The John Rylands Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate and is part of the University of Manchester. It opened to the public in 1900 and was founded by Enriqueta Augustina Rylands in memory of her husband. The library houses a world-class collection including the oldest known piece of the New Testament, the St John Fragment, as well as magnificent illuminated medieval manuscripts and a 1476 William Caxton edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.