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Complementing the opening of the exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy, this one-day scholarly symposium will bring together experts working on Belle Greene and/or the fields relevant to our understanding of her life and career, including African American history and lit
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May 21 through September 8, 2024Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of the collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, literary manuscripts and correspondence, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.
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CreatedEgypt, 9th cent.-early 10th cent.Accession numberMS M.581ClassificationDepartment
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Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), “A Visit from St. Nicholas,” better known as “The Night Before Christmas.”, 1822, MA 23900
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MARIA L. FREDERICKS APPOINTED DRUE HEINZ BOOK CONSERVATOR AT THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY
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August 29 through November 16, 2008Through nearly fifty manuscripts, first editions, letters, and related materials drawn almost entirely from the Morgan's collections, the exhibition Liszt in Paris: Enduring Encounters celebrates the art and the diverse and fertile artistic world of the virtuoso pianist-composer.
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OngoingA museum and independent research library, the Morgan Library & Museum began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913). As early as 1890, Morgan had begun to assemble a collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts, early printed books, and old master drawings and prints.
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February 4 through June 15, 2025The 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.
