![]() Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval TimeĢ25 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016 Seiden Fund for Exhibitions and Publications, and the Andrew W. Now and Forever: The Art of Medieval Time is made possible with generous support from Barbro and Bernard Osher, The Janine Luke and Melvin R. Wieck, Curator at the Morgan, and published by The Morgan Library & Museum in association with Scala Arts Publishers. The exhibition is accompanied by a beautiful catalogue written by Roger S. Now and Forever also explores how time beyond the grave preoccupied medieval people for whom life on earth was a mere dress rehearsal for the main event-the afterlife. ![]() Visitors will engage with the complexities of time as defined by liturgical celebrations and their two overlapping systems of temporale (feasts of time) and sanctorale (feasts of saints), systems that still influence the way we tell time today. The exhibition begins with the quirks of the medieval calendar, exploring sacred feasts, the mysteries of Golden Numbers, the utility of Dominical Letters, and how the Middle Ages inherited the Roman Calendar of Julius Caesar. The manuscripts range in date from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries and come from all the major countries of Europe. In the Middle Ages, however, the concept of time could be approached in many different ways, with vastly different tools.ĭrawing upon the rich holdings of the Morgan’s collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts, Now and Forever explores how people told time in the Middle Ages and what they thought about it. What time is it? The question seems simple, and with a watch on your wrist or a cell phone in your hand, the answer is easy. Purchased on the Belle da Costa Greene Fund and through the generosity of the Fellows, 19. 1440, illuminated for Catherine of Cleves, duchess of Guelders, by the Master of Catherine of Cleves, The Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.917/945, III, fol. ![]() ![]() This spring, the Morgan Library and Museum exhibitis some of its more treasured medieval manuscripts exploring the ways in which people told and experienced medieval time Hell, “Hours of Catherine of Cleves,” The Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. ![]()
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