Imaging takes an Isolated View (Part 4): ‘Visually Manipulating Rylands Treasures’
During my 13 or so years at the Rylands, I’ve had the chance to see truly mind blowing things across our entire collections.
Tag: Latin manuscripts
Cataloguing Manuscripts: A Historian’s Reflections
Dr Joanne Edge writes: I am just coming to the end of a 17-month stint setting up an online catalogueContinue Reading
Creating a Digital Catalogue of the Latin Manuscripts at the John Rylands Library
Dr Jo Edge writes: I’ve been employed at the John Rylands Library since August 2018, tasked with creating digital catalogueContinue Reading
A Twelfth-Century Binding Fragment in Ottonian Gospel Book, Latin Ms. 98
Emerson Richards, a PhD student at Indiana University, recently spent several months at the Library as John Rylands Research Institute – LillyContinue Reading
Art and Exegesis: Nicholas of Lyra’s Bible Commentary
Dr Sarah Bromberg from Suffolk University, Boston, has spent the last month in Manchester as the Newberry Library – John RylandsContinue Reading
Cleansing the Home of Evil Spirits: Sweeping Magic in the Concordantiae Caritatis (Latin MS 69)
Stephen Gordon writes: ‘The style of these drawings is beneath contempt’: these are the words of the famed medievalist andContinue 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
More Manuscript Catalogues Online!
Last week John posted a list of “legacy” manuscript catalogues now available via Manchester eScholar. It reminded me that many cataloguesContinue Reading
Manuscript Catalogues Go Online
We have recently digitised many of the ‘legacy’ catalogues of our manuscript collections, and these are now available as searchableContinue Reading