Incunabula Cataloguing Project. II: The first printed edition of Virgil
A rare and treasured copy of the first edition of the works of the greatest Roman poet
Month: August 2023
Unlocking the secrets of English MS 24
The mysterious History of the Phoolkian family
From the Valley of Mexico to the Rylands: introducing Mexican MS 1
In this blog curator Dr Zsófia Buda shares the story of one of our three Mexican manuscripts.
Thank you for having me!
This blog post, the second in our series, summarises the University of Manchester’s ongoing research project on film critic Caroline Lejeune, with reference to the contents of her archive held at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library.
Elephants and Mahouts in Persianate South Asia
We celebrate World Elephant Day (12 August) with a guest blog post by Professor Fabrizio Speziale (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris-Marseille), on a Persian text about the origin of the mahout, or elephant keeper.
2023 Summer placement: Hannah McAuliffe
A blog by PhD placement student Hannah McAuliffe on her project with the Special Collections Teaching and Learning department.
Manchester is still alive
British Pop Archive curator Mat Bancroft writes about Manchester’s Cities In The Park festival from 1991.