New Digital Resource on French Revolutionary and Napoleonic France
Former John Rylands Research Institute Fellow, Dr Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley, reports on the recent digitisation of over 200 proclamations and broadsidesContinue Reading
Tag: Digitisation
Transcription of Brut Chronicle Added to LUNA
Rylands English MS 103 has received a full transcription on Luna. The Brut Chronicle (a History of England), was oneContinue Reading
John Nelson Darby’s scrapbook now available online
A scrapbook containing personal memorabilia relating to the life and travels of the Christian evangelist John Nelson Darby (1800-82) has beenContinue Reading
Photo a Day #03
We’re using this ‘grim’ image from our collections to celebrate ‘Grimm Fest 2014‘ International Festival of Horror and Cult Films,Continue Reading
A Rare Outing for Pierre Desceliers’s 1546 World Map
One of the Library’s great treasures is a remarkable manuscript map of the world, or Mappe Monde, produced in 1546Continue Reading
Sketches by Wenceslaus Hollar
We are pleased to make available in its entirety, Rylands English MS 883, a book of drawings by the esteemed artistContinue Reading
Celebrating a Neo-Gothic Masterpiece
The John Rylands Library has been described as one of the finest examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in Europe. Built asContinue Reading
A diabolical pact, Dracula and other devils
This month we are delighted to focus on all that is spooky, macabre and gothic in the John Rylands LibraryContinue Reading
Medieval Chronicle Roll Fully Digitised
Colleagues in the Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) have digitised Latin MS 113, a late 15th-centuryContinue Reading