Dante and Petrarch in Florence
As part of our commitment to sharing our collections as widely as possible, we regularly loans printed books and manuscriptsContinue Reading
Author: John Hodgson
John Hodgson is Head of Special Collections at The University of Manchester Library.
Library Acquires Important Holman Hunt Letters
The Library already holds one of the most important collections of letters and papers of the Pre-Raphaelite artist William HolmanContinue Reading
Armenian Printing in London
A recent enquiry from John A. Lane, a freelance historian of printing types, typefounding and type specimens, who has justContinue Reading
Living with Uniformity: the Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689
Living with Uniformity: the Church of England and Dissent, 1662 to 1689, A conference to mark the 350th anniversary ofContinue Reading
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Celebrations
To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we thought it would be nice to show a couple of images from the UniversityContinue Reading
Christianus Prolianus’s Astronomia manuscript now digitised
Several of our Latin manuscripts have recently been fully digitised at the request of Professor Kate Cooper, in support ofContinue Reading
Visit by Mike Toth from the Baltimore Palimpsest Project
Yesterday we had a fascinating visit from Mike Toth, manager of the Archimedes Palimpsest Project at the Walters Art MuseumContinue Reading
“In case of hysterical suffocation, take dried otters’ kidneys…”
Last Thursday the John Rylands Library hosted a dinner on behalf of Cancer Research UK and the new Manchester Cancer Research CentreContinue Reading
Welcome to our blog
Welcome to the John Rylands Library’s Special Collection blog. With fabulous collections and lots of exciting things going on, weContinue Reading