Incunabula Cataloguing Project
3: Sweynheym and Pannartz, the first printers in Italy
Category: Long read
Incunabula Cataloguing Project
2: The first printed edition of the Roman poet Virgil
Ravenous Sheep and Wayward Shepherds, Stolen Corpses, and Wandering Wombs: A Look at some of the (Extra)Ordinary Documentary Papyri at the Rylands Library
Ancient documentary papryi are difficult to read, but with careful attention they often reveal our common humanity.
Incunabula Cataloguing Project
1: The first post on the Incunabula Cataloguing Project, discussing the cataloguing of our world-class collection of 15th-century printed books.
Endband On The Run
A blog about endbands, their function, and how French MS 62 managed to almost lose them twice by our Senior Conservator Mark Furness.
Iranian Languages and Scripts
This blog post discusses the history and development of Iranian languages and scripts in relation to manuscripts and documents preserved in the Rylands collections.
The Photography Collection: Photobooks by Women
Our extensive Photography Collection contains a grouping of photobooks by women. The purchase of these books was intended to act as a further step forward in diversifying the visual material within our Special Collections.
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 3 – Looking at the images
In Part 3 of our ICP placements series, MA students Kai and Yunshuang talk about some of the Li Yuan-chia images they have digitised from 35mm slides.
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 2 – How the students are getting on
In Part 2 of our ICP placements series, MA students Kai and Yunshuang reflect on their experience so far.
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 1 – Specialist digitisation of the Li Yuan-chia Collection
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 1