A thorough scientific study of certain tarot cards.

The Tarot Cards Painted by Bonifacio Bembo for the Visconti-Sforza Family: An Iconographic and Historical Study

Moakley, Gertrude

The New York Public Library

The collection contains some forty+ original compositions by Scott Joplin (five marches, five waltzes and thirty-six rags), seven collaborative works, and Joplin's school of ragtime. The most famous rags are included: "The Entertainer," "Easy Winners," The Cascades," and the 'Maple Leaf," as well as some unusual ones, like the "Stoptime Rag," which requires the player to stomp his foot.

The Collected Works of Scott Joplin - (Volume 1) Works for Piano

Biographies & Memoirs

SCOTT JOPLIN

Reference & Collections

As the undisputed "King of Ragtime Writers," Scott Joplin (1868-1917) composed many of the best-loved and most popular compositions of the ragtime era. His works include not only classic rags, but marches, waltzes, and cakewalks of incredible beauty that

Scott Joplin: Complete Piano Works: Rags, Waltzes, Marches

Arts & Photography

Vera Brodsky Lawrence

Music

One of the treasures of The New York Public Library’s Spencer Collection, The Medici Aesop is a fifteenth-century Florentine manuscript of Aesop’s fables, traced to the library of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s son Piero and illustrated with exquisite miniature paintings—among the loveliest in any Renaissance work. Its magnificently illustrated pages feature a rainbow of brilliant colors and elaborate decorations that will dazzle today’s reader as they once did the Medicis. With their conversations between animals, people, and gods and their sharp-edged moral lessons, these fables have been favorites for generations. This new softcover edition contains 139 classic tales, both familiar —"The Dog and the Butcher," "The Old Woman and the Doctor," and "The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox"—and less so: for example, "Hermes and the Sculptor," in which the god learns the precise value of a statue portraying him. Each of these delightful fables appears elegantly handwritten in the Greek, alongside an English translation by Bernard McTigue, former Curator of the George Arents Collection and Keeper of Rare Books at The New York Public Library. An introduction by Everett Fahy, Chairman of the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, provides historical background on the development and popularity of Aesop’s fables, from their earliest known Greek sources to more recent versions, and on the artistry of the illuminations. An afterword by H. George Fletcher, Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections at The New York Public Library, summarizes recent research on the manuscript’s missing folios, its provenance, and the identity of the artist.

The Medici Aesop: NYPL Spencer 50 from the Spencer Collection of the New York Public Library

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Walt Whitman’s publication of Leaves of Grass, on July 4, 1855, stands as one of the more improbable achievements in American literary history. Nothing in the earlier writings of the thirty-six-year-old former Long Island schoolteacher, who himself received only six years of formal education, had suggested that he was capable of the revolutionary style or of the radically unorthodox combination of spiritual, sexual, and political sensibilities that make Leaves of Grass as much a prophetic teaching as a pioneering literary work. Today, 150 years after its first appearance, Leaves of Grass remains disturbingly honest and demanding, unique, and inimitable. Whitman himself warned his readers that he was not merely the affectionate, easy friend they might suppose, and in “I Am with You”—illustrated with images from an anniversary exhibition at The New York Public Library—Isaac Gewirtz, Curator of the Library’s renowned Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, explores and dissects the benign image of “the good gray poet.” This candid appreciation of the poet and his poetry includes frank appraisals of his views on racism, homosexuality, and women’s rights, yet always discerns the golden thread of Whitman’s intention: that a new American man and woman might join him on a “perpetual journey” of self-realization, discovering along the way that “All truths wait in all things.”

I Am with You: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-2005)

Isaac Gewirtz

Arts & Literature

MAKING THE SCENE: THE MID-TOWN Y PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 1972-1996

Stephen C. Pinson

Eminent Domain

Ligon, Glenn

Pinson, Stephen C.

New York Public Library

Kerouac At Bat: Fantasy Sports and the King of the Beats.

Kerouac, Jack, Gewirtz, Issac

The American boys' book of signs, signals and symbols

Politics & Social Sciences

Daniel Carter Beard

Social Sciences

Distinguished men of Baltimore and of Maryland

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