Walters will use grant to digitize historic manuscripts

(Baltimore Sun) The prized collection of medieval manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum - about 38,000 pages - is heading out of its usual, controlled environment and into the light. The light of computer screens, that is.Thanks to a $315,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, 105 medieval manuscripts from several centuries and cultures will be digitally photographed, cataloged and distributed during the next two and a half years. Continued

Image: Medieval scribe Jean Miélot, sitting at a desk, making a copy of another book (Library of Congress)