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: Manuscripts
A very Rylands Christmas
A little frolic through the John Rylands’ festive collections.
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.
If you wanted to know…: number-letter divination in a Jewish miscellany
Learn about a curious prognostic technique called onomancy.
#Archive30
For the month of April we are joining in #Archive30.
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.
Cataloguing Persian Manuscripts at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Jake Benson, Research Associate discusses his work of cataloguing the roughly 1,000 Persian manuscripts that are held in the John Rylands Research Institute and Library’s collections.
Unexpected treasures from early medieval Spain: the Visigothic manuscripts in the Rylands
Visiting Early Career research Fellow, Dr Ana Dias, explores the Rylands Visigothic Manuscripts.
Autographs and Amanuenses in the Mary Hamilton Papers
How can we uncover the voices of the past? Christine Wallis delves into the world of 18th-century letters and their writers.
Finding faith in the urban archive
Did urbanisation and industrialisation cause religious faith to decline in eighteenth-century England? Correspondence from the Nicholson family of Manchester merchants suggests otherwise.