Materials of the Book – Wood
Wood is strong and easily shaped, allowing for the creation of practical and beautiful things, for books it creates the quintissential hardback
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Materials of the Book – Leather
Leather is durable strong and flexible, also luxurious, tactile to hold
Materials of the Book – Parchment
Favoured for its durability and soft, subtle tones, it is in manuscript culture that the use of parchment and vellum endures most significantly
Album of Women’s Work in Wartime. (1914-1919)
Is it Safe? Stay Alert!
Messages we can relate to today. Many women during WW1 were Key Workers, hard at work in urban and rural settings keeping the infrastructure going and enhancing societal living conditions.
The Rylands Brief, a new podcast series
In collaboration with the Centre for New Writing and the Creative Manchester project, for the last month or so IContinue Reading
White as Well-Water, Livid as Lead: Understanding Urine Collection Bite
Though many of us may feel a bit reticent about closely examining the subtleties of our own urine, we areContinue Reading
“Through a glass darkly”: A digital exploration of an 18th century Revival Network”
Invitation to a webinar hosted by Southern Methodist University and featuring a presentation by Dr Gareth Lloyd of The John Rylands Library, University of Manchester
Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text
A multispectral imaging study has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments previously thought to be blank,
contain text.
A curator’s pick: My favourite Rylands collection
A curator talks about his favourite collection at the John Rylands Libary.
Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 5): Sigillography, a study of wax seals
I became interested in the symbols, the designs chosen, and what that says about the person to whom the seal belong?