Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The Black Hours at the Morgan Library & Museum

Perspectives from a Conservator and a Curator

Join Frank Trujillo, Drue Heinz Book Conservator, and Roger S. Wieck, Melvin R. Seiden Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, for a discussion of the Morgan's Black Hours. A fifteenth-century manuscript illuminated on colored parchment, this Book of Hours is one of only a handful of similar manuscripts in collections worldwide.  The presentation will delve into the story of the manufacture of the codex, scientific analysis to identify the black colorant, and, from a curatorial viewpoint, observations of some riddles the book poses.

Held Wednesday, June 17, 2020.