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In August Company
This book, written for the general reader and scholar alike, reproduces and discusses over 175 of the finest objects from the Library's richly diverse collections. An introductory section provides an account of the origins of the Library, when Pierpont Morgan - avowing that "no price is too high for an object of unquestioned beauty and known authenticity" - set out to form a collection of books, manuscripts, and drawings to rival those of the great aristocratic libraries of Europe. The elegant marble library he built in New York to house these collections, regarded as one of architect Charles F. McKim's finest achievements, is illustrated and discussed in detail as well.
The Morgan Library
"This book provides an overview of the Library's collections, highlights among which are the ninth-century Lindau Gospels, a rare vellum copy of the Gutenberg Bible, The Hours of Catherine of Cleves, Albrecht Durer's Adam and Eve, drawings by Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, Rembrandt Harmensz, van Rijn, and Peter Paul Rubens, and manuscripts of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg, Charlotte Bronte, Henry David Thoreau, John Steinbeck, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln."--BOOK JACKET.
The First Quarter Century of the Pierpont Morgan Library
Belle Greene (1879-1950) served as personal librarian, 1905-1924, to J.P. Morgan and later as director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, from 1924 until her retirement in 1948; she was daughter of Richard Greener, the first African American man to graduate from Harvard, and a former member of the University of South Carolina faculty.
Illuminated Manuscripts
Glorious works of art as well as documents of bygone eras, painted and illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the greatest and by far the best-preserved evidence of daily life during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This Tiny Folio draws on one of the greatest collections in the world to illustrate the angels, demons, and everyday denizens of the medieval world.
The Master's Hand
The Pierpont Morgan Library is now known internationally as both a research center and museum providing visitors access to some of the Western world's most significant cultural artifacts. This publication affords its readers an inside view of these rich holdings, first assembled by a passionate, private collector, with informative essays on priceless illuminated manuscripts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance, on pre-1825 drawings by masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Piranesi, Fuseli, and Blake, on a unique collection of musical scores by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Cage, and others, and on manuscripts and letters by Zola, Picasso, and Einstein as well as other writers, artists, and scientists from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries.
