The Oriental Manuscript Collections in the John Rylands Library

@article{Taylor1972TheOM,
  title={The Oriental Manuscript Collections in the John Rylands Library},
  author={Frank Taylor},
  journal={Bulletin of the John Rylands Library},
  year={1972},
  volume={54},
  pages={449-478}
}
  • F. Taylor
  • Published 31 March 1972
  • History
  • Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
View via Publisher
4 Citations

4 Citations

‘Spoils of Many a Distant Land’: The Earls of Crawford and the Collecting of Oriental Manuscripts in the Nineteenth Century

ABSTRACT The collecting and cultural signification of oriental manuscripts in nineteenth-century Britain are a hitherto under-researched field that is ripe for re-evaluation in the light of…

Henry D. Ginsburg and the Thai Manuscripts Collection at the British Library and Beyond

An overview of Thai manuscript collections in the UK is given, and major contributors and builders of these collections are given.

Cuneiform inscriptions in the collections of the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester

The collection of the cuneiform documents in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, was mainly acquired between 1903 and 1923 by Professors H. W. Hogg and Canon C. H. W. Johns; these…

Enriqueta Augustina Rylands (1843-1908), founder of the John Rylands Library

Books have their own destiny, and the peculiar destiny of most seems to be decay and destruction. Armour against such a fate has been forged by the forethought of a few rare individuals, including a…