Incunabula Cataloguing Project
3: Sweynheym and Pannartz, the first printers in Italy
Tag: Printed books
Incunabula Cataloguing Project
2: The first printed edition of the Roman poet Virgil
Incunabula Cataloguing Project
1: The first post on the Incunabula Cataloguing Project, discussing the cataloguing of our world-class collection of 15th-century printed books.
The National Book League and the house that became “the centre of the world of books”.
A short story about a house, a series of books, a fabulously named organization and a serendipitous find in the stacks.
Hidden Stories: Behind The Night Brother for Museums at Night 2019
Rosie Garland writes: For Museums at Night 2019 at The John Rylands Library, I was invited to work with JessContinue Reading
The Writings of Vavasor Powell in the John Rylands Collection: A Jewish-Christian Encounter
Lawrence Rabone, PhD student studying seventeenth-century Jewish-Christian relations, shares some of his early findings from his research as John RylandsContinue Reading
Undiscovered collections: Guardian Archive Printed Collection
A team from Collection Management has recently completed restoring and cataloguing The Guardian Archive Printed Collection. The majority of the collection, whichContinue Reading
The Race for Westminster
Political cartoons are a regular feature in modern-day newspapers and periodicals. Cartoons have long been used to capture, and provideContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – March 2015
The next seminar session is on Thursday 12th March, 5.00-7.00 pm. Our speakers are: Dr Georg Christ, Manchester, Marino Sanuto’sContinue Reading
The John Rylands Seminar on Print and Materiality in the Early Modern World – February 2015
The next seminar session is on Thursday 12th February, 5.00–7.00 pm. Our speakers are: Dr Sara Barker, Leeds, ‘Translation andContinue Reading