...and study our Karaite manuscripts, like this liturgical codex written in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. It is a composite codex from several parts. One of its sections was written by Abraham Kohen for himself in Jerusalem in 1668 (see the colophon!). digitalcollections.mancheste…

And if you like illustrations, check out the 29 beautiful marriage contracts (ketubot). This 18th-century ketubah from Tarcento, Italy with cut-out design is one of the few remaining examples of this type of decoration. Can you identify the scenes? digitalcollections.mancheste…

You also find illustrated Esther scrolls among the new items. This one, probably from 18th-century Austria (spot the two-headed eagle!) includes not only biblical illustrations but also the 12 zodiac signs and an array of birds and flowers. digitalcollections.mancheste…

We invite you to turn the pages of Jewish prayer books from 13th-century France, 15th-century Yemen, and a Passover Haggadah in a 17th-century North-African codex ... digitalcollections.mancheste… ow.ly/z9j050GRH8f ow.ly/Kn4750GRH8i

New digital collection! 100 more manuscripts from our Hebrew collection now published on Manchester Digital Collections. Codices, scrolls, and colourful marriage contracts... Let researcher @BudaZsofia whet your appetite with a few highlights 👇 @UoMReligion

TODAY 1pm-2pm! Drop into the @TheJohnRylands Historic Reading Room to explore manuscripts, early printed books and objects from @ManMedMuseum all on the subject of urine in medical diagnosis in our #histmed Collection Bite: tinyurl.com/tv2z4mk

Next Thursday @TheJohnRylands! "White as well-water, livid as lead" - discover how the colour, smell and even taste of urine was central to the diagnosis of many diseases from ancient medicine to Victorian laboratories in our #histmed Collection Bite: tinyurl.com/tv2z4mk

Pages and pages of very neat manuscript notes interleaved in an 1837 print book on anatomy by German physician Joseph Meyer, including this carefully labelled diagram of an eye #histmed #ManMedProject

Who Owns Science? Challenging the perspective of Europe as the centre of #histsci @sim_manchester with @AngelaDSaini, @PratikChakrab and @1001inventions this evening (and @library_carlyr!) Food for thought for @ManMedProject

Great to welcome 2nd year students studying #histmed @uochester yesterday for a whistle-stop tour of @TheJohnRylands and a chat about our 19th century medical collections. Lots of enthusiasm for venturing into special collections! 👁️💀

Beautiful hand-drawn plates from Jules Bernard Luys's atlas of the nervous system (1865). Wishing everyone's nervous systems a peaceful Christmas period! 🧠🎄🧠 #histmed #ManMedProject

The consulting hours of Manchester physician Siegmund Moritz stamped in his copy of 'Stammering and Stuttering' (1863). Moritz was born in Berlin and became a medical officer at Manchester Hospital for Consumption, which he played a major role in expanding 👨‍⚕️ #histmed

🎺New blog!🎺Explore the current 'Subvisible Bodies' display @TheJohnRylands, a whistle-stop showcase of medical microscopy in the 19th and early 20th centuries, feat. @ManMedMuseum 🔬🔬#histmed #ManMedProject tinyurl.com/t6nn9ws

Manuscript notes and neurological sketches 🧠 by former @OfficialUoM professor of surgery John Morley (1885-1974), found today in his copy of 'Nervous Diseases' (1906). More on Morley here: tinyurl.com/r7hxvco #histmed