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POET, PAINTER, ENGRAVER, CREATOR OF ILLUMINATED BOOKS—NEW MORGAN EXHIBITION PRESENTS THE GENIUS OF WILLIAM BLAKE

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Saturday, August 1, 2009

Many of Blake's most spectacular watercolors, prints, and illuminated books of poetry will be on view from September 11, 2009, to January 3, 2010.

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Sacramentary (MS G.21)

Sacramentary, use of Sant’Apollonaire in Classe, in Latin, Northeastern Italy, perhaps the Abbey of St. Fonte Avellana, ca. 1050.

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ONE OF THE MOST EXCEPTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTIONS IN NORTH AMERICA TRAVELS TO THE MORGAN

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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

The Extended Moment: Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada, February 15, 2019 through May 26, 2019.

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A letter to a friend : Giving a concise, but just, representation of the hardships and sufferings the town of Boston is exposed to, and must undergo in consequence of the late act of the British-Parliament; which, by shutting up it's [sic] port, has put a fatal bar in the way of that commercial business on which it depended for it's [sic] support. Shewing, at the same time, wherein this edict, however unintended, is powerfully adapted to promote the interest of all the American colonies, and even of Boston itself in the end / By T. W. a Bostonian.

Chauncy, Charles, 1705-1787.

Boston, N.E. : Printed and sold at Greenleaf's printing-office, 1774.

PML 3504

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Concerning persecution in all ages to this day : and he that was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born of the Spirit : and even so it is now, yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution : mark, all them that will live godly, not them that will live ungodly, out of Christ Jesus, 2 Tim. 3.12. : for unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ... / G. Fox.

Fox, George, 1624-1691.

London : Printed by John Bringhurst ..., 1682.

PML 12948

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Gospel musick, or, The singing of Davids psalms, &c. in the publick congregations, or private families asserted, and vindicated, against a printed pamphlet, entitled, Certain reasons by way of confutation of singing psalms in the letter, objections sent in, in writing, scruples of some tender consciences / by thy loving brother, N.H., D.D., M.M.S. ; vnto which is added, the iudgement of our worthy brethren of New-England touching singing of psalms, as it is learnedly and gravely set forth in their preface to the Singing psalms, by them translated into metre.

Homes, Nathanael, 1599-1678.

London : Printed for Henry Overton ..., 1644.

PML 19490

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The royal standard English dictionary : in which the words are not only rationally divided into syllables, accurately accented, and their part of speech properly distinguished, and their various significations arranged in one line; but likewise, by a key to this work ... it exhibits their true pronunciation ... : to which is prefixed, a comprehensive grammar of the English language : to the whole is added, the Scripture proper names ... : names of the principal cities, rivers, mountains, &c. in the known world : also, the ancient and modern poets, philosophers, and statesmen, &c. ... / by William Perry ...

Perry, William, active 18th century.

Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Leonard Worcester, for Isaiah Thomas ; [Brookfield, Mass.] : Sold at his bookstore, by said Thomas, & Waldo, in Brookfield ; [Walpole, N.H.] : And said Thomas, & Carlisle, in Walpole ; Sold also, in Boston : By sai

PML 82291

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A brief state of the province of Pennsylvania, in which the conduct of their Assemblies for several years past is impartially examined, and the true cause of the continual encroachments of the French displayed, more especially the secret design of their late unwarrantable invasion and settlement upon the river Ohio. To which is annexed, an easy plan for restoring quiet in the public measures of that province, and defeating the ambitious views of the French in time to come. In a letter from a gentleman who has resided many years in Pennsylvania to his friend in London.

Smith, William, 1727-1803.

London, R. Griffiths, 1755.

PML 3721

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The profitable arte of gardeninge : nowe the third time sette forth: to which is added much necessarye matter, and a number of secrets with the phisicke helpes belonginge to eche herbe, and that easie prepared ; To this annexed, two proper treatises, the one entituled The marvellous gouernement, propertie, and benefyte of the bees, vvith the rare secretes of the hony & waxe ; And the other, the yearly coniectures, meete for husbandmen to knovve: englished by Thomas Hyll Londiner ; Whereunto is newly added a treatise, of the arte of graffing and planting of trees.

Hill, Thomas, active 1568-1600.

Imprinted at London : Thomas Marshe, 1572.

PML 55621

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Leaf with “Crowning with Thorns" from Jacques Le Lieur's Poème sur la Passion.

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Rouen, France, ca. 1530

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MS M.1246

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Manuscript

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Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts