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Wednesday
Apr182012

Walters Art Museum Receives $265,000 NEH Grant to Digitize Over 100 Flemish Manuscripts

DateWednesday, April 18, 2012 at 7:23PM

Flemish, Beaupre Antiphonal: Musician Angels and the Harrowing of Hell (detail), 1290, ink, paint and gold on parchment, 48.1 x 34.6 cm, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Gift of the William R. Hearst Foundation, 1957 (W.759.2R) (click photo for larger image)The digitalization of these illuminated medieval manuscripts will be an extraordinary gift to all of us. We will be able to view exquisite works of art that also happened to be “best sellers” in the Middle Ages!

BALTIMORE, MD.- 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.

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