Sunday, December 19, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.582, fol.14b

A beautifully calligraphed and illuminated small codex containing the famous poem in honor of the prophet Muhammad, popularly known as Qaṣīdat al-Burdah (“The poem of the Mantle”), composed by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (d.694 AH / 1294 CE) and executed in a number of scripts, probably in Iran, by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī in the 11th AH / 17th CE century.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=23935

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Treasure Binding, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.8

The Treasure Binding to our Ottonian Gospel Book, W.8, has just been conserved at The walters by Meg Craft. I took this snap shot, and i think it looks magnificent

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Plowing and Selling Produce, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.749a

Above a farmer plows; below a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. Such scenes of everyday activities became especially popular in the medium of drawing. On the rocks in the center foreground of this tinted wash drawing is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters of 17th-century Iran, Riza ‘Abbasi. As the signature on the painting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza’s work may have attributed the painting to him. The inscription Riz̤ā ʿAbbāsī appears in the rocks in the center foreground. The image is surrounded by a two-toned floral and fauna motifs borders on pink-tinted paper.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

The Medieval Book. Glosses from Friends & Colleagues of Christopher de Hamel

Just out, edited by Jim Marrow, Richard Linenthal and myself; over forty six contributors - scholars, dealers, collectors. Lavishly illustrated, designed by the great Jerry Kelly, published by Hes & De Graaf, and available here and now! 

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Five poems (quintet), Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.624, fol.58a

This is a deluxe copy of the Quintet (Khamsah) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d.725 AH /1325 CE). Although now incomplete, this manuscript was penned in nastaʿlīq script by the famous late 16th century Mughal calligrapher Muḥammad Ḥusayn Zarrīn Qalam al-Kashmīrī and decorated by a number of illuminators and painters. Its illustrations are signed by eleven painters: Laʿl (Lāl), Manūhar, Sānwalah, Farrukh, Alīqulī, Dharamdās, Narsing, Jagannāth, Miskīnā, Mukund, and Sūrdās Gujarātī. On the other hand, its headpieces and a medallion are inscribed with the names of Ḥusayn Naqqāsh, Manṣūr Naqqāsh, Khvājah Jān Shīrāzī, and Luṭf Allāh Muẕahhib. The codex has beautifully decorated borders with vegetal, bird, animal motifs and human figures. The figures are portrayed in various traditional activities such as praying, reading and hunting. Khusraw and Shīrīn preside over the wedding of youths.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript The island of Syros (Sire) in the Aegean Sea, from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.113b

Originally composed in 932 AH / 1525 CE and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent"), this great work by Piri Reis (d. 962 AH / 1555 CE) on navigation was later revised and expanded. The present manuscript, made mostly in the late 11th AH / 17th CE century, is based on the later expanded version with some 240 exquisitely executed maps and portolan charts. They include a world map (fol.41a) with the outline of the Americas, as well as coastlines (bays, capes, peninsulas), islands, mountains and cities of the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea. The work starts with the description of the coastline of Anatolia and the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Peloponnese peninsula and eastern and western coasts of the Adriatic Sea. It then proceeds to describe the western shores of Italy, southern France, Spain, North Africa, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, western Anatolia, various islands north of Crete, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus and the Black Sea. It ends with a map of the shores of the the Caspian Sea (fol.374a).

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=19195

Friday, December 3, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Koran, Text page with illuminated heading for chapter 79, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.562, fol.5b

A leaf from an elegantly calligraphed and illuminated large codex containing a part of the Qur'an with the suras 78 through 114 and executed probably in Iran in the 9th AH / 15th CE century.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=40834

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Poem Suz va gudaz, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.649, fol. 17b

An elegantly calligraphed, illuminated and illustrated copy of the poem Sūz va gudāz ('Burning and melting') by Nawʿī Khabūshānī (d.1019 AH /1610 CE) which recounts the love story of a Hindu girl who decides to burn herself on the pyre of her betrothed killed accidentally just before their marriage. The present codex was penned by Ibn Sayyid Murād al-Ḥusaynī and illustrated by Muḥammad ʿAlī Mashhadī in 1068 AH / 1657 CE. Here Prince Dāniyāl accompanies the girl to the funeral pyre.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=30391

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Decorated page, from Poems (tarji'band), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.651, fol. 2a

This is an illuminated and illustrated manuscript of a small collection of short love poems of the type called tarjī`band by Nūr al-Dīn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d. 898 AH / 1492 CE). It was copied in black nasta‘līq script by the calligrapher Muḥammad Zamān al-Tabrīzī in 998 AH / 1589-90 CE in Safavid Iran. The text is written on orange tinted paper and the bluish-green borders are illuminated throughout. The manuscript opens with an illuminated incipit page with a headpiece (1b) and there are two illustrations (3a, 6a). The Qajar lacquer binding is decorated with floral motifs and is inscribed with verses attributed to Imām ‘Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib. This text page is written in nasta‘līq script on orange tinted paper by the calligrapher Muḥammad Zamān al-Tabrīzī in 998 AH / 1589-90 CE in Safavid Iran. The bluish-green borders are illuminated in an early Safavid style.

19th century photos of Mecca published by @hesdegraaf http://ping.fm/K1YRZ

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript, Gospels, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.592, fol. 2b

This illuminated and illustrated Arabic manuscript of the Gospels by Matthew (Mattá), Mark (Marquṣ), Luke (Lūqā), and John (Yūḥannā) was copied in Egypt by Ilyās Bāsim Khūrī Bazzī Rāhib, who was most likely a Coptic monk, in Anno Mundi 7192 / 1684 CE. The text is written in naskh in black ink with rubrics in red. Painted floral composition ending the preface to the Gospel of Matthew.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Five poems (quintet), Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.624, fol.42a

This is a deluxe copy of the Quintet (Khamsah) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d.725 AH /1325 CE). Although now incomplete, this manuscript was penned in nastaʿlīq script by the famous late 16th century Mughal calligrapher Muḥammad Ḥusayn Zarrīn Qalam al-Kashmīrī and decorated by a number of illuminators and painters. Its illustrations are signed by eleven painters: Laʿl (Lāl), Manūhar, Sānwalah, Farrukh, Alīqulī, Dharamdās, Narsing, Jagannāth, Miskīnā, Mukund, and Sūrdās Gujarātī. On the other hand, its headpieces and a medallion are inscribed with the names of Ḥusayn Naqqāsh, Manṣūr Naqqāsh, Khvājah Jān Shīrāzī, and Luṭf Allāh Muẕahhib. The codex has beautifully decorated borders with vegetal, bird, animal motifs and human figures. The figures are portrayed in various traditional activities such as praying, reading and hunting. Frontsipiece to the 2nd book of the Khamsah,Shīrīn va Khusraw, signed ʿamal-i ʿamal-i Ḥusayn Naqqāsh.

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Khamsa, Walters Art Museum Ms. 609, fol. 25a

An elegantly illuminated and illustrated copy of the Khamsah (quintet) of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d.605 AH / 1209 CE) executed by Yār Muḥammad al-Haravī in 922 AH / 1516 CE. Written in four columns in black nastaʿlīq script, this manuscripts opens with a double-page decorative composition signed by ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ibn ʿAlī, of which this is one side. It contains 35 miniatures. Two scholars quarreling in the presence of the king. The inscription on the left reads al-sulṭān al-ʿādil.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=21272

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript, Map of the city of Ferrara with the six rivers flowing into the Gulf of Venice from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.187a

Originally composed in 932 AH / 1525 CE and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent"), this great work by Piri Reis (d. 962 AH / 1555 CE) on navigation was later revised and expanded. The present manuscript, made mostly in the late 11th AH / 17th CE century, is based on the later expanded version with some 240 exquisitely executed maps and portolan charts. They include a world map (fol.41a) with the outline of the Americas, as well as coastlines (bays, capes, peninsulas), islands, mountains and cities of the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea. The work starts with the description of the coastline of Anatolia and the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Peloponnese peninsula and eastern and western coasts of the Adriatic Sea. It then proceeds to describe the western shores of Italy, southern France, Spain, North Africa, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, western Anatolia, various islands north of Crete, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus and the Black Sea. It ends with a map of the shores of the the Caspian Sea (fol.374a).

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies (DigiIslam)

This Review of User Requirements for Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies commission by JISC, and out of the University of Exeter, is a truly excellent assessment of the situation in 2008, and a really important benchmark document, which goes by the name of DigiIslam.

Collection of poems (masnavi), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.625, fol. 256b

Floral and foliate decoration in gold. Leaf from an elegantly calligraphed and illuminated copy of the collection of poems, known as Mas̱navī-i maʿnavī, by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (d.672 AH / 1273 CE). This codex was penned by Aḥmad ibn Ḥājjī Abī Bakr al-Kātib in 865 AH / 1461 CE.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
www.art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=22125

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Great manuscript of the Koran, ninth century, beautiful calligraphy walters NEH islamic http://ping.fm/4lB5A

Monday, November 8, 2010

Five poems (quintet), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.607, fol. 29b


This is an illustrated copy of four of the five poems that comprise the Khamsah of Niẓāmī Ganjavī (d.605 AH / 1209 CE). It does not include Laylá va Majnūn. The text was copied by a certain Yādkār the Calligrapher (al-Kātib) in 935 AH / 1529 CE, most probably in Safavid Iran. An illuminated double-page composition opens the manuscript and each poem is initiated with a decorative headpiece. The miniatures appear to have been repainted at some point in the manuscript’s history. Their date and provenance are open to question. The textblock is bound in late Zand lacquer covers with scenes depicting Bahrām Gūr hunting and Khusraw watching Shīrīn bathing. At a court gathering an old woman speaks with a confidant of King Jamshīd.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=17718

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Anthology of Persian poetry, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.653, fol. 19b

This small anthology of Persian poetry consisting of poems by such authors as Jāmī, Azārī, Fayz̤ī, Navāʾī, and Saʿdī was put together by an anonymous scribe in 1105 AH / 1693 CE. Illustrated with six miniatures, the margins of this manuscript are embellished with stenciled designs of angels, men and animals. The folio illustrates a young man standing with a pomegranate in his right hand.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=19402

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Koran, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.552, fol. 2a

A leaf from a fragment of the Koran (Qur'an) on parchment in horizontal format covering chapters 6 (al-Anʿām), verse 55 through 9 (al-Tawbah), verse 79 executed in an Early Abbasid script ('Kufic'), with chapter headings in gold ink, most probably in the 3rd AH / 9th CE century.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Museum Website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=1528

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript of Poems by Jami, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.641, fol. 1b

The beginning of a book containing a selection of poems by the celebrated Nūr al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī (d.898/1492) penned in Herat (present-day Afghanistan) by Sulṭān ʿAlī in 899 AH / 1493-4 CE. Rectangular headpiece with the inscription in a decorated gold New Abbasid Style ('broken cursive') on deep-blue background reading: Allāh wa-lā siwāhu.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=11787

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

1st image of West. Ms being taken. 30,000 to go. Ms. W.782, Hours, Cath of Cleves, cover http://ping.fm/guEhn

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript of One Hundred Sayings, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.615, fol. 3a

This beautifully illuminated manuscript contains One hundred sayings, known in Arabic as Mi’at kalimah and in Persian as Ṣad kalimah, attribted to of ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib, the fourth caliph of Islam, as well as a Persian paraphrase (dubayt) by Rashīd al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Balkhī, known as al-Waṭwāṭ (Vaṭvāṭ) (d. ca. 578 AH / 1182 CE). This polychrome text, using a number of scripts, was executed by an anonymous artist most probably in the 9th AH / 15th century.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=5052

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript of Collection of prayers for the Prophet Muhammad, The right side of a double page composition featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr and ʿUmar, Walters Ms. W.583, fol. 15b

This is a leaf from anelegantly penned and illuminated copy of the well-known collection of prayers for the prophet Muhammad entitled Dalāʾil al-khayrāt and composed by Muḥammad al-Jazūlī (d.877 AH / 1472 CE). Written on paper in Turkish naskh script, this prayer book was probably made in the 11th AH / 17th CE century. It contains an illustration featuring the mosque compound in Medina with the tombs of Muhammad, Abū Bakr and ʿUma

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=30971

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Collected works (Kulliyat), Walters Art Museum Ms. 617, fol. 306a

Illuminated Manuscript Collected works (Kulliyat), Walters Art Museum Ms. 617, fol. 306a

An illuminated and illustrated copy of the collected works of Sa`di (d.691/1292) (Kullīyāt-i Saʿdī) containing, among others, his Gulistān and Bustān. The present manuscript was penned by an anonymous calligrapher in Shiraz (Iran) in 934 AH / 1527 CE. The two poets Saʿdī and Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=22469

Friday, October 29, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Koran, Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.561, fol. 12b

A leaf from an elegantly calligraphed and illuminated large format codex of the Koran (Qur'an) made for the library of the Mamluk official Aytimish al-Bajāsī (d. 802 AH / 1400 CE). This manuscript, bound in the original beautifully decorated covers, represents volume two (al-juzʾ al-thānī) of a set of original 30 volumes and contains a portion of the 2nd chapter (sūrat al-Baqarah), verses 142-252.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=25339

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Poem in Honor of the Prophet Muhammad, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.582, fol. 3a

A beautifully calligraphed and illuminated small codex containing the famous poem in honor of the prophet Muhammad, popularly known as Qaṣīdat al-Burdah (“The poem of the Mantle”), composed by Sharaf al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Būṣīrī (d.694 AH / 1294 CE) and executed in a number of scripts, probably in Iran, by Ḥabīb Allāh ibn Dūst Muḥammad al-Khwārizmī in the 11th AH / 17th CE century.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=23935

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Al-Qurʾān from Koran, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.853.II, fol.1b

This manuscripts is volume two (chapters 19-114) of a decorated two-volume set of the Koran (Qur'an) produced in sub-Saharan (West) Africa in the 13th century AH / 19th CE. Written in Sūdānī script on loose leaves, this manuscript is enclosed in two decorated covers and a leather pouch (satchel).

Illuminated Manuscript, Map of the Nile River with various oases on each as far as Sīdī Maʿrūf from Book on Navigation, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol.310b

Originally composed in 932 AH / 1525 CE and dedicated to Sultan Süleyman I ("The Magnificent"), this great work by Piri Reis (d. 962 AH / 1555 CE) on navigation was later revised and expanded. The present manuscript, made mostly in the late 11th AH / 17th CE century, is based on the later expanded version with some 240 exquisitely executed maps and portolan charts. They include a world map (fol.41a) with the outline of the Americas, as well as coastlines (bays, capes, peninsulas), islands, mountains and cities of the Mediterranean basin and the Black Sea. The work starts with the description of the coastline of Anatolia and the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Peloponnese peninsula and eastern and western coasts of the Adriatic Sea. It then proceeds to describe the western shores of Italy, southern France, Spain, North Africa, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, western Anatolia, various islands north of Crete, Sea of Marmara, Bosporus and the Black Sea. It ends with a map of the shores of the the Caspian Sea (fol.374a).

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=19195

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Five poems (quintet), Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.624, fol.35a

This is a deluxe copy of the Quintet (Khamsah) of Amīr Khusraw Dihlavī (d.725 AH /1325 CE). Although now incomplete, this manuscript was penned in nastaʿlīq script by the famous late 16th century Mughal calligrapher Muḥammad Ḥusayn Zarrīn Qalam al-Kashmīrī and decorated by a number of illuminators and painters. Its illustrations are signed by eleven painters: Laʿl (Lāl), Manūhar, Sānwalah, Farrukh, Alīqulī, Dharamdās, Narsing, Jagannāth, Miskīnā, Mukund, and Sūrdās Gujarātī. On the other hand, its headpieces and a medallion are inscribed with the names of Ḥusayn Naqqāsh, Manṣūr Naqqāsh, Khvājah Jān Shīrāzī, and Luṭf Allāh Muẕahhib. The codex has beautifully decorated borders with vegetal, bird, animal motifs and human figures. The figures are portrayed in various traditional activities such as praying, reading and hunting. Here an old Sufi laments his lost youth.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Penicillin in the Palimpsest

The Archimedes Palimpsest suffers from mold, which we needed to investigate. Abigail Quandt had it looked at with an SEM. Here is the result showing the collagen of the parchment, and little mold spores.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Not all of the Archimedes Palimpsest is at The Walters Art Museum:http://ping.fm/PDVnr

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Map of Cairo, from Book on Navigation, Walters Ms. W.658, fol. 305b

This is our most popular image on Flickr: A view of Cairo from our Piri Reis Atlas. I love the River Nile in Silver, and the Pyramid of Cheops at the top right.

Friday, October 8, 2010

At work you should  only "do stuff that matters". At home you should do lots of stuff that doesn't. 
@WillNoel: The Walters is creating Digital Surrogates of Islamic manuscripts under a CC License. Here are examples: http://ow.ly/2wOob
Illuminated Mughal manuscript of the Memoirs of Babur from walters neh The Story so far http://ow.ly/QOxk
Walters Ottoman Atlas Maps of Med. Piri Reis islamic illuminated manuscript neh - the story so far http://ow.ly/1x6cc

Thursday, September 30, 2010

check out a virtual and growing library of beautiful Islamic illuminated manuscripts walters neh http://ping.fm/Vad3q

Sunday, September 26, 2010

British Library digitizes Greek Manuscripts http://ping.fm/atZmf
Walters Ottoman Atlas Maps of Med. Piri Reis islamic illuminated manuscript neh - the story so far http://ow.ly/1x6cc
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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Burn Korans? No, digitize them! Share their beauty and the sophistication of the cultures that made them http://ow.ly/2ChJ2

The Education of The Young


IMG_2471, originally uploaded by lransom.

It is impossible to start people too early on medieval manuscripts. Here is Henry encountering them for the first time with our friends Larry and Barbara

Friday, September 24, 2010

Abigail Quandt and Adam Gacek examine Koran

Adam Gacek catalogues our Islamic manuscripts remotely, using a web based cataloguing tool designed by Doug Emery of Emery IT especially for the purpose. But he does make periodic vists to the Walters to Study the actual manuscripts. here he is studying a Koran with Abigail Quandt, Senior Conservator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters.

Anxiously awaiting text on Archimedes from some very clever friends. Deadlines...deadlines....

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Island of Skyros from Ottoman manuscript atlas c.1700, walters NEH map cc http://ping.fm/ONSQo

Saturday, September 18, 2010

A beautifully calligraphed copy of a poem in honor of the prophet walters NEH Manuscript http://ping.fm/eA1Vi
consummate calligraphy
http://ping.fm/r9WB6
Twelfth Century Square Koran manuscript incipit page, Walters NEH Islamic http://ping.fm/97UZo

Monday, July 5, 2010

The first framed fully conserved leaf of the Archimedes Palimpsest


photo, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

Abigail Quandt, Senior Conservator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters, holds the first completely conserved leaf of the Archimedes Palimpsest. After more than 10 years of service in the cause of Archimedes, this lends a special touch of freedom to this July 4, 2010 weekend.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Walters Curator Amy Landau on Walters Islamic manuscripts

Amy Landau, Assistant Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters, discusses Henry walters Islamic manuscripts, and their digitization and distribution under a creative Commons License with Menachem Wecker here. 

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Illuminated Manuscript Koran, Illuminated incipit page with headpiece inscribed with the chapter heading for Sūrat Maryam, Walters Art Museum Ms. 568, fol. 1b

One of our most popular images is this one - A truly spectacular illuminated incipit page of a Koran. This Koran is written on Italian paper in a large Maghribi script, with vocalization in red ink, in the 12th AH / 18th CE century.

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=38427

Sunday, April 25, 2010

NEH uses Walters grant application as model

The Walters was recently awarded a grant from the NEH for the
digitization of its English, Dutch, German, Byzantine, Armenian and
Ethiopian Mss. They used the application as a model for next year's
applicants http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/HCRRsamples/Walters.pdf

Google Fiber and Digital Manuscripts at The Walters

The manuscript digitization initiatives at The Walters, like Hubble Space Telescope data, were used to bolster Baltimore's campaign in response to the Google Fiber Challenge: check out Behind the Scenes

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Medieval News: Museum's digitization projects offers access to medieval manuscripts

Interview with me by medievalnews.net, concerning manuscript digitization initiatives at The Walters http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2010/04/museums-digitization-projects-offers.html

Five poems (quintet), Walters Art Museum, Ms. W.624, fol.203b

This is one of the Walters Art Museum's great masterpieces, and I am glad to get images of it up online

Turning Pages of Ancient Manuscripts

The best place to virtually turn pages of Islamic manuscripts, is at The Walters Art Museum. Just click on a book, and away you go. But remember that Islamic Books read from right to left, and not left to right!
Currently in a holding pattern at 1413 Jordan Street, waiting for a baby and learning how to blog :)

Flickring Medieval Manuscripts


The notion of posting one medieval manuscript image a day onto Flickr for the rest of my working life is immensely appealing, whether or not anyone watches. So farm, people are watching because I tweet about them. But its time I started blogging too. So here goes! I like this one, its a page from a ninth century Koran at the Walters, written in Kufic script with that Typical oblong format.