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3 Feb 2025
The Rylands are HIRING a new HEAD OF COLLECTIONS! jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/Jo…
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In her latest blog post, curator Zsófi Buda explores the Samaritan manuscript collection at the Rylands close up, uncovering hidden messages, unique calendars, and the Samaritans’ ability to switch languages and scripts. ✍️🔍
Read it here: ow.ly/uN5250UyGgF
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12 Jan 2025
The second part of my blog on the @TheJohnRylands' Samaritan manuscript collection is out: rylandscollections.com/2025/…
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The Rylands houses a remarkable collection of Samaritan manuscripts, many of which are now available online. 🖥️✨
Curator Zsofi Buda’s new blog post introduces the Samaritans and the origins of the collection. Read it here: ow.ly/ZP0w50UyFO3
ALT Handwritten letter from Abisha the High Priest to Moses Gaster, dated Shechem, 1926.
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19 Nov 2024
Our festive Solstice and Equinox series event with Jeanette Winterson CBE returns for 2024.
Join @wintersonwords on 5 Dec at @TheJohnRylands , where she will read and talk about her work.
The event is free, with donations to @manchesteryz
Book: ow.ly/GsW150U9XsP
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The Rylands acquired most of its Pali manuscripts in 1915 from Professor Thomas William Rhys Davids (1843-1922), scholar of Buddhist literature, and the founder of the Pali Text Society. For more on the provenance of the collection, see rylandscollections.com/2024/…
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30 Sep 2024
Thirty Samaritan manuscripts from
@TheJohnRylands collection have been published: digitalcollections.mancheste… The online records are based on Robertson's Catalogue of the Samaritan Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library Manchester (vols. 1-2). #Samaritanmanuscripts
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20 Sep 2024
Read my new blog and learn about the only Shan manuscript in @TheJohnRylands' collection: rylandscollections.com/2024/…
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Our conservators have been experimenting with toning Japanese papers using acrylic paints. The toned paper will help reattach loose fragments that we removed from the damaged #rylandsmegillah at the start. A good colour match ensures that the repairs are discrete!
ALT The materials and media used to tone Japanese repair paper.
ALT A small sample of toned Japanese paper being compared to the original silk colour
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16 May 2024
My second blog about @TheJohnRylands' Mexican manuscripts: rylandscollections.com/2024/…
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The collections at The John Rylands Library never fail to surprise even the most curious curator, with many rare items awaiting rediscovery. Explore the journey of a unique Nahuatl codex that has made its way from the Valley of Mexico to the Rylands: ow.ly/qg3Y50RFuSj
ALT A page of manuscript written in Nahuatl.
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Our conservators have been testing adhesives on a range of materials to devise a plan for treating loose fragments of ribbon on the #rylandsmegillah. Individual threads cast in adhesive will hold pieces in place to prevent loss in the future. @SeeTheTreasures #TextileConservation
ALT An individual polyester thread is tested for strength and appearance under the microscope against a fragment of ribbon
ALT Samples showing what the Conservators have tested: a range of adhesives and techniques on different materials to determine their suitability in the treatment of the Rylands Megillah
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2 May 2024
Upcoming event @TheJohnRylands on Mexican manuscripts! For details and to register, click here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/decoding-…
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Parchment repair was an important way to secure the sustainability of medieval book production. This 14th-century German Psalter exemplifies how to turn imperfection into embellishment: just look at the stitched wing of this dragon!
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#GreenRylands
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Protecting nature is in our own interest: we are part of it. Thomas Henry Huxley's Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863) was the first book discussing human evolution. Its frontispiece compares the human skeleton to other primates. #GreenRylands
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ALT Skeletons of the Gibbon, Orangutang, Chimpanzee, Gorilla, and Man. Photographically reduced from diagrams of the natural size.
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22 Apr 2024
Photos taken on Mt Gerizim during the Samaritan Passover of 1907. They were probably taken by American theologian David Gordon Lyon, who then sent them to Moses Gaster. Browse the entire scrapbook: luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/s… Hag Pesah sameah #Passover2024 🐑🫓 🥬@TheJohnRylands
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Today is Earth Day and the message is not underestimating your power as individuals to be a part of the transformational change needed to reverse the environmental crisis the Earth is facing! #GreenRylands 💚 🌎🌿🌏🌳🌍🦜💚 Image : Darwin's Journal H.M.S Beagle
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Medieval manuscripts can teach us a lot about recycling. Paper and parchment were precious materials and often got reused. Look at this early medieval century codex with a leaf from a musical manuscript in its binding.
Latin MS 104 luna.manchester.ac.uk/luna/s… #GreenRylands
ALT Latin MS 104, paste down.
ALT Latin MS 104, waste in binding. Stained and overlaid covering, with large stitches and book plates.
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