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The Morgan Library & Museum announced today that it has received a bequest of more than one hundred drawings and prints from the estate of former director Charles Ryskamp, who died on March 26, 2010.

Press

The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia

Lorenzo Franchi

1565-1630

1992.111

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

A vvay to get vvealth : containing sixe principall vocations or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, I. The natures, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattell and fowle ... II. The knowledge, use, and laudable practise of all the recreations meete for a gentleman. III. The office of a housewife ... IV. The enrichment of the weald in Kent. V. The husbanding, and enriching of all sorts of barren grounds ... VI. The making of orchards ... The first five bookes gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great Britaine.

Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.

London : Printed by E[dward] G[riffin] for John Harison, and are to be sold at the Golden Vnicorne in Pater-noster Rowe, 1638.

PML 55604

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The historie of foure-footed beastes : describing the true and liuely figure of euery beast, with a discourse of their seuerall names, conditions, kindes, vertues (both naturall and medicinall), countries of their breed, their loue and hate to mandkinde, and the wonderfull worke of God in their creation, preseruation, and destruction : necessary for all diuines and students, because the story of euery beast is amplified with narrations out of scriptures, fathers, phylosophers, physitians, and poets : wherein are declared diuers hyerogliphicks, emblems, epigrams, and other good histories, collected out of all the volumes of Conradus Gesner, and all other writers to this present day / by Edward Topsell.

Topsell, Edward, 1572-1625?

London : Printed by William Iaggard, 1607.

PML 145559.1

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Passio unser Herren Jesu Christi auss den vier Evangelisten gezogen ...

Created

Nuremberg, 1507-1513 and ca. 1580-1600

Accession number

MS M.1218

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

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