Digitising the Sinhalese Palm Leaf Manuscripts
Rylands, Paramaththa and ICTB UK have digitised thirty-two Sinhalese Manuscripts to open up access to the collection
Tag: Digitisation
A very Rylands Christmas
A little frolic through the John Rylands’ festive collections.
ICP placements with the Imaging team – Part 4 – Reflection
Rylands ICP placement students, Kai and Yunshuang, spent twenty days with the Imaging team between November 2021 and May 2022,Continue Reading
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.
ḤaBaD Hasidic Manuscripts in the Rylands. Part 1: Transmitting Access to the Inner Life
Dr Israel M. Sandman explores some fascinating aspects of the Rylands’ ḤaBaD Hasidic manuscripts collection, all available online now.
If you wanted to know…: number-letter divination in a Jewish miscellany
Learn about a curious prognostic technique called onomancy.
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
Our Rag Rags in Context
Grant Collier reflects on the context of our collection of Rag Rag magazines, now a digital collection