They are organized (roughly) chronologically, from earliest to latest. NYC.coms exhaustive New York City Event Calendar. written and illuminated in Angers or Tours, France, ca. Outside on East 36th Street, the sphinx in the right-hand sculpted panel of the original library's facade is rumored to wear the face of architect Charles McKim. Here you can see all the medieval manuscripts whose animals feature on this blog. HathiTrust is a partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. 31, 1895) by Richard Bennett Catalogue of manuscripts and early printed books from the. The library shop is housed within an 1852 Italianate brownstone, once the home of Morgan's son, J. The Morgan is known for exquisite changing exhibitions that feature its holdings and related objects and art from other collections. The Morgan Library was founded in 1906 to house Morgans private library, which included manuscripts and printed books, as well as his collection of prints.
Some crowning achievements on paper include letters penned by John Keats and Thomas Jefferson a summary of the theory of relativity in Einstein's own elegant handwriting three Gutenberg Bibles drawings by Dürer, Leonardo da Vinci, Rubens, Blake, and Rembrandt the only known manuscript fragment of Milton's Paradise Lost Thoreau's journals and original manuscripts and letters by Charlotte Brontë, Jane Austen, Thomas Pynchon, and many others. The treasures inside this museum and research center, gathered by John Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), one of New York's wealthiest financiers, are exceptional: medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, old-master drawings and prints, rare books, and autographed literary and musical manuscripts.
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