William Noel
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Walters Art Museum
William Noel received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1993. He has served as Director of Studies in the History of Art at Downing College, Cambridge University, and as Assistant Curator of Manuscripts at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles. Noel is the author of The Harley Psalter (1995), an in-depth investigation into the making of an illustrated 11th-century Psalter. He is also co-editor and contributor of the exhibition catalogue The Utrecht Psalter in Medieval Art: Picturing the Psalms of David (1996). In 2002, together with Daniel Weiss and Griffith Mann, he curated the exhibition The Book of Kings: Art, War, and the Morgan Library's Medieval Picture Bible. His recent book, The Oxford Bible Pictures (2004), concerns a series of English miniatures of the 13th-century at the Walters. Since January 1999, Noel has directed an international program to conserve, image and study the Archimedes Palimpsest, the unique source for three treatises by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes (www.archimedespalimpsest.org). He has co-written with Reviel Netz a popular account of the project entitled The Archimedes Codex (2007). Noel has taught and lectured widely. He is on the faculty of theRare Book School, University of Virginia, and is an Adjunct Professor at The Johns Hopkins University.
