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The first one-man show in the United States devoted to the work of a manuscript illuminator, Jean Poyer: Artist to the Court of Renaissance France opens at the Morgan Library on January 25, 2001, and remains on view through May 6. Taking a novel approach to the traditional manuscript exhibition, Jean Poyer examines not only the artist's work but also his artistic roots, his contemporaries, and his competitors.

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Missal leaf, Canon of the Mass illustration (MS M.955).

Created

Constance, Germany, ca. 1510.

Accession number

MS M.955

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Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Poets of tomorrow ...

London : Hogarth Press, 1939-

PML 191978-80

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Book

Department

Printed Books

Il Fior di Battaglia: A Renaissance Fighting Manual

This manuscript, along with two others, comprise the earliest illuminated copies of Fiore dei Liberi’s treatise on fencing and martial arts entitled Fior di battaglia (The Flower of Battle).

Digital Facsimile

A history of New-England. From the English planting in the yeere 1628. untill the yeere 1652. Declaring the form of their government, civill, military, and ecclesiastique. Their wars with the Indians, their troubles with the Gortonists, and other heretiques. Their manner of gathering of churches, the commodities of the country, and description of the principall towns and havens, with the great encouragements to increase trade betwixt them and old England. With the names of all their governours, magistrates, and eminent ministers.

Johnson, Edward, 1599?-1672.

London, Printed for N. Brooke, 1654.

PML 3713

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books