Dr Israel M. Sandman continues his exploration of the ḤaBaD Hasidic manuscripts in the Rylands’ collection, exploring the authoritativeness of various manuscripts, and methods for maintaining textual accuracy.
The story of an annotated copy of Avicenna’s medical writings in Hebrew translation that was thought to be lost for almost one and a half centuries and turned out to be hiding in the University of Manchester Library.
Dr Israel M. Sandman explores some fascinating aspects of the Rylands’ ḤaBaD Hasidic manuscripts collection, all available online now.
Catch a glimpse of a hidden gem of the Rylands Hebrew Manuscripts Collection.
Learn about a curious prognostic technique called onomancy.
Among the many manuscripts bought from the famous rabbi and scholar Moses Gaster (1856-1939), the John Rylands Library holds a curious copy of a Karaite work.
To mark the festival of Purim, Zsofia Buda discusses our recently digitised collection of Esther scrolls.
A Judeo-Occitan (Judeo-Provençal) manuscript in the Hebrew manuscript collection of the John Rylands Library, may turn out to be theContinue Reading
In the first part of this blog, I introduced the magical signs called charaktêres that you can encounter in Jewish magical manuscripts. OriginallyContinue Reading
“[To gain] favour and grace, write on your right hand these seals [ḥotamot], then wipe them with olive oil, andContinue Reading