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Book SynopsisThe John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library’s special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.
Table of ContentsSinful, Sexual, Sacred: Locating a Thirteenth-Century Visuality through the Selective Erasures in Rylands MS French 5 – Molly Lewis
Abbess, Judge, Jailor: Authority and Imprisonment at Holy Trinity, Caen – Laura L. Gathagan
Lorenzo Opimo of Bologna, Teaching Doctor of the Servites during the Reformation, and His Sentences Lectures at the University of Paris in 1370–71 (Part II) – Chris Schabel
Machiavelli and the Florentine Book Trade – Alexander Lee
French and English Texts of the Laws of Oléron: Assessing Proximity between Copies and Editions by Means of Cosine Similarity – Kinga Lis and Jerzy Wójcik
