William M. Voelke is Curator Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the
Morgan Library & Museum, retired in September 2017 after 50 years there. In his position at the
Morgan, he organized many exhibitions, for which he published catalogues, and wrote numerous
articles, catalogue entries, and facsimile commentaries on a remarkably wide range of Romanesque,
Gothic, Renaissance, and even Islamic, illuminated manuscripts.
