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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.
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 .
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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.
Two years later, Bailey moved back to New York to become the sixth director of the Morgan Library & Museum, succeeding William Griswold. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Alongside curatorial posts, Bailey has taught art history at a number of institutions, including: the University of Pennsylvania (1988), Bryn Mawr College (1989), Columbia University (2005-2007 ...
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.
The Morgan Bible is part of Morgan Library & Museum in New York (Ms M. 638). It is a medieval picture Bible.The Morgan Bible originally contained 48 folios; of these, 43 still reside in the Morgan Museum, two are in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, one is in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and two have been lost. [3]
Pentecost, folios 18v–19r, c. 1460–75.Morgan Library & Museum, New York.Each folio measures 170 × 122 mm. The black books of hours are a grouping of four to five (some books so defined contain only a few pages in this style) extant Flemish illuminated manuscripts so named for their dark appearance. [3]