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Catechisms, or, Instructions in the principles of the christian religion, and the history of scripture : composed for children and youth, according to their different ages : to which is prefix'd, a discourse on the way of instruction by catechisms, and the best manner of composing them / by Isaac Watts, D.D.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.

London : Printed for E. Matthews, at the Bible in Pater-noster Row : R. Ford, at the Angel : And R. Hett, at the Bible and Crown in the Poultry, 1730.

PML 15604

Classification

Book

Department

Printed Books

Le romant de la rose.

Guillaume, de Lorris, active 1230.

PML 601

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books

Autograph letters signed (76), typewritten letters signed (15), autograph postcards signed (2), visiting cards signed (3), and telegram, dated : New York [and other places], 1902-50, to Mr. (and Mrs.) Harry Harkness Flagler, 1902 Dec. 23.

1902 Dec. 23.

Accession number

MFC D1667.F574 (1-95)

Department

Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

Music type

Letter

Letter from Robert Burns, Ellisland Farm, to Frances Anna Wallace Dunlop, 1788 December 7 : autograph manuscript signed.

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796, sender.

Dumfries, Scotland, 1788 December 7.

MA 46.11

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

Gospel book fragment (MS M.565).

Created

Saxony, northeastern Germany, ca. 1180-1200.

Accession number

MS M.565

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Collections Spotlight, Fall 2022 / Winter 2023

November 1, 2022 through February 12, 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.