Dr. William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books at the Walters
Art Museum, presented the Judge Robert I. H. Hammerman Memorial
Lecture on November 28th at the Evergreen Museum. Dr. Noel provided a
fascinating look at the 13th-century prayerbook known to conceal the
texts of two treaties by Archimedes. Loaned to the museum by a private
collector, the hidden texts are slowly being retrieved by conservators
and deciphered by scientists and textual scholars. The Judge Robert I. H. Hammerman Memorial Lecture was established in
2006 as a tribute to Judge Hammerman’s devotion to scholarship and
education for the greater Baltimore and Hopkins communities. | 
