Our Rag Rags in Context
Grant Collier reflects on the context of our collection of Rag Rag magazines, now a digital collection
Tag: Digitisation
Digital Collections Internship – Part 4 – The Evaluation
In Part 4 of our Digital Collections Internship series, the Imaging team reflect on the impact of the programme.
Digital Collections Internship – part 3 -SPOTLIGHT on Ishmael Armstrong
In Part 3 of our Digital Collections Internship series, Ishmael Armstrong shares his photographic response to images from the Rylands Digital Collections.
Speaking to angels: Charaktêres in Jewish magical manuscripts – Part II
In the first part of this blog, I introduced the magical signs called charaktêres that you can encounter in Jewish magical manuscripts. OriginallyContinue Reading
Speaking to angels: Charaktêres in Jewish magical manuscripts – Part I
“[To gain] favour and grace, write on your right hand these seals [ḥotamot], then wipe them with olive oil, andContinue Reading
Digital Collections Internship – part 2 – SPOTLIGHT on Hana Sharkey
Hana Sharkey is a BA (Hons) Photography final year student at the University of Salford. In the summer of 2021,Continue Reading
Digital Collections Internship – Part 1
In the summer of 2021 the Rylands Imaging team hosted the first Rylands Digital Collections Internship. The programme was aContinue Reading
From Calcutta to Tarcento: Jewish marriage contracts from the collections
Jewish women, in Israel and throughout the Diaspora, have always treasured an important document: their ketubah.
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.
Qing China: new exhibition and digital collection go live
Through books, scrolls and artworks from our Chinese collections, we explore the languages and cultures of the Qing empire.