The Morgan Library - The Pierpont Morgan Library

Date:
1930
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/52/77
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Morgan Library - The Pierpont Morgan Library. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    history of painting; nor was the subject included in the curriculum of any American University, whereas today individual students are making research in these special fields and extensive courses are given at Harvard, Prince- ton, Columbia, New York and other Universities.’ ™ Prof. C. R. Morey, head of the department of Art and Archaeology of Princeton University, says that ‘these studies and publications would not have been possible without the establishment of this collection in America. The significance of the foregoing is greater than at first appears, because it seems to me that the various researches that cluster around the Morgan collection have been, ina sense, the first which have made American scholarship in mediaeval archaeology recognized in Europe as an impor- tant factor in the future development of the subject’.“® In his latest publication,” Dr. Hanns Swarzenski of Frankfurt, speaking of this Library says... ‘to the students of Manuscripts it has become as it were the Bibliothéque Nationale of America; in fact it is the only place in America where one can obtain a knowledge of European book-painting from its inception to the 15th century. The principal works which are necessary as a foundation for this study of book-painting of the early (9) Extract from letter of Dr. W. W. S. Cook. (10) Extract from letter of Prof. C. R. Morey. (11) Dr. Hanns Swarzenski. Die Deutschen Miniaturen des friihen Mittelalters in Amerikanischem Besitz. Leipzig, 1929.
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