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Christmas Greetings
Nativity scene, from an ivory plaque on the Trier bookcovers, 10th century. I hope the delightful image above sets a suitably festive tone to what will probably be our last posting of 2012. Since we...
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Il Libro del Cortegiano in Tudor England
Baldassare Castiglione, Il Libro del Cortegiano. (Venice, 1541). R220959 The John Rylands Library holds an outstanding collection of editions of Il Libro del Cortegiano (The Book of the Courtier) by...
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Portraits of women
Reblogged from Faces&Voices: Last week I had a meeting with Campbell Price and Bryan Sitch at the Manchester Museum to discuss a project for enhancing the use of artefacts in the teaching of Roman...
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The Coptic Manuscripts of Monsieur Dujardin and the Crawford Collection in...
Reblogged from Alin Suciu: Much of the modern circulation of the Coptic manuscript fragments from the library of the Monastery of Apa Shenoute (or, alternatively, the White Monastery) still remains...
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A letter and envelope reunited
We recently made a very small but slightly unusual archival acquisition, in the form of a rather unassuming empty envelope. Addressed ‘To the Author of Mary Barton’, it is signed by T. Carlyle and...
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‘Burning Bright’: William Blake and the Art of the Book
Lavinia Hutanu examining the copy of the Book of Job which she found in the collection. Over the past two years, curators at the John Rylands Library have been working with the art historian Colin...
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Archive Fever! Cataloguing the Freud Family Papers
As part of her Masters in Archives and Records Management course at the University of Liverpool, Louise Piffero has spent the first weeks of 2013 on an internship at The John Rylands Library. During...
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Robert Hooke’s Micrographia Conserved
Robert Hooke’s Micrographia, first published in 1665, is one the landmark works of science. It opened up the new discipline of microscopy, and revealed in remarkable detail the previously hidden world...
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The Tony Dyson Collection
Matthew Schofield, one of our volunteers, reports on his work with the Tony Dyson collection: Working as a volunteer at the Library, I am approaching the end of cataloguing the Tony Dyson Collection....
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Private Books for Educational Use – the Formation of the Northern...
Tuesday 26 February 5.15-6.45pm Demonstration of a new digital resource charting how early nonconformist readers in Lancashire and Yorkshire interacted with their books. Speakers: Dr Ben Bankhurst...
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Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium
The Library was very pleased for the second year to host and provide venue facilities for the annual Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Colloquium. The event was very well attended and...
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Buffalo Bill Scrap Book – A hidden treasure of the John Rylands Library
Buffalo Bill Scrapbook, English MS 1393. Considerable public and scholarly interest has recently been aroused by a scrapbook of memorabilia that documents a fascinating and significant cultural...
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First Meeting of the North West Seminar
Reblogged from North West Early Modern Seminar: Last Friday was the inaugural North West Early Modern Seminar at the John Rylands Library on Deansgate. We had a great turnout and lots of interesting...
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“Sisters in Christ”: A Significant New Resource for Gender Studies at the...
The Wesley Deaconess Order was founded in 1890 in response to the realisation that an Order of dedicated women had a valuable part to play in the life of the Methodist Church. For over one hundred...
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The Thomas Allan Collection – A Major Resource for 19th-Century British Studies
Thomas Allan was a solicitor and political adviser to the Wesleyan Methodists and was considered one of the most influential laymen of his generation. Appointed legal adviser to the Wesleyan Methodist...
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‘Up the S(e)wanee’ or ‘Meet me in St Louis’? A Wesleyan and Newman Studies...
Peter Nockles writes: The Manchester Wesley Research Centre (MWRC) was established in 2002 to promote research on the life and work of John and Charles Wesley, their contemporaries in the 18th-century...
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Charles Wesley in the Spotlight: Publication of the Complete Letters of the...
Gareth Lloyd writes: Portrait engraving of Charles Wesley (Ref: MARC MAW Ms 279). Charles Wesley (1707-88) is regarded by many people as the finest hymn writer in the Christian tradition. Works like...
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Manchester Museum Archive
Dr James Peters writes: Special Collections has recently taken in the first consignment of the archive of Manchester Museum. The archive will be managed as part of the University archives, of which it...
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Digitisation of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s Archive
The Library’s Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care (CHICC) has been awarded the contract to digitise the vast archive of Cardinal John Henry Newman, one of the most important Christian...
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Beyond the Text
Last month I was fortunate enough to travel to New Haven, Connecticut, to give a paper at a symposium marking the fiftieth anniversary of the amazing Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library – home to...
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