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De continentia (MS M.881).

Created

Italy, near Mantua, ca. 1100-1110.

Display Date

ca. 1100-1110.

Accession number

MS M.881

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Collections Spotlight, Summer 2023

June 6 through September 17, 2023

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments, comprising illuminated manuscripts from the medieval and renaissance eras, five hundred years of printed books, correspondence and literary manuscripts, as well as printed music and autograph manuscripts by composers.

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A memorandum to London, occasioned by the pestilence there begun this present year MDCLXV, and humbly offered to the Lord Maior, aldermen and commonalty of the said city. By George Wither. Thereto is by him added, a Warning-piece to London, discharged out of a loophole in the Tower, upon meditating the deplorable fier, which consumed the house of an eminent citizen, with all the persons and goods therein, at the beginning of our most joyful festival, in December, 1662. Also, A single sacrifice offered to Almighty God, by the same author in his lonely confinement, for prevention of the dearth feared, and probably portended, by immoderate raines in June and July, 1663 ... Moreover, in regard many have reported and believed this author to be dead; we have annexed his Epitaph, made by himself upon that occasion.

Wither, George, 1588-1667.

[London] 1665.

PML 6603

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Truth brought to light by time : the proceedings touching the divorce between the Lady Frances Howard, and Robert Earl of Essex, before the King's delegates, George Canterbury, John Bishop of London, Lancelot Bishop of Ely, Richard Bishop of Litchfeild and Coventry, Doctor Cæsar, Thomas Parrey, Dr. Donne, John Bennet, Francis James and Thomas Edwards, authorized under the King's broad-seal, with his majesty's answer. Also, The arraignment of Sir Jervis Yelvis lieutenant of the Tower, Sir Thomas Monson Kt., Anne Turner widow, Richard Weston, and James Francklin, &c. : Touching the murthering and poysoning of Sir Thomas Overbury Kt. his majesty's prisoner in the Tower : with all their examinations, arraignments, evidences, confessions, answers and tryals, with their sentence and sufferings, with his majesty's gracious pardon and favour to the countess.

London : Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1692.

PML 37296

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

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Xu Bing: The Living Word

July 19 through October 2, 2011

The Living Word is a poetic evocation of the relationship between the written word and its meaning.

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Golden legend.

Created

Bruges, Belgium, 1445-1465.

Display Date

1445-1465.

Accession number

MS M.672-675

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Figures in the Foreground of the Marriage of the Virgin

Parmigianino

1503-1540

I, 48

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Four figures, one reclining

Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

1832

III, 124a.35

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Royal Tiger

Eugène Delacroix

1798-1863

ca. 1830

2006.54

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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The Ryal book.

Laurentius, Frater.

PML 698

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books