Incunabula Cataloguing Project. Number 11: Blockbooks (Part 5) – The Art of Memory
In this final blog on the John Rylands Library’s collection of 15th-century blockbooks, we take a look at the memory aid known as the “Ars memorandi”
Category: Early print
Incunabula Cataloguing Project. X: Blockbooks (Part 4) – The Mirabilia Romae and the Chiromantia
Continuing our look at the blockbooks in the John Rylands Library: an early guidebook to Rome and a book on the art of palm-reading
The Saint Christopher woodcut dated 1423
Guest author Ed Potten discusses the dating of the unique St Christopher woodcut
Introducing the Early European Print collection
John Gandy, Incunabula Cataloguer at the John Rylands Library, talks about the newly published early printing collection on Manchester Digital Collections