Short answers, pulled from the story.
The Rylands Papyri are thousands of papyrus fragments and documents from North Africa and Greece held at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester, UK. The collection spans religious, devotional, literary, and administrative texts ranging from the 14th century BCE to the early centuries CE.
Rylands Library Papyrus P52, also called the St John's fragment, is generally accepted as the earliest surviving record of a canonical gospel. It is a fragment from a papyrus codex of the Gospel of John.
The earliest surviving fragment of the Septuagint is the Rylands Papyrus iii.458, also catalogued as Papyrus 957, which contains a portion of Deuteronomy and is held in the Rylands Papyri collection.
The Petition of Petiese, catalogued as pRylands 9, is a demotic papyrus from the reign of Darius I of Persia. It is one of the collection's 166 demotic papyri, most of which date from the Ptolemaic period.
John Rylands Papyrus 470 is the earliest known copy of a prayer to the Theotokos, written in Koine Greek in brown ink and dated to somewhere between the 3rd and 9th centuries. The library acquired it in 1917.
Yes. The collection includes Papyrus Rylands 463, a Greek copy of the apocryphal Gospel of Mary, a text that circulated outside the official biblical canon.