More than words: Medieval Storytelling
Western Manuscripts Curator, Anne Anderton, explores the artistry of medieval manuscripts.
Category: Short read
New Digital Collection: 19th-Century Photo Jewellery
The Photo Jewellery collection held at The John Rylands Library is an interesting, thought provoking insight into culture and identity. We are pleased to announce the collection can now be viewed on Manchester Digital Collections.
Introduction to Collection Care
The Collection Care team has specialist knowledge encompassing: books, paper, pith, parchment, leather, papyrus, photographic, and visual collections
Materials of the Book – Paper
Paper has had many uses… crucially it is the perfect material for writing, printing and making books
Materials of the Book – Papyrus
The famous writing material of Ancient Egypt, enduring and iconic
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
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