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Treasures from the Vault

February 25, 2020 to February 14, 2021

Treasures from the Vault, an ongoing exhibition series, features works drawn from these diverse collections in the sumptuous setting of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.

Trattato della pittura : manuscript, fair copy produced in the workshop of Cassiano dal Pozzo.

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.

Rome : workshop of Cassiano dal Pozzo, ca. 1638-1641

MA 23865

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Des sainctes peregrinationes de iherusalem.

Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.

PML 607

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Jane Austen's Letters

This digital facsimile includes fifty-one letters in Austen’s hand, the largest collection anywhere in the world.

Digital Facsimile

Polygraphice: or The arts of drawing, engraving, etching, limning, painting, washing, varnishing, gilding, colouring, dying, beautifying and perfuming. In seven books. Exemplified, in the drawing of men, women, landskips, countreys, and figures of various forms; the way of engraving, etching and limning, ... the depicting of the most eminent pieces of antiquities; the paintings of the antients; ... The whole doctrine of perfumes (never published till now,) together with the original, advancement and perfection of the art of painting: and a discourse of perspective, chiromancy and alchymy. To which also is added, I. The one hundred and twelve chymical arcanums of Petrus Johannes Faber, a most learned and eminent physician, translated out of Latin into English. II. An abstract of choice chymical preparations, fitted for vulgar use, for curing most diseases incident to humane bodies. The fifth edition: ... Adorned with XXV. copper sculptures; ... by William Salmon, ...

Salmon, William, 1644-1713.

London : printed for Thomas Passinger at the Three Bibles on London-Bridge; and Thomas Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little-Brittain, MDCLXXXV. [1685]

PML 129584

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Head of a Woman Crying Out

Attributed to Correggio

1489?-1534

ca. 1509-1511

IV, 30

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Four Grotesque Masks (Mascarons)

Attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi

1527-1596

1547-1549

1979.9

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

Two Scenes from the Martyrdom of St. Minias

Attributed to Cenni di Francesco di Ser Cenni

active 14th century-15th century

ca. 1390-1410

I, 1

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

GETTY GRANT PROGRAM AWARDS FUNDS TO PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S INDEX OF CHRISTIAN ART FOR CATALOGING OF MORGAN LIBRARY MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

Press release date

Wednesday, May 19, 1999

Princeton, NJ; New York, NY. The Getty Grant Program, a part of the J. Paul Getty Trust that funds a diverse range of projects, including research in the history of art and related fields, has recently awarded a $250,000 grant to Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to support the initial phase of a project to create an on-line, digitized, searchable catalog of the medieval manuscripts in the collection of The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

Press

Poems of Anne Brontë, 1838–41

Browse this handwritten transcription of nine poems Anne Brontë had composed from 1838 through the summer of 1841.

Digital Facsimile