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The Library is by far the largest and grandest of the rooms in J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library.

John Milton's Paradise Lost

Read the only surviving manuscript of the first book of Paradise Lost in its entirety and listen to selected excerpts of Milton's poems.

Digital Facsimile

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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William Blake's World: "A New Heaven Is Begun"

September 11, 2009, through January 3, 2010

In the Morgan's first exhibition devoted to Blake in two decades, former director Charles Ryskamp and curators Anna Lou Ashby and Cara Denison have assembled many of Blake's most spectacular watercolors, prints, and illuminated books of poetry to dramatically underscore his genius and enduring influence.

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.