Our Rag Rags in Context
Grant Collier reflects on the context of our collection of Rag Rag magazines, now a digital collection
Grant Collier reflects on the context of our collection of Rag Rag magazines, now a digital collection
In Part 4 of our Digital Collections Internship series, the Imaging team reflect on the impact of the programme.
In Part 3 of our Digital Collections Internship series, Ishmael Armstrong shares his photographic response to images from the Rylands Digital Collections.
In the first part of this blog, I introduced the magical signs called charaktêres that you can encounter in Jewish magical manuscripts. OriginallyContinue Reading
“[To gain] favour and grace, write on your right hand these seals [ḥotamot], then wipe them with olive oil, andContinue Reading
Hana Sharkey is a BA (Hons) Photography final year student at the University of Salford. In the summer of 2021,Continue Reading
In the summer of 2021 the Rylands Imaging team hosted the first Rylands Digital Collections Internship. The programme was aContinue Reading
Jewish women, in Israel and throughout the Diaspora, have always treasured an important document: their ketubah.
A hundred more manuscripts from the John Rylands Library’s Hebrew Collection have just been published on the Manchester Digital Collections website.
Through books, scrolls and artworks from our Chinese collections, we explore the languages and cultures of the Qing empire.