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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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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

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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

Abigail Quandt and Adam Gacek examine Koran

Abigail Quandt and Adam Gacek examine Koran, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

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....

Calligraphic page from an album, Walters Art Museum W.672, fol. 2b

Calligraphic page from an album, Walters Art Museum W.672, fol. 2b, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

Seyh Hamdullah, the great ottoman scribe, seems to have written this extraordinary album, put up by WAM on Flickr today

Decorated page from Illuminated page, from Poems (tarji'band), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.651, fol. 3b

Decorated page from Illuminated page, from Poems (tarji'band), Walters Art Museum Ms. W.651, fol. 3b, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

One of the delightful things about digitizing the Islamic Collection is that sometimes I see things that I did not know we had. This beautiful manuscript is new to me

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

A beautifully calligraphed copy of a poem in honor of the prophet walters NEH Manuscript http://ping.fm/eA1Vi

consummate calligraphy
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Twelfth Century Square Koran manuscript incipit page, Walters NEH Islamic http://ping.fm/97UZo