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The Morgan Library & Museum (originally known as the Pierpont Morgan Library; colloquially the Morgan) is a museum and research library at 225 Madison Avenue in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. Completed in 1906 as the private library of the banker J. P. Morgan, the institution has more than 350,000 objects.
Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan's death in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan, and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Stavelot Triptych, Mosan, Belgium, c. 1156–58. 48×66 cm with wings open, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City. The Stavelot Triptych is a medieval reliquary and portable altar in gold and enamel intended to protect, honor and display pieces of the True Cross.
Picturing Devotion Anew in the Psalter-Hours of Yolande of Soissons (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, M729) (PhD dissertation). University of California, Berkeley. ProQuest 9966556; Sand, Alexa (2005). "Vision, Devotion, and Difficulty in the Psalter Hours 'of Yolande of Soissons'". The Art Bulletin. 87 (1): 6–23. JSTOR 25067153.
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves (Morgan Library and Museum, now divided in two parts, M. 917 and M. 945, the latter sometimes called the Guennol Hours or, less commonly, the Arenberg Hours) is an ornately illuminated manuscript in the Gothic art style, produced in about 1440 by the anonymous Dutch artist known as the Master of Catherine of Cleves.
Morgan Library (New York) 280 x 380 mm. 89 miniatures. Some reproductions have name Pierpont attached for the Pierpont Morgan Library. *Ms 644 Morgan Beatus. Click on image to access all pages. Illustration from Morgan Beatus of scene from Revelation 14, which describes a vision of the Lamb, Jesus, and 144,000 people standing on Mount Zion
Morgan Library, MS M.500 is a 13th-century illuminated manuscript of the Manafi'-i hayavan ("The Benefits of Animals") of Ibn Bukhtishu (980–1058). It was commissioned in 1297–1299 by the Mongol ruler Ghazan .
The Amherst papyri are a collection of ancient papyri now mostly kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. [1] They were acquired by John Pierpont Morgan in 1912. [2] They are named for Lord Amherst of Hackney, who began assembling the collection in the 1860s through purchases from R. T. Lieder and John Lee. [3]