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
Wood is strong and easily shaped, allowing for the creation of practical and beautiful things, for books it creates the quintissential hardback
Leather is durable strong and flexible, also luxurious, tactile to hold
Favoured for its durability and soft, subtle tones, it is in manuscript culture that the use of parchment and vellum endures most significantly
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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.
In collaboration with the Centre for New Writing and the Creative Manchester project, for the last month or so IContinue Reading
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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
A multispectral imaging study has revealed that four Dead Sea Scroll manuscript fragments previously thought to be blank,
contain text.
A curator talks about his favourite collection at the John Rylands Libary.
I became interested in the symbols, the designs chosen, and what that says about the person to whom the seal belong?