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The Morgan Library, New York

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The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World at the Morgan Library - see these and more at their new exhibition. Details at:

Exploring the Medieval World Through Illuminated Manuscripts at the Morgan Library - Medievalists.net

The Morgan Library & Museum has unveiled an extraordinary exhibition, The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World, running from Januar

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The Morgan Library and Museum, New York City

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#WatercolorWednesday :

Beatrix Potter (English, 1866-1943)

“Terrapin, probably drawn at London Zoo” c.1905

Watercolor, pen & ink, graphite

Seen at “Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum

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A pendant containing the hairs of Mozart and Beethoven bound together and encased in glass. From the Morgan Library's description:

This pendant contains locks of both Mozart’s and Beethoven’s hair bound in black silk thread. Pendants and lockets containing the hair of loved ones or esteemed individuals were produced in the eighteenth century. They became especially popular, however, in the Victorian period (1837–1901), notably as a form of mourning jewelry. Mozart’s locks were cherished over generations by his family and close friends. Today the Mozarteum owns five locks of his hair. Genetic testing revealed that four of the five samples belonged to the same person. Because Mozart was buried in an unmarked grave and he has no living relatives, more specific tests regarding the hair’s authenticity are not possible.

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Ceiling details in the Morgan Library

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The Morgan Library and Museum

The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World

Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, Traponee (Sri Lanka) in the Book of the Marvels of the World, c. 1460-65, France, Angers. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum. MS 124. fol. 32r.

Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, Arabia, in the Book of Marvels of the World, c. 1460, France, Angers, Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.461, fol. 10r.

Worksop Bestiary, c. 1185, England, Lincoln (?). Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 51v.

Konrad von Megenberg (1309-1374), The Book of Nature. Augsburg: Johann Bämler, 1475. Morgan Library & Museum, PML 136

Hanns Rüst, Map of the World. Germany, Augsburg, ca. 1480. Morgan Library & Museum, PML 19921

Conjoined Twins, in Abridged Divine Histories. France, Amiens, ca. 1300. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.751, fol. 52v.

Abridged Divine Histories. France, Amiens, ca. 1300. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.751, fol. 53r.

Worksop Bestiary. England, Lincoln (?), ca. 1185. Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.81, fol. 52r.

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William Blake’s “Behemoth and Leviathan,” creatures of an all-powerful God. CREDIT COURTESY MORGAN LIBRARY

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“It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.”

― T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once & Future King