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Dr. William Noel is Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, a position he took up in 1997. He received his Ph.D in 1993 from Cambridge University England. Among the Positions he has held are Director of Studies in the History of Art, Downing College, Cambridge University and Assistant Curator of Manuscripts, The J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

Will Noel is the author of The Harley Psalter, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology Vol. 4, Cambridge University Press 1995, a detailed investigation into the making of an illustrated eleventh-century Psalter. He is also co-editor and contributor to the exhibition catalogue: The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David, London, 1996. In 2002, together with Professor Daniel Weiss and Dr Griffith Mann, he curated an exhibition entitled The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible at The Walters Art Museum. His recent book, The Oxford Bible Pictures, Faksimile Verlag, Luzern and The Walters Art Museum, 2004, concerns a series of English miniatures of the thirteenth century in The Walters Art Museum. Since January 1999, Dr Noel has directed an international program to conserve, image and study the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for three treatise by the ancient Greek mathematician (www.archimedespalimpsest.org). He has co-written a popular account of the project, entitled The Archimedes Codex, together with professor Reviel Netz, which published by Wiedenfeld and Nicolson (2007).

Dr Noel has taught and lectured widely. Dr Noel is on the Faculty of Rare Book School, University of Virginia, and he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of History of Art, Johns Hopkins University. Will likes reading and sailing.

Books Edited

• Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum and Related Essays in Honor of Gary Vikan, Journal of the Walters Art Museum, 63, 2004, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2005.
• The Book of Kings: Art, War, and The Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible, with D. Weiss, Lingfield, Surrey, and Baltimore, 2002.
• New Offerings, Ancient Treasures: Studies in Medieval Art in Honour of George Henderson, with P. Binski, Stroud, 2001.
• The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David, with K. van der Horst and W.C.M.Wustefeld, London/MS t'Goy, 1996,

Articles

• "William De Brailes in Baltimore, Paris, and Stockholm ", in J. Hamburger and A. Korteweg (eds) Tributes in Honor of James Marrow, Brepols and ?Harvey Miller, 2006, pp.
• The Multispectral Imaging of the Archimedes Palimpsest ", with Roger Easton, Gazette du Livre M?di?vale, 45, 2004, pp.39-49.
• "Books in the Home: Psalters and Books of Hours ", in J. Van der Stock (ed), Medieval Mastery: Flemish book illumination from the time of Charles the ?Great to Philip the Bold, Exhibition Catalogue, Leuven, 2002, pp.57-67.
• "The First Iconographer of the Picture Bible ", in W. Noel and D. Weiss (eds), The Book of Kings: Art, War, and The Morgan Library's Medieval Picture ?Bible, 2002, pp.109-119.
• "The Archimedes Palimpsest: Old Science Meets New Science ", Proceedings of the PICS Conference in Digital Image Capture, Montreal, April ?2001.
• "Psalters ", in J. Tanis (ed), Leaves of Gold: Manuscripts from Philadelphia Collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalogue, ?2001, pp.44-58
• "From Calf to Codex " with Abigail Quandt in J. Tanis (ed), Leaves of Gold: Manuscripts from Philadelphia Collections, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalogue, 2001, pp.14-20.
• "Medieval Charades and the Visual Syntax of the Utrecht Psalter ", in B. Cassidy (ed), Studies in Medieval Psalter Illustration, Stamford, 2000, pp.34-41.
• "The Art of the Printed Book before Durer " (with Abigail Cuthbertson), in The Book Arts in the Age of Durer, W. Noel, S. Dackerman, and B. Miller (eds), Exhibition Catalogue, Baltimore Museum of Art, 2000, pp.5-11.
• "The Lost Canterbury Prototype of the11th-Century Bury St Edmunds Psalter ", in A. Gransden (ed), Bury St Edmunds: Medieval Art, Architecture, Archaeology and Economy. The British Archaeological Association Conference ?Transactions, XX, London, 1998, pp.161-171.
• "Het Utrechts Psalterium ", with K. van der Horst, Kunstschrift, August 1996.
• "The Utrecht Psalter in England 1000-1350: Continuity and Experiment " in K. van der Horst, W. Noel, and W.M.C. Wustefeld (eds), The Utrecht Psalter ?in Medieval Art; Picturing the Psalms of David, London/ MS t'Goy, 1996, ?pp.121-165.
• "The Division of Work in the Harley Psalter ", in L.L. Brownrigg (ed), Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, Los Altos Hills, 1995, ?pp.1-15. Catalogue / Encyclopedia Entries
• "The Harley Psalter ", in M. Holcombe (ed.) Pen and Parchment: the Art of Drawing in the Middle Ages exhibition catalogue (New York, Metropolitan ?Museum of Art, 2009), cat. entry, (forthcoming)
• Six catalogue entries in J. Van der Stock (ed), Medieval Mastery: Flemish book illumination from the time of Charles the Great to Philip the ?Bold, Exhibition Catalogue, Leuven, 2002.
• Two catalogue entries in M. Lapidge, J. Blair, S. Keynes and D. Scragg (eds), The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford, 1999.

Digital Media

• archimedespalimpsest.net
  This website contains the core results of ten years work on the Archimedes' Palimpsest. It is an integrated digital product, containing images of the Archimedes Palimpsest, transcriptions made from those images of unique ancient texts, associated metadata and supporting documentation, launched in 2008.
• archimedespalimpsest.org
  A website dedicated to the Archimedes Palimpsest Project, designed to provide information both for specialists and the general public, since 2000.
• The Book of Kings. Writer and director of 12 minute video to accompany
• The Book of Kings: Art, War, and The Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible, John Dean Museum Video Productions, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (2002) and The Princeton Art Museum (2004).
• Interactive Touch Screen Kiosk:
  conceived, co-wrote text for an interactive touch screen kiosk in the reinstalled manuscript gallery of The Walters Art Museum, Feral Film and Interactive, 2001.
• The Archimedes Palimpsest, Executive producer, writer, and narrator of a 20 minute video, to accompany Eureka! The Archimedes Palimpsest, The Walters ?Art Gallery, Baltimore; The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Spicer ?Productions, Baltimore, 1999.