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Book of hours (MS M.1162).

Created

Lyons, France, 1484

Accession number

MS M.1162

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Annunciation to the Virgin

Attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti

1475-1564

IV, 7

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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HOMELAND FOUNDATION, INC. AWARDS $1 MILLION GRANT TO CATALOGUE AND DIGITIZE MORGAN LIBRARY'S MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS

Press release date

Monday, June 26, 2000

The Morgan Library has received a $1-million grant from the Homeland Foundation, Inc. for a project under way with Princeton University's Index of Christian Art to catalogue and digitize the Library's entire collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts. These manuscripts, which represent a thousand years of Western iconography, will be available for the first time in Internet-accessible databases.

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Discripcion of Britayne.

Higden, Ranulf, -1364.

PML 678

Classification

Incunable Collection

Department

Printed Books
Three Gutenberg Bibles

May 20 through September 28, 2008

Three Gutenberg Bibles allows visitors to see important differences in copies of the first substantial printed book in the Western world, an epoch-making technological innovation, yet also a highpoint in the art of graphic design.

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On Monday next, May 15, 1826, His Majesty's Servants will perform Shakspeare's First Part of Henry the Fourth ... After which, (98th time), Weber's celebrated Romantic Opera of Der Freischutz ... In consequence of the necessary completion of Mr. Macready's Engagement, and other imperative Arrangements, Aladdin can only be performed on Thursday and Saturday in the ensuing week ... On Tuesday, Shakspeare's Tragedy of Othello ... After which [26th time] the Romantic Fairy Tale of Oberon ... On Wednesday, [last time this season] the Tragedy of Virginius ... After which, M. Alexandre, (Who is engaged for Three Nights, previous to his return to his native Country) will make his second appearance on this Stage, in his favourite Entertainment called, The Rogueries of Nicholas. A New Musical Romance, in 3 Acts, called Knight of the Cross; Or, The Hermit's Prophecy, is in rehearsal ...

MA 9571

Department

Literary and Historical Manuscripts

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Frau Johann Gotthard Reinhold and Her Two Daughters, Susette and Marie

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

1780-1867

1815

2010.112

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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Stigmatization of St. Francis from the Belluno Gradual (MS M.1177).

Created

Cremona, Italy, 1489.

Display Date

1489.

Accession number

MS M.1177

Classification

Manuscript

Department

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Collections Spotlight

February 17 through August 15, 2021

Objects on view in J. Pierpont Morgan’s library reflect the past, present, and future of building collections in four curatorial departments.

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Set from a Ballet of a Dockside with Shops

Italian School

18th century

ca. 1759-60

1982.75:337

Classification

Drawing

Department

Drawings and Prints

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