The John Rylands Library, Manchester: A Brief Record of Twenty-one Years' Work (MCM January MCMXII).The University Press, 1921 - 58 pages |
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Page 33 - THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY : A brief description of the building and its contents, with a descriptive list of the works exhibited in the main library. Printed for private circulation. July 1902.
Page 33 - Catalogue of an Exhibition of original editions of the principal works of John Milton arranged in celebration of the tercentenary of his birth. 1908.
Page 24 - MSS. of great theological and historical interest. CATALOGUE OF THE DEMOTIC PAPYRI IN THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. With facsimiles and complete translations. By F. LI. Griffith (1909). 3 vols. 4to.
Page 33 - THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. . . . Catalogue of an Exhibition of Bibles illustrating the history of the English versions from Wiclif to the present time. Including the personal copies of Queen Elizabeth, General Gordon, and Elizabeth Fry. 1904. 8vo, pp. 32. [Out of Print. THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY.
Page 26 - With an introduction by Percy E. Newbery ; and remarks on the vocabulary and dialect, with a glossary by Henry C. Wyld. 1910. 4to, pp. xxxviii, 16.
Page 33 - THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY. . . . Catalogue of the selection of books and broadsides illustrating the early history of printing exhibited on the occasion of the visit of the Federation of Master Printers and allied trades.
Page 32 - Vol. I. Literary Texts (Nos. 1-61). 1911. 4to, pp. xii. 204. 10 plates of facsimiles in collotype.
Page 33 - AND PRINTED COPIES OF THE SCRIPTURES, illustrating the history of the transmission of the Bible, shown in the John Rylands Library from March to December, MCMXI, in commemoration of the tercentenary of the " Authorised version" of the English Bible : AD 1611-1911.
Page ix - Biblia Pauperum " or " Bible for the Poor " consists of a series of pictures, printed from wood-blocks during the second quarter of the fifteenth century, probably in Germany. The scheme of the work is to represent by means of pictures, each of which is divided into three compartments, a scene from the life of Christ in the centre, with prefigurations, or types, from the Old Testament on either side, accompanied by rhyming verses and texts, with the object of familiarizing the illiterate with the...