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Interior view of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo by wallstreethotrod, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Museum’s medieval manuscripts going digital

Catherine Saunders-Watson
Catherine Saunders-Watson
Interior view of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo by wallstreethotrod, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Interior view of the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. Photo by wallstreethotrod, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

BALTIMORE (AP) – Medieval manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum are going digital.

The museum announced Monday that 105 medieval manuscripts will be digitally photographed, cataloged and distributed by 2012. A $315,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities is paying for the project.

Curator Will Noel says some of the greatest works of art from the Middle Ages that have never been seen will become available. People will be able to access the images for free on the museum’s Web site and other online outlets.

The project will include documents from Central Europe, Ethiopia and other regions.

The museum has 38,000 pages in its medieval manuscripts collection.

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Information from: The (Baltimore) Sun, http://www.baltimoresun.com

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