Walters To Digitize Manuscripts
by Leslie Ofori
The Walters Art Museum a public art museum in Baltimore, Maryland has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant of $315,000, will be used over a period of 2 ½ years in a project that will allow the museum to digitize, catalog and distribute 105 illuminated medieval manuscripts. The manuscripts represent a wide array of cultures including: Byzantine, Greek, Armenian, Ethiopian,Dutch, English and Central European cultures. The project entitled ‘Parchment to Pixel: Creating a Digital Resource of Medieval Manuscripts", will digitize roughly 38,000 pages of ancient text and 3,500 pages of illumination.
