Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. Like almost anybody with a library named after them, John Rylands was a very ...
Digital agency Reading Room has been appointed to redesign the John Rylands University Library website. Housing more than four million books and manuscripts, The Manchester library is one of the ...
The University of Manchester thought the ancient fragments were worthless. Now they have the only Dead Sea Scroll text in a UK institution. Joan Taylor examining the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments in the ...
John Rylands was an entrepreneur and philanthropist who owned a large textile enterprise. After learning to weave he became a small-scale manufacturer of hand-looms, while also working in the draper's ...
The John Rylands Library was founded by Enriqueta Rylands in memory of her husband John Rylands. The building opened to the public in 1900. The Library became part of The University of Manchester in ...
A fragment of scroll from the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, under microspectral imagery. The University of Manchester, Author provided (no reuse) We really didn’t mean to find any ...
Sixth issue and the tenth volume of the series of descriptive catalogues or guides to the collection of oriental and western manuscripts in the John Rylands Library.
Items from The John Rylands Library’s Arabic manuscripts collection are available online for the first time via our Manchester Digital Collections (MDC) platform. Explore fully digitised copies of ...
Reprinted, with additions from: The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, v. 9, no. 2, July, 1925. Contains the translation of a Syriac document attributed to Philoxenus, bishop of Mabbūg, and the ...
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