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Show COLLECTION Of ; RARE TREASURES , -Mannscript Representing' t Rarest Specimens of Art in Middle Ages Owned by ; J. P. Morgan Exhibited. YORK, Oct.. 13. A large nam-;ber nam-;ber of; people viewed the J. Pierpont Morgan collection pf illuminated man ruscripts which was exhibited at Columbia Colum-bia university yesterday for he first ' " ' ' : time. ., The manuscripts represented some of , the rarest specimens of art in the mid-fdle mid-fdle ages. There are sixty-three vol-nrnes vol-nrnes xa alL representing nearly every country in Europe, and all of them are - ; from 200 to 1200 years old. . The oldest are samples .ct the Chris-tian Chris-tian art of the eighth century. One ' .of them, a Life ef Christy eoatams thirty thir-ty full-page miniatures in . brilliant .coloring, in which gold predominates. The specimens of English painting con-i con-i tain a Bestiary of the year 1150, with 100 miniatures of birds and beasts. |