Digitized Walters Manuscripts

This page links to high-resolution archival images of entire manuscripts and printed books from the collection of the Walters Art Museum, along with detailed catalog descriptions. They are available for free under a Creative Commons -- CC0 license. All manuscript images and descriptions created between 2008-2015 were made possible through Preservation and Access grants awarded to the Walters Art Museum by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Images are offered in four sizes:

Master TIFF (600PPI for text pages/1200PPI [or highest resolution attainable] for illuminated pages 300PPI TIFF JPEG (1800 pixels on the long side) Thumbnail JPEG (190 pixels on the long side)

For a virtual page-turning presentation of digitized manuscripts from the Walters collection, visit the Walters Art Museum’s Ex Libris site. This site, launched in August 2016, is the official interactive version of the Digital Walters. It also allows users to perform general category and keyword searches throughout the digitized manuscript collection.

For an animated “turning the pages” presentation of the manuscripts and downloadable PDFs, visit the Walters Art Museum’s Works of Art Web site. Manuscripts that have pages on the Walters Works of Site have links that say "art.thewalters.org".

For information on license and usage, citation style, etc., please refer to the ReadMe file.

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