* Rylands Papyri

The library houses papyrus fragments known as the Rylands Papyri and documents from North Africa.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also known as the St. John's fragment, is a fragment from a papyrus codex, measuring only 3. 5 by 2. 5 inches ( 8. 9 by 6 cm ) at its widest ; and conserved with the Rylands Papyri at the John Rylands University Library ( Gr. P. 457 ), Manchester, UK.

Towards the end of the series, Marker works briefly for another enquiry agent, Rylands — in The Comedian's Graveyard he is hired to trace a young girl who has run away from her home and is now appearing in a run-down end-of-pier theatre act.

John Rylands ' widow, Enriqueta Rylands, had admired the library Champneys had designed for Mansfield College, Oxford and hired him to develop the design on a more lavish scale — The John Rylands Memorial Library in Deansgate, Manchester took nine years to build before opening on January 1, 1900, it is one of Champneys ' finest designs.

The most nearly complete collection of Aldine editions ever brought together was in the Althorp library of the 2nd Earl Spencer, now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

* Rylands Aldine collection

Philip Rylands was appointed director of the collection in 2000.

Firth's letters to Tout are in the latter's collection in the John Rylands Library, Manchester University.

Most of the Freeman collection is at the John Rylands University Library, Oxford Road.

The core of the library's collection was formed around 40, 000 books, including many rarities, assembled by George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, which Mrs Rylands purchased from Lord Spencer in 1892.

Mrs Rylands paid £ 210, 000 for Spencer's collection which included the Aldine Collection and an incunabula collection of 3, 000 items.

# Hymns of the Church Universal, with Prefaces, Annotations, and Indexes, Manchester, 1885, pp. 604, royal 8vo ; a selection from a collection made by Rylands of sixty thousand hymns.

Also, the John Rylands University Library in Manchester holds a collection of over 11, 000 fragments, which are currently being digitised and uploaded to an online archive.

His collection of some 40, 000 volumes was put up for sale in 1892 and acquired by Mrs Rylands for the John Rylands Library.

Nicholson's personal collection of published poetry was acquired by the John Rylands University Library, Manchester from his family.

* H3: The Fry collection: papers relating to B. W. Newton, S. P. Tregelles, F. W. Wyatt, A. C. Fry, and others, at the Christian Brethren Archive of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

His collection of books and mineralogical specimens were bought by Owens College, Manchester: the books have remained in the library ( now the John Rylands University Library ) and the specimens in the Manchester Museum.

* The John Rylands University Library ( JRUL ), University of Manchester, contains 600 items in The Sharpe Collection of Chapbooks, formed by Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe.

Most of the above is called into question by Rylands Library Papyrus P52 which contains a fragment from John chapter 18 dated with a fair measure of confidence to the first half of the 2nd century.

When the library opened, the main reading room on the first floor, 30 feet above the ground and 12 feet from all four boundaries, was noted for the pleasant contrast between the ' sullen roar ' of Manchester and the ' internal cloister quietude of Rylands '.

When the family moved from the house in 1946, the missal went with them, and was held for safe-keeping in the John Rylands Library in Manchester.

* Henry VI, Part 1 – 1961 professionally performed audio production with a full cast, by the Marlowe Society under the direction of George Rylands.

) Mrs Rylands negotiated Deeds of Agreement with her neighbours to fix the heights of future adjacent buildings.

Librarians at John Rylands before its merger include Edward Gordon Duff in 1899 and 1900 and Henry Guppy between 1899 and 1948 ( joint Librarian with Duff until 1900 ).

* Guppy, Henry ( 1924 ) The John Rylands Library ( 1899 – 1924 ): a record of its history with brief descriptions of the building and its contents.

* Guppy, Henry ( 1935 ) The John Rylands Library ( 1899 – 1935 ): a brief record of its history with descriptions of the building and its contents.

So successful were they that, in 1819, Rylands ' father merged his retail business with theirs, creating the firm of Rylands & Sons.

Rylands was a Congregationalist, with leanings to the Baptist form of faith.

A posthumous grant of arms to John Rylands was obtained in 1893 in which the arms of Tennant are impaled with those of Rylands.

The John Rylands Library continues to maintain Roberts's assessment of the date of < sup > 52 </ sup >, that it " may with some confidence be dated in the first half of the second century A. D .", and the date is given as c. 125 in standard reference works.

Old master prints, nearly all on religious subjects, served many of the same functions as holy cards, especially the cheaper woodcuts ; the earliest dated surviving example is from 1423, probably from southern Germany, and depicts Saint Christopher, with handcolouring, it is found as part of the binding of a manuscript of the Laus Virginis ( 1417 ) which belongs to the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

Jones's admiration for George Rylands undermined the marriage by 1927 ; after affairs with Dora Carrington and Shelagh Clutton-Brock, in 1932 Lucas married the young Girton graduate and artist Prudence Wilkinson ( 1911-1944 ).

A 1946 production on Broadway did not fare as well ; Rylands attempted to duplicate his London staging with John Carradine as Ferdinand and Elisabeth Bergner as the Duchess.

The partnership with Rylands soon splits up as Marker finds his working methods intolerable and makes it clear he thinks Rylands is less than honest with his clients.

Vernon Rylands Parton ( 2 October 1897 – 31 December 1974 ) was an English chess enthusiast and prolific chess variant inventor, his most renowned variant being Alice Chess.

Enriqueta Augustina Rylands ( 31 May 1843 – 4 February 1908 ) was the founder of the John Rylands Library, Manchester.

This group includes the Rylands Library Papyrus P52, containing part of St John's Gospel, and perhaps dating from between 125 and 160.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52, which records a fragment of this gospel, is usually dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

The Rylands Library Papyrus P52 | Rylands Papyrus is perhaps the earliest New Testament fragment ; dated from its handwriting to about 125.

She writes that only three fragmentary manuscripts are known to have survived into the modern period, two 3rd-century fragments ( P. Rylands 463 and P. Oxyrhynchus 3525 ) published in 1938 and 1983, and a longer 5th-century Coptic translation ( Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1 ) published in 1955.

Some of these fragments have even been thought to date as early as the 2nd century ( i. e., Papyrus 90, Papyrus 98, Papyrus 104, and famously Rylands Library Papyrus P52, though the early date of the latter has recently been called into question ).

It is housed at the John Rylands University Library.

A subset of nuisance is known as the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher, where a dam burst into a coal mine shaft.

UMIST students were entitled to use the facilities of the Victoria University, including the John Rylands University Library at the Oxford Road site and sports facilities and social clubs organised by the students ' unions.

The damaged papers are now in the John Rylands Library having been deposited in the university library by the Society.

* A. R. Myers, " The Household of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, 1466-7 ," Bulletin of the John Rylands Library ( 1967 – 68 ).

* G. F. Bartle, Sir John Bowring and the Arrow war in China, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, Manchester, 43: 2 ( 1961 ), 293 – 316

There are two main areas of the town ; north of the railway line ( the Midland Main Line ) lies the main part, including the main shopping district, whilst south of the line lies the mixed housing and industrial area of Beeston Rylands.

Rylands was historically more at risk of flooding from the River Trent to the south, and this has meant that property here was less desirable, and led to more modestly sized houses being constructed, originally mostly for rental.

The construction of strengthened flood protection has reduced the flooding threat to Beeston Rylands to a one every fifty year possibility.

The town is subdivided into four wards for local government / electoral purposes within Broxtowe: Beeston North, Beeston Central, Beeston Rylands, and Beeston West.

The Rylands ward is considerably larger by area than the other three wards of Beeston, as it includes unpopulated floodplain of the River Trent and industrial areas, including the part of the Boots Estate that falls within Broxtowe ; the Rylands ward also extends north of the railway line in the west, up to Queen's Road and includes the former site of Nottingham Rugby Club.