The Morgan Library & Museum will present The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World from Jan. 24 through May 25. At the exhibitions center is the Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders, tales of fantasy and reality intended for the medieval armchair traveler. Bringing together two of the four surviving copies of this rare text, one from the Morgans collection, the other from the J. Paul Getty Museum, the exhibition examines medieval conceptions and misconceptions of a global world. The related works on display bring to life the world of the Book of Marvels. Together, these objects demonstrate how foreign cultures were imagined in the Middle Ages and what the assumptions of medieval Europeans can tell us about their own implicit beliefs and biases. The exhibition also features Persian and Ottoman manuscripts that engage the theme from a non-European perspective. The show will be a rare chance to see these unusual ancient works. The Morgan Library and Museum is located at 225 Madison Ave. in New York City. To learn more, visit www.themorgan.org.