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Letter from Ismail Merchant, New York, New York, to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Delhi, India, 1975 October 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Merchant, Ismail, sender.

MA 23840.1467

Department

Cut and Paste: Reframing Medieval Art

February 4 through June 15, 2025

The idea of cutting up a medieval manuscript is almost unthinkable today. Historically, however, this practice was relatively common, and it reached a fever pitch in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

CONTEMPORARY ART WORLD MEETS THE OLD IN NEW EXHIBITION AT THE MORGAN LIBRARY & MUSEUM

Press release date

Friday, August 31, 2007

Georg Baselitz, Ellsworth Kelly, Giuseppe Penone, and Dorothea Rockburne connect their work to that of the Morgan's old masters.

Press

[The Canterbury Tales].

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

PML 693

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Goodnight, The question, and Sonnet : autograph fair copies of three poems, [1821].

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.

[1821].

MA 3223

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Autograph letter signed : Camden Place, Chislehurst [London], to her nephew, Lucien-Louis-Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte, [1878 Dec. 26].

Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920.

[1878 Dec. 26].

MA 892.18

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Coursing (preparatory design for lithograph in "An Almanac of Twelve Sports" (February) by the artist; words by Rudyard Kipling, London, published by William Heinemann, 1897 [1898]).

William Nicholson

1872-1949

1897.

2008.67

Classification

Drawing

Department

Modern and Contemporary Drawings

A book for a corner : or, selections in prose and verse from authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment / with comments on each, and a general introduction, by Leigh Hunt.

London : Chapman and Hall, 1849.

PML 6917-18

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The history of Britain, that part especially now call'd England. : From the first traditional beginning, continu'd to the Norman cnquest / Collected out of the antientest and best authours thereof.

Milton, John, 1608-1674.

London : J. M. for J. Allestry, 1670.

PML 18679

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, information to the ignorant : in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P.

Penn, William, 1644-1718.

[London : s.n.], 1672.

PML 19096.13

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books