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One year in to the two year NEH project to create digital surrogates of all the Walters Art Museums illuminated Islamic Manuscripts and we are beginning to show some results. You can find lots of Images 1) on this Blog, under Will Noel's Photos. I have arranged several by manuscript under "Albums" 2) On Flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/medmss/, 3) And you can turn the pages of many manuscripts by clicking on the covers of Walters Islamic manuscripts at: http://art.thewalters.org/viewgalle… Continue

The Walters Art Museum has launched a major upgrade to its collections website. It includes nearly 5,000 searchable objects available to the public — whether local or across the globe. This is a dramatic increase over the approximately 800 objects of the previous version. As part of a larger Walters technology initiative, this site allows everyone from a casual virtual visitor to a renowned researcher to browse works of art records from antiquity to the 19th century by categories such as artist,… Continue

This blog is concerned with another project being undertaken at The Walters Art Museum, concerning a Syriac Palimpsest. Many - but not all of the same team as imaged the Archimedes Palimpsest, are involved in this project as well. Its a tough nut to crack. Look for contributions and updates on this blog. Continue

"The Archimedes Palimpsest" on Google Books is but one way in which the dataset at Archimedespalimpsest.net can be used, but it is a cool one. The images used are generated from the multispectral images and processed to strip away the prayerbook texts to reveal the undertexts in the folios. These pages have not been seen like this since they were erased and written over by Johannes Myronas in 1229. They are not the most legible images that the team has produced, but they are the most dramatic. A… Continue