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Once the library of financier Pierpont Morgan—now a museum, research library, music venue, architectural landmark, and historic site. #MorganLibrary
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Last Seen Profiles
@MuseumofCityNY
Not so clear,
@MuseumofCityNY
! We've got a few Beatrix Potter bunnies stirring up some trouble!
#museumsnowballfight
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We recently acquired a rare, fragmentary copy of the Ars moriendi blockbook, printed in 1467–69. Incredibly, the Morgan already held the 9 leaves missing from this singular copy. Our acquisition reunites the two parts, thus forms the only extant complete copy.
#MorganLibrary
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Happy Birthday, J.R.R. Tolkien! Celebrate the genius behind "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" in our upcoming exhibition "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" opening January 25!
#Tolkien
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“Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul”
...
On this page we see J.R.R. Tolkien seeking to perfect his fire-writing.
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Today’s
#MedievalMondays
manuscript is this 1000-yr-old gospel book, known as the Golden Gospels of Henry VIII after he came to own it in the 1600s. A plant-based dye was used on the vellum as part of a long tradition of creating purple manuscripts for use in imperial contexts.
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This is the work of Barthelemy van Eyck, who was both an illuminator and panel painter. Because the manuscript remains unfinished--here, the border figures are drawn but not painted--it provides a fascinating record of the artists' working procedures.
#MedievalMondays
#medieval
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A
@StephenAtHome
spotting at “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth,” closing this Sunday!
#Tolkien
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Mary Shelley’s annotated copy of Frankenstein at the Morgan--the most widely published English novel of all time!
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We've digitized Mary Shelley's annotated copy of Frankenstein in anticipation of our upcoming exhibition "It's Alive! Frankenstein at 200"! See it here:
#Frankenstein200
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Commissioned by Catherine of Cleves, this prayerbook is one of the greatest Dutch illuminated manuscripts ever produced. The coins in the border are painted so accurately that most can be identified. The saintly Pope Gregory is shown in the central image.
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"On the Earth one sees all sorts of things." —The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
#JeSuisParis
#PrayForParis
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Mark your calendars! “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” makes its way to NYC this January!
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When Pierpont Morgan purchased the Lindau Gospels, he acquired two of the greatest jeweled bindings in existence.
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This
#WomensHistoryMonth
, we're excited to announce the exhibition "Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature," opening in February 2024. We'll be showing the Morgan’s collection of her picture letters and more, to explore how Potter's love of nature shaped her popular children’s books.
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This is the earliest surviving manuscript by Charlotte Brontë. See it in "Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will."
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Shown here is a rare example of embroidered repairs to parchment. We have 2 manuscripts with these types of repairs.
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This letter, written and signed by Edgar Allan Poe (Happy Birthday!) contains the earliest surviving portion of "The Raven" in manuscript.
#EdgarAllanPoe
#Poe
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One week left to see “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth.” We’re staying open late this Saturday (until 9 PM!) for any procrastinating hobbits/elves/wizards/etc.
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81 years ago today, J.R.R. Tolkien published “The Hobbit," welcoming us to Middle-earth—the vivid and magical world of Bilbo, Gandalf, dwarves, elves, and dragons.
#tolkienweek
#HobbitDay
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'I Hand-Sewed This Cloak About 40 Years Ago': Meet the 'Lord of the Rings' Superfans Who Attended the Morgan Library's Costume Party | artnet News
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Love
#medieval
? You'll LOVE "Imperial Splendor: The Art of the Book in the Holy Roman Empire, ca. 800–1500." View it online:
#medievaltwitter
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#Tarot
cards originated in the 15th century, but weren't used for fortune-telling until the 1780s. Read our fortune:
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We're pleased to announce the digitization of the Codex Mellon, one of the most important architecture documents of early 16th century Rome. Browse the sketchbook:
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"I was looking at the offerings of books, prints, and manuscripts in a catalogue for a forthcoming sale at the auction house of Venator & Hanstein in Cologne. At lot 533, my eyes nearly popped out of their sockets."
Read more:
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An opening day surprise! The first 3 people to visit "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" will receive a complimentary copy of the beautiful exhibition catalogue! Doors open at 10:30 AM tomorrow, January 25! Good luck!
#MiddleEarthInManhattan
#Tolkien
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Legend
#ChristopherPlummer
touring our exhibition "Charles Dickens and the Spirit of Christmas" in 2017.
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Hi,
@metmuseum
,
@NoguchiMuseum
,
@LACMA
, we thought you might like a
#MuseumBouquet
!
Jan van Huysum (1682-1749)
Flowers in an Urn and Bird's Nest on a Stone Plinth
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This month is
#NationalLibraryLoversMonth
! Celebrate with us by stopping in the East Room, which primarily holds the rare printed books collected by Pierpont Morgan himself. Come by the museum any day Tuesday through Sunday at 12:30pm for a guided tour of the museum's highlights.
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The Bouquechardière is a universal history written between 1416 and 1422 by Jean de Courcy, a retired knight. Nicknamed after his personal estate, Bourg-Achard, this work is a rare scholarly undertaking by a private individual for his own pleasure.
#MedievalMondays
#medieval
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This movable calendar is the only object of its type to survive from the Middle Ages. ON VIEW | Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time
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That's the spirit! "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" closes May 12!
Thanks to
@brielarson
’s epic
#Instagram
story, I’m booking a trip to
#NYC
just to visit
@MorganLibrary
and see the
#TolkienExhibit
. 😍😍
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The original manuscript for Charles Dickens'
#AChristmasCarol
will be on view starting tomorrow! Every holiday season, we display Dickens’s manuscript turned to a new page in J. Pierpont Morgan's Library. Hurry in! The manuscript is only on view until Jan. 8.
#MorganLibrary
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New exhibition alert! 🚨 Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality opens to the public on November 10th!
The exhibition charts the economic revolution that took place at the end of the Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
#MedievalMoney
#MorganLibrary
#IlluminatedManuscripts
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We recently discovered and acquired an extremely rare manuscript leaf by the finest illustrator of the Dutch Middle Ages: the Master of Catherine of Cleves. See it in person:
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Beloved 'Hobbit' Author JRR Tolkien Was an Artist Too. See His Fantastical Paintings and Endearing Children's Illustrations Now in a New Show
#Tolkien
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Feast like a hobbit at the Morgan Café: Two Fried Eggs (Not Six) and Ham—Not Poached, Not Broken; Cold Chicken & Pickles; Enchanting Pepper-Roasted Meat; Mincemeat Pie & Cheese; Boern’s Twice-Baked Honey Cakes; Sustaining, Not Entertaining, Cram; Dried Fruit; and Gold Coin Mead.
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Happy
#TolkienReadingDay
! We aren't doing a marathon reading, but want to facilitate a marathon-long Twitter feed! Tweet your favorite
#Tolkien
quote!
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This city just wouldn't be the same without you! Happy Birthday,
@metmuseum
! Here's to another 150 years!
.
Peter Hujar
1934-1987
New York: Sixth Avenue (1)
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Another way to celebrate
#BookLoversDay
: a visit to our historic library! Photo: Scott Kelby, 2015
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A rare example of embroidered repairs to parchment from MS M.711 (Weingarten, Germany, ca. late 12th- early 13th c)
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Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality closes Sun, 3/10! Left, a dying man waits for a priest to perform Last Rites (religious rituals for the dying). Without them, his soul cannot enter heaven but can be admitted to purgatory, seen as a place of purification by fire (right).
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This map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor was drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien most likely to aid visualization of the plot for "The Lord of the Rings." Plot your way to the Morgan to see "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" before it closes May 12.
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It’s true! “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” is on view through May 12!
It's the biggest public display of original Tolkien material for several generations! Get a sneak peak inside "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" on 2/12
@MorganLibrary
@JRRTolkien
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Today is
#WorldBookDay
! The walls of Mr. Morgan's Library are lined floor to ceiling with triple tiers of bookcases.
http://t.co/SnUhkTpmX9
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"Here are some rabbits throwing snow balls." See the full letter by
#BeatrixPotter
:
#SnowDay
#SnowBunny
❄️🐰❄️
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It’s true! “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” opens January 25!
The Largest J.R.R. Tolkien Exhibit in Generations Is Coming to the U.S.
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A photo of Belle da Costa Greene (hired in 1905), the young, African American librarian key to building our collection.
#MondayMotivation
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The earliest surviving manuscript by Charlotte Brontë now on view. Learn more:
#MorganLibrary
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A very Morgan tradition! See our annual display of Charles Dickens’ original manuscript for “A Christmas Carol” through January 6!
#holidays
#AChristmasCarol
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As a devoted father, J.R.R. Tolkien invented stories for his children. They were sometimes influenced by (if not directly connected to) his mythology. In 1920 he began to write a series of letters as if from Father Christmas.
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In 2018,
@TheAmandaGorman
, Youth Poet Laureate of the United States, visited the Morgan to place a manuscript of her poem “In This Place (An American Lyric)” in a vitrine in the Morgan’s majestic East Room.
Read about her visit and see the manuscript:
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This Book of Hours, referred to as the Black Hours, is one of a small handful of manuscripts written and illuminated on vellum that is stained or painted black.
—
Browse online:
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Time is running out to destroy the rin...errr...to see
#MiddleEarthInManhattan
! “Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth” closes May 12!
#Tolkien
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Just another (daily) reminder that "Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth" closes this Sunday, May 12.
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Happy Birthday, Bilbo! And Happy
#HobbitDay
to everyone else!
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Raise your hand if you're spending Sunday in bed....
This is a detail of an autograph letter by Beatrix Potter
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"Yo ho, my boys!" said Fezziwig. "No more work tonight. Christmas Eve, Dick. Christmas, Ebenezer! Let's have the shutters up," cried old Fezziwig, with a sharp clap of his hands, "before a man can say Jack Robinson!"
#AChristmasCarol
#ChristmasEve
#CharlesDickens
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Tolkien’s World: An Exhibition Transports Us to Middle-earth
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What looks at first glance like a bespoke Zippo lighter is Charles Dickens’s portable ink pot. Though Dickens lived and wrote well into the age of commercially produced metal pens, he chose to write with goose quills.
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#QuaratineWithTolkien
(and support a museum, too!)
From the Morgan Shop | Tolkien: Maker of Middle-earth (Collector's Edition)
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...
@ArianaGrande
must be mistaken. There were actually 20 rings. Unless, of course, she's merely speaking of the 7 "for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone."
#Tolkien
(link: )
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3 | The Morgan is the only institution in the world to possess 3 copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the first substantial book printed from movable type in the West.
50 | Only 50 copies survive today in varying states of completeness.
1 | 1 copy is always on display in our Library.
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Cylinder seals are some of the finest, and most durable, artifacts to survive from ancient Mesopotamia. In the first image, we can see the seal itself; the second image shows a modern impression made by rolling the seal in plasticine, in place of clay.
#SheWhoWrote
#MorganLibrary
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What’s inside the Morgan? Join our Instagram Live tomorrow, May 7, 4PM EST, as curator Jennifer Tonkovich and Daria Rose Foner—experts on J. Pierpont Morgan and his Library—discuss the conception, construction, and use of the Gilded Age masterpiece.
#GildedAge
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We give you our heart!
—
Lovers' Pledge
France, ca. 1555
MS M.1211
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A Smaug-sized THANK YOU to all who made our "A Long-expected Party" an evening of truly special magnificence! Tweet us your party photos of the hobbits, wizards, elves, and other Middle-earth creatures!
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Books on books! The walls are lined with bookcases fashioned of bronze and inlaid walnut.
#architectureMW
#MuseumWeek
http://t.co/9MP1l3ps4z
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Browse the entire Berthold Sacramentary, commissioned by Berthold of Weingarten, who was abbot from 1200 to 1232:
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This digital facsimile presents every page of a small, delicate maquette that Jean de Brunhoff created in 1930 or 1931 as he drafted the first book in the Babar series:
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Every holiday season, the Morgan displays Charles Dickens’s original manuscript of "A Christmas Carol" in J. Pierpont Morgan's Library. Learn more:
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Judith of Flanders was exiled in 1065 and died in 1094, leaving her books to Weingarten, where she was buried. This binding, with delicate filigree and cast figures, was added in the last third of the 11th century. Now on view in the East Room!
#MedievalManuscripts
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The North Room of J. Pierpont Morgan’s Library once served as the office of Belle da Costa Greene—Morgan’s esteemed librarian and later, the first director of the institution.
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The book—a 1564 copy of Peter Apian’s “Cosmographia— boasts several moveable volvelles...wheel charts that used rotating paper discs to help readers calculate information. This volvelle was designed to provide information about the phases of the moon.
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#HappyBirthday
Vincent van Gogh! Did you know that the
#MorganLibrary
has a collection of his letters? See more:
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The Prayer Book of Claude de France was made for Claude around 1517, the year she was crowned queen of France.
http://t.co/zQH4IOTeK4
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Pictured here is the “Easter Sonata” by Fanny Mendelssohn. Signed “F. Mendelssohn,” it was originally attributed to her brother, Felix. Thanks to scholarship by Angela Mace Christian, we now know that the manuscript was cut out of a book of Fanny's compositions.
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On view at the Morgan: See the Most Luxurious Medieval Manuscripts in Existence
@atlasobscura
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Every holiday season, we display Charles Dickens's original manuscript of "A Christmas Carol.” Dickens wrote his iconic tale in a 6-week flurry of activity beginning in October 1843 and ending in time for Christmas publication.
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It's not snowing yet but we can't resist daydreaming about a
#BeatrixPotter
snowball fight:
http://t.co/MFVBNiMLxo
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