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.
Category: Research
ḤaBaD Hasidic Manuscripts in the Rylands. Part 2: Authoritativeness and Precision in Transmission
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.
Liberal England and the Irish Civil War
After the Irish home rule debates in the 1880s the Manchester Guardian and its editor, C. P. Scott, emerged asContinue Reading
Images of Martyrdom in an Early Modern Pilgrim’s Narrative
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr Emily Price, examines William Lithgow’s account of torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
The human body and how to use it: a Jewish copy of a Christian medical work
A hundred more manuscripts from the John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Collection have just been published on the Manchester Digital Collections website.
Exploring the Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism at The University of Manchester
Dr Kerry Pimblott and Mary Booth discuss the recently developed module ‘Race, Migration & Humanitarianism: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in the Modern World’ for MA History students at The University of Manchester.
Cataloguing Persian Manuscripts at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Jake Benson, Research Associate discusses his work of cataloguing the roughly 1,000 Persian manuscripts that are held in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library’s collections.
Unexpected treasures from early medieval Spain: the Visigothic manuscripts in the Rylands
Visiting Early Career research Fellow, Dr Ana Dias, explores the Rylands Visigothic Manuscripts.
Richard Goulden Collection: a new and exciting archive in Special Collections
Catherine Smith, Reader Services Assistant, writes: As well as looking after our readers in the Reading Rooms either in personContinue Reading
Four Maps of New Zealand: The General Survey Office and imperial tourism
Visiting Early Career Research Fellow, Dr James Watts, explores the map collection of the Manchester Geographical Society (MGS).