MD. MUSEUM WINS GRANT TO DIGITIZE MEDIEVAL BOOKS

The Associated Press State & Local Wire
March 27, 2012 Tuesday 7:53 PM GMT

The National Endowment for the Humanities is awarding the Walters
Art Museum in Baltimore a $265,000 grant to digitize, catalog and
distribute 113 medieval Flemish manuscripts, including a collection
of prayer books adorned with gold.

The three-year grant announced Tuesday will digitize 45,000 pages of
text and over 3,000 pages of illumination from the 13th through the
16th centuries in present-day France and Belgium.

The museum says a highlight will be the digitization of 80 Books
of Hours, which were prayer books that were “best sellers” in the
Middle Ages.

This is the third digitization grant for the Walters since 2008. At
that time, the museum was awarded $307,000 to digitize Islamic
manuscripts. The work continues with a $315,000 grant to digitize
Armenian, Byzantine, Dutch, English, Ethiopian and German manuscripts.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress