Papyrus Rylands 458 Rendel Harris. It was examined by A. Vacari (1936) and A. Pietersma (1985). The text was edited by C. H. Roberts in 1936. The manuscript is currently housed at the John Rylands Library (Gr. P. 458) in Manchester, giving the manuscript its name. Papyrus Rylands 458 Papyrus Rylands 458 is a copy of the Pentateuch in a Greek version of the Hebrew Bible known as the Septuagint. It is a papyrus manuscript in roll form. The manuscript has been assigned palaeographically to the 2nd century BCE, and before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls it was the oldest known
John Rylands Library and the fact that the valuable manuscript collections were to be housed in "that dirty, uncomfortable city ... [with] not enough light to read by, and the books they already have are wretchedly kept" (written in 1901 about the Crawford MSS.) Mrs Rylands negotiated Deeds of Agreement with her neighbours to fix the heights of future adjacent buildings. The permissible height of the building was fixed at just over 34 feet, but it was suggested that it could be taller at the centre if there was an open area around the edges, at the height of buildings that had been