu[m].

Clement V, Pope, approximately 1260-1314.

PML 21216

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Book of hours (MS M.1175).

Created

Bruges, Belgium, ca. 1525-1530

Accession number

MS M.1175

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Book of hours (S.14).

Created

Tyrol, Austria, or southern Germany, ca. 1500.

Accession number

MS S.14

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Statutes of the realm, including Magna Carta (MS M.1150).

Created

England, first quarter of the 14th century.

Accession number

MS M.1150

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts