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The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England.It is part of the University of Manchester. [4] The library, which opened to the public in 1900, was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband, John Rylands. [5]
[28] p. Manchester: John Rylands University Library of Manchester (compiled after the opening of the 1981 extension to the Main Library) Tyson, Moses (1937) The Manchester University Library. Manchester: U. P. (published on the occasion of the opening of the Arts Library, which was in use from 1936: architects Thomas Worthington & Sons)
The first day of opening was 1 January 1900. A posthumous grant of arms to John Rylands was obtained in 1893 in which the arms of Tennant are impaled with those of Rylands. [14] Tomb of John Rylands and his third wife at Southern Cemetery, Manchester. Rylands died at his home, Longford Hall, on 11 December 1888, at the age of 87.
Shopping, Kendals, the Great Northern Warehouse, the John Rylands Library, Beetham Tower, Manchester Cathedral Deansgate is a main road (part of the A56 ) through Manchester City Centre , England. It runs roughly north–south in a near straight route through the western part of the city centre and is the longest road in the city centre at over ...
Pages in category "John Rylands Research Institute and Library" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St John's fragment and with an accession reference of Papyrus Rylands Greek 457, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3.5 by 2.5 inches (8.9 cm × 6.4 cm) at its widest (about the size of a credit card), and conserved with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library Manchester, UK.
The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is a journal published by Manchester University Press. Articles are meant to enhance the "scholarship and understanding" of the collections of the John Rylands Library. [1] The journal was established in 1903, and has been published by MUP since 2014.
The John Rylands Library reading room. In memory of her husband, Enriqueta founded the John Rylands Library.She admired the design of Basil Champneys's library for Mansfield College, Oxford, and contracted him to develop something similar, on a more lavish scale.