John Rylands library to open a new chapter

Charles Davis writes “The task of packing away one of the world’s most
important collections of rare manuscripts and books is about to start, as the John Rylands Library, in Manchester embarks upon a £15 million restoration.
Scores of librarians and specialist removal teams are expected to take three months to remove more than a million exhibits, including the St John Fragment, the oldest surviving piece of the New Testament.
The collections will be rehoused until the library, which was built in the 1890s as a memorial to John Rylands, the most prominent of Manchester’s cotton merchants, is reopened in 2005.

More at
The telegraph.co.uk “

June 24, 2003 by Uncategorized 0

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