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Imaging Heritage Science Initiatives at the John Rylands Research
Institute and Library Stefan Hanß and James Robinson
Fraught with Possibilities of World-Wide Benefit: Towards a History of
Photography at the John Rylands Library Elizabeth Gow, John Hodgson, Tony
Richards and James Robinson
Imaging Heritage Featherwork: A New Methodology for the Study of Feather
Artefacts Stefan Hanß, James Robinson and Tony Richards
Sri Guru Granth Sahib: Collaboration, Digitisation, Heritage and the Legacy
of Colonial Collections Gurtek Singh and James Robinson
Imaging the Gaster Jewish Amulets in the John Rylands Research Institute and
Library, Manchester Philip Alexander, James Robinson, Elizabeth Evans, Amin
Garbout, Jo Castle, Tony Richards and Ira Rabin
The Apocalypse and Biblia Pauperum Blockbooks Bound by Johannes Richenbach in
1467 Stephen Mossman and Edward Potten
The Trier Psalter-Hymnal (Manchester, John Rylands University Library, MS
Lat. 116): Palette and Pigments Richard Gameson and Andrew Beeby -- .
Stefan Hanß is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester
James Robinson is Imaging Manager at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester -- .
