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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]
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.
John Rylands (7 February 1801 – 11 December 1888) was an English entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was the owner of the largest textile manufacturing concern in the United Kingdom, and Manchester's first multi-millionaire.
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 Rylands Papyri are a collection of thousands of papyrus fragments and documents from North Africa and Greece housed at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester, UK. The collection includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52 , also known as the "St John's fragment", a fragment from a papyrus codex , generally accepted as the earliest ...
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 library was sold by the 26th Earl of Crawford to Enriqueta Rylands in 1901, and there are other manuscripts from the Earl's collection at John Rylands also called Crawford manuscripts, including the "Crawford Codex" a Latin translation of the Almagest from Arabic by Gerhard of Cremona. [3]
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.