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| | Ancient, Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts Collections |
 | | From Ethiopia to England, Paris to Persia, Byzantium to Bohemia, the illuminated manuscript collection provides a comprehensive view of manuscript production and decoration throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with highlights that include a manuscript used by St. Francis, epic tales enjoyed by Mughal emperors, letters of Catharine the Great, and Napoleon’s diary. |
 | | Many of these manuscripts are religious in nature; in addition to Bibles, antiphonals, and other liturgical books, the Walters possesses one of the finest collections of medieval illuminated Books of Hours in the world. |
 | | Working with the museum's conservation division, scientists, and textual scholars, manuscript curators are conserving, imaging, and studying the Archimedes palimpsest – an astonishing manuscript lent to the museum by a private collector that conceals beneath an 13th-century prayerbook the texts of two treatises by Archimedes that were thought to be lost until now. |
| www.thewalters.org /works_of_art/manuscripts_illuminated_antiquity.aspx (283 words) |
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