Photo a Day #01
This Freedom of the City of Manchester scroll presented to Mrs Enriqueta Rylands in October 1899. Mrs Rylands built theContinue Reading
Tag: Manuscripts
Inaugural Lecture of the John Rylands Research Institute: Professor Ann Blair
Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, delivered the inaugural John Rylands Research Institute Lecture, Script,Continue Reading
The Papers of Herbert Lomas
Just before Christmas, the Rylands acquired the archive of poet Herbert Lomas (1924-2011), who was born 90 years ago today.Continue Reading
A Miscellany
It can be frustrating to find something described as miscellaneous but sometimes that is just what it is. I’d like toContinue Reading
Ancient Building Plan
This floor plan, made in Sumeria in the Ur III period (circa 2100-2000 BC), is currently on display in theContinue Reading
The “Herstory” of an Arabic Manuscript
This post tells the life story of an Arabic manuscript of folk tales. The manuscript is not particularly old, norContinue Reading
Multispectral Imaging at CHICC
CLICK for an animated gif showing the sequence of the light panels across the spectrum, from UV through visible toContinue Reading
Manchester Contributes to the Friedberg Genizah Project
The John Rylands Library has recently agreed to contribute high quality images and metadata of its Genizah Collection to the Friedberg Genizah ProjectContinue Reading
Digitisation of Ancient Cuneiform Texts
We are excited to announce that the John Rylands Library Cuneiform collection is now available online via the Cuneiform Digital LibraryContinue Reading
Christianus Prolianus’s Astronomia manuscript now digitised
Several of our Latin manuscripts have recently been fully digitised at the request of Professor Kate Cooper, in support ofContinue Reading