Medieval History
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $265,000 for a three-year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 113 illuminated medieval manuscripts from Flanders, present-day northeastern France and Belgium. This project, Imaging the Hours: Creating a Digital Resource of Flemish Manuscripts, will digitize 45,000 pages of text with over 3,000 pages of illumination from the 13th through 16th centuries. A highlight will be the digitization of a collection of 80 Books of Hours?prayer books of personal devotion?which were the ?bestsellers? of the Middle Ages, often sumptuously illuminated in gold and painted by masters of the time.
?Just as the Walters provides access without admission fee to our permanent collection, we are also making it available as part of our public mission. The museum is grateful to the NEH for its continued generous financial support allowing us to provide a free worldwide online resource of preservation-quality, digital manuscript surrogates to anyone with an Internet connection,? said Walters Director Gary Vikan.
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The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than 10,000 online artwork images through a Creative Commons license. In addition to being able to download these images...
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Call for Papers - Society of Biblical Literature 2013 annual meeting (Baltimore, MD: 11/23/2013-11/26/2013) The Art and Religions in Antiquity program unit welcomes paper proposals on the art and material culture of any ancient religious tradition and...
- Symposium On Medieval Collections At The Walters Art Museum, 21 May
You are cordially invited to attend the symposium ?A New Look at Old Things: Revisiting the Medieval Collections at the Walters,? to be held at the Walters Art Museum on Friday, May 21, 2010, from 10 to 5:30. This daylong event will feature a group of...
Medieval History
The Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Digitize Over 100 Flemish Manuscripts
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has granted the Walters Art Museum $265,000 for a three-year project to digitize, catalog and distribute 113 illuminated medieval manuscripts from Flanders, present-day northeastern France and Belgium. This project, Imaging the Hours: Creating a Digital Resource of Flemish Manuscripts, will digitize 45,000 pages of text with over 3,000 pages of illumination from the 13th through 16th centuries. A highlight will be the digitization of a collection of 80 Books of Hours?prayer books of personal devotion?which were the ?bestsellers? of the Middle Ages, often sumptuously illuminated in gold and painted by masters of the time.
?Just as the Walters provides access without admission fee to our permanent collection, we are also making it available as part of our public mission. The museum is grateful to the NEH for its continued generous financial support allowing us to provide a free worldwide online resource of preservation-quality, digital manuscript surrogates to anyone with an Internet connection,? said Walters Director Gary Vikan.
Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net
- Library Completes Digitization Of Medieval Manuscripts
The secrets of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the sixth floor of Van Pelt Library have now been revealed on the internet. A two-year grant funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities has allowed Penn to finish digitizing medieval...
- The Walters Art Museum Removes Copyright Restrictions From More Than 10,000 Images
The Walters Art Museum announces the launch of its redesigned works of art website with the removal of copyright restrictions on more than 10,000 online artwork images through a Creative Commons license. In addition to being able to download these images...
- Museum's Digitization Projects Offers Access To Medieval Manuscripts
An impressive project in digitizing manuscripts is proving that online resources can be created that will meet the needs of academic scholars and find an audience with the general public. The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, which is completing...
- Cfp Sbl
Call for Papers - Society of Biblical Literature 2013 annual meeting (Baltimore, MD: 11/23/2013-11/26/2013) The Art and Religions in Antiquity program unit welcomes paper proposals on the art and material culture of any ancient religious tradition and...
- Symposium On Medieval Collections At The Walters Art Museum, 21 May
You are cordially invited to attend the symposium ?A New Look at Old Things: Revisiting the Medieval Collections at the Walters,? to be held at the Walters Art Museum on Friday, May 21, 2010, from 10 to 5:30. This daylong event will feature a group of...