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THE MORGAN DISPLAYS ITS SIXTEENTH-CENTURY VAN DAMME HOURS MANUSCRIPT ON THE OCCASION OF ITS LONG-AWAITED FACSIMILE PUBLICATION

Press release date

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

On view through October 6, 2013, the tiny (2.2 x 2.9 inch) Book of Hours is the creation of scribe Antonius van Damme and illuminator Simon Bening.

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The book of common prayer : and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of England : together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches.

London : Printed by Charles Bill, and the executrix of Thomas Newcomb ..., 1709.

PML 16088

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Tafel van den Kersten Ghelove.

Created

Netherlands, perhaps Utrecht, ca. 1405-1410.

Accession number

MS M.691

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

The ground beneath her feet / Salman Rushdie.

Rushdie, Salman.

London : Jonathan Cape, 1999.

PML 350021

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

S.S. John the Evangelist and Luke, and a Crowned Figure Blessing

Italian School

15th cent

ca. 1400

I, 2

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Incipit noua [com]pilatio decretalium gregorij .ix.

Gregory IX, Pope, approximately 1170-1241.

PML 19375

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work / by Henry Mayhew.

Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887.

London : Office [of the London Chronicle], 16, Upper Wellington Street, Strand, 1851-1861.

PML 147168-70

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Examen de ingenios : The examination of mens wits. In which, by discovering the varietie of natures, is shewed for what profession each one is apt, and how far he shall profit therein / by Iohn Huarte ; translated out of the Spanish tongue by M. Camillo Camilli ; englished out of his Italian, by R.C., esquire [i. e. Richard Carew].

Huarte, Juan, 1529?-1588.

London : Printed by Adam Islip, for Thomas Adams, 1616.

PML 6219

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A discourse concerning Lent : in two parts : the first an historical account of its observation, the second an essay concern[ing] its original : this subdivided into two repartitions whereof the first is preparatory and shews that most of our Christian ordinances are deriv'd from the Jews, and the second conjectures that Lent is of the same original / [by George Hooper].

Hooper, George, 1640-1727.

London : Printed by Tho. Warren for Walter Kettilby, 1695.

PML 127537

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

A plan of the west line or parallel of latitude, which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pensylvania [map] : a plan of the boundary lines between the province of Maryland and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware with part of the parallel of latitude which is the boundary between the provinces of Maryland and Pennsylvania / J. Smither sculpsit.

Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.

[Philadelphia : Robert Kennedy, Aug. 16, 1768]

PML 77700

Classification

Map

Department

Printed Books