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A beautifully preserved, large-scale drawing by the Florentine Renaissance artist Jacopo Zucchi (ca. 1540–1596) and a masterwork of English literature, Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, (1591) were recently acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum.

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Proposed Alteration of San Giovanni in Laterano, with Forechoir and Ambulatory. Verso: Sketch for ground plan of an apse

Giovanni Battista Piranesi and workshop

1720-1778

ca. 1763-1764

1966.11:56

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Drawing

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Drawings and Prints

The doctrine of the Sabbath vindicated, in a confutation of a treatise of the Sabbath written by M. Edward Breerwood against M. Nic. Byfield, wherein these five things are maintained: first, that the fourth commandement is given to the servant and not to the master onely ; secondly, that the fourth commandement is morall ; thirdly, that our owne light workes as well as gainefull and toilesome are forbidden on the Sabbath ; fourthly, that the Lords day is of divine institution ; fifthly, that the Sabbath was instituted from the beginning / by the industrie of an unworthy labourer in Gods vineyard, Richard Byfield, pastor in Long Ditton Surrey.

Byfield, Richard, 1598?-1664.

London : Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith, 1631.

PML 49360.1

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Book

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Printed Books