Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month

A particularly interesting fragment from the last month, unearthed by the research team or one of our Genizah colleagues worldwide:

• [2023 Dec] An Aramaic Antiochus Chanukah poem: T-S A45.14
• [2023 Oct] The Long Road to Samarqand: Reverse-Engineering the Travels of a 12th-Century Andalusi Muslim (T-S Ar.53.39)
• [2023 Sep] Greco-Coptic exercises in Hebrew script: T-S Ar.35.109
• [2023 Aug] A lost work or a lost title? Iqāma al-ʿIbbur: T-S 10G5.7
• [2023 Jul] A Tale of Two Cities: From Singora to Shingly
• [2023 Jun] The oldest Hebrew manuscript dated by its colophon: a leaf of a Mishna manuscript with Babylonian vocalization in Toronto
• [2023 May] A Maldivian boat and cowrie shells in a letter from Nahray b. ʿAllān to his son
• [2023 Apr] New Pages of Sefer Tagin: JTS ENA 2753.16 and National Library of Russia (NLR) Box N.91
• [2023 Mar] The Book of Joshua in a Christian Palestinian Aramaic Palimpsest Fragment (T-S 12.758)
• [2023 Feb] Andalusi masters of Hebrew language, scholars who avoid buying expensive books and gossipy travelling cousins: on the manuscript transmission of the book of Ḥayyūj (T-S K7.56)
• [2023 Jan] Solving European Writer’s Block in Jewish Cairo (T-S 20.188)
• [2022 Nov] “At Least Like a Dog Treat me”, Says Not the Sufi: The Use of Animals in Poetry as Didactic Tools, T-S Ar.40.204
• [2022 Oct] Genizah Fragments of Saadiah’s tafsīr by Samuel ben Jacob: T-S AS 72.79 and T-S Ar.1a.38 Revisited
• [2022 Sep] A Story of Scribal Collaboration: the Targum of T-S 6H5.1
• [2022 Aug] The Greek background of the grammatical fragments attributed to Ḥunayn b. Isḥāq (ENA 3173.1, T-S Ar.31.30, Rylands B 3652-3653, AIU IX.A.6)
• [2022 Jul] T-S Misc.22.264 - a trope trainer from the Cairo Genizah
• [2022 Jun] Moses b. Abraham the Nagid – New evidence: T-S AS 147.93
• [2022 May] Saadya Gaon’s Refutation of Anan or a Qaraite Book of Commandments? T-S Ar.21.156, T-S Ar.48.216 and T-S NS 303.1
• [2022 Apr] An eighth-century Easter cycle in Hebrew (T-S NS 98.51)
• [2022 Mar] Ripe apples with bread? T-S Ar.43.225
• [2022 Feb] A New Judaeo-Syriac Fragment from the Genizah: ENA 3846.2
• [2022 Jan] A Tale of a Torn Title Page: T-S AS 191.716
• [2021 Dec] Relaxing the Tiberian Standard: T-S A11.1
• [2021 Nov] Kalah in the lands of Java: T-S Ar.30.42
• [2021 Oct] Nāṣir, the Hebrew Littérateur
• [2021 Sep] The Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts of the ‘Arabian Nights’ found in the Cairo Genizot: T-S NS 183.18+23+35+37+38
• [2021 Aug] More on Moshe’s Laments: T-S NS 324.1
• [2021 Jul] New Tiqqunei Soferim: T-S A4.10 and T-S D1.37
• [2021 Jun] Jewish Parchment, Muslim Prayer – Uncovering an Early Abbasid Palimpsest: T-S Ar.51.73
• [2021 May] Bilingualism in Genizah Arabic poetry: T-S NS 108.60
• [2021 Apr] Five Greek Glosses to Bava Metzia 93b: T-S F2(1).164
• [2021 Mar] Muslim and Christian calendars in Jewish calendar booklets: T-S K2.33
• [2021 Feb] Kalila wa-Dimna: T-S Ar.6.32 part of the Arabic book Kalila wa Dimna, story nine – ʾIlāḏ, Balāḏ and Iirāḵt
• [2021 Jan] A Sixteenth-Century Trilingual Dictionary of Hebrew
• [2020 Dec] A Memorial list of Elijah b. Zechariah’s family: T-S 10J18.2
• [2020 Nov] Al-Qaṣīda al-Fiyyāšiyya – an old-new poem found in Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts: TS NS 224.4 and RNL Yevr.-Arab. II:1741
• [2020 Oct] Saʿadya's Hermeneutical Principles? T-S Ar. 50.159
• [2020 Sep] Yā Nafs – A Judaeo-Arabic Reproof for Yom Kippur (?): RNL Yevr.-Arab. II:2682 and T-S Ar.36.134
• [2020 Aug] Masoretic lists: what crowns on letters have to do with paragraph-breaks in the Torah
• [2020 Jul] The letter of ‘The Convert’: T-S 16.100
• [2020 Jun] A Fustat Summer Wedding: Pictures and Poetry in T-S NS 266.113
• [2020 May] A Shorthand Psalter: T-S A43.8
• [2020 Apr] Assembling a Life: Several Dozen New Fragments on Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi
• [2020 Mar] Addressing the Rambam: JTS ENA 4020.56
• [2020 Feb] Trouble with Adultery in the Cairo Genizah Biblical Manuscripts: T-S NS 67.34, T-S A40.77 et al.
• [2020 Jan] Following the Links in T-S NS 192.11: A Qur’anic Exercise from a Cairene Public School
• [2019 Dec] The letter for a man from somewhere: T-S 10J10.9
• [2019 Nov] From a lost book of Egyptian proverbs: T-S Ar.13.13[1]
• [2019 Oct] A hitherto unknown poem by Shelomoh ibn Gabirol: T-S NS 143.46*
• [2019 Sep] The Book against the People of the Equinox: T-S K6.63
• [2019 Aug] Saʿāda the enslaved woman: immersion and oblivion, T-S 12.872
• [2019 Jul] Reciting Hebrew with an Arabic Accent: A Partial List of Ṭeʿamim from T-S K9.11
• [2019 Jun] T-S Ar.38.64: A Maġribī-Script Qurʾān Fragment
• [2019 May] On Rashi, Maimonides and a lost Talmudic commentator - Joseph ben Yahaboy: T-S Ar. 49.163
• [2019 Apr] Standard Tiberian Pronunciation in a Non-Standard Form: T-S AS 64.206
• [2019 Mar] The Oldest Fragment of Origen's Hexapla: T-S 12.182
• [2019 Feb] The Latin Iliad in the Cairo Genizah (T-S Misc. 27.2 c-e)
• [2019 Jan] The Uncommon Bible: T-S AS 44.35
• [2018 Nov] Reconstructing folios from text editions: Lévi (1900) + T-S NS 98.18 and Bodl. MS Heb d.74.27
• [2018 Oct] The strange Hebrew of a blessing for the Prophets: T-S K6.113
• [2018 Sep] Six Centuries of Arab Poets Transmitted in a Booklet of Judaeo-Arabic Poetry
• [2018 Aug] A Young Syriac Pupil in the Cairo Genizah: Or.1081 2.75.30
• [2018 Jul] Reunited At Last: T-S K10.4 and Bodl. MS. Heb. c. 13/25
• [2018 Jun] A Muslim Genizah in Damascus
• [2018 May] Mishnah with Judeo-Arabic Translation: T-S E1.124
• [2018 Apr] Mourning in Late Antiquity: T-S NS 148.58
• [2018 Mar] Judaeo-Arabic Poetry in the Cairo Genizah: T-S Ar.37.127
• [2018 Feb] What happens on pilgrimage…: T-S 8J22.25
• [2018 Jan] On autographs of Saadya Gaon attested in the Genizah: CUL Or.1080 1.85 and T-S 8D.1
• [2017 Dec] T-S Ar. 51.86a: Shi‘ite and Karaite – a Fatimid melange
• [2017 Nov] The first owners of the Leningrad Codex: T-S 10J30.7
• [2017 Oct] Early Karaite Halakha according to Karaite Commentaries to the Bible (T-S 16.316)
• [2017 Sep] A Popular Calendar
• [2017 Aug] T-S 18J3.9 the Ramla Earthquake: for this relief much thanks
• [2017 Jul] The rotuli corpus of the medieval midrash Pirqa de-Rabbenu ha-Qadosh
• [2017 Mar] Writing Lines: T-S D1.108 and the Song of Moses
• [2017 Jan] Plants on Maimonides’ bookshelf: T-S Ar.41.41
• [2016 Dec] The Long Art: T-S AS 144.331
• [2016 Nov] On the identification and biography of the ‘poet for all seasons’ and his contact with Maimonides: T-S 10K8.3, T-S 8K13.8 and T-S NS 264.98
• [2016 Oct] Learning Torah and What is Connected to It: T-S Ar.18(1).16
• [2016 Sep] The Pursuit of Happiness: T-S Ar.44.201
• [2016 Aug] Who Wrote the Bible?
• [2016 Jun] Moses ben Judah - a 15$^{th}$ century bibliophile and gourmand
• [2016 May] What women want (most)? A feminist reading of the Talmud from the Middle Ages: T-S Ar.18(2).20
• [2016 Apr] Reuniting a Tax-farmer’s Archive
• [2016 Jan] Samuel ben Jacob: the Leningrad Codex B19a and T-S 10J5.15
• [2015 Sep] The earliest known fragment of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s Book on Numbness: T-S K6.194
• [2015 Aug] 'Protect me for (the tie of) blood and milk that is between us': TS 10J9.13 and Or. 1080 3.46
• [2015 Jun] A petition against an anti-social child: T-S Ar.40.3
• [2015 Apr] A cautionary tale concerning the shipment of ‘sanitary napkins’ from 11th-century Tunis: T-S K3.36
• [2015 Mar] Did the Jewish academies of Sura and Pumbedita hold original commentaries to the Talmud? T-S F9.41
• [2015 Feb] Medieval Chapbooks – Early collecting of Rabbi Judah ha-Levi’s poetry: T-S 13J24.13 and T-S K25.138
• [2015 Jan] The language of women: L-G Arabic 2.129
• [2014 Dec] A Dream Request for Ṣedaqah ben Maqmalyah: Mosseri VI.5
• [2014 Nov] Eli ben Yehoshua al-Lāḏiqī: a newly identified copyist of liturgical manuscripts
• [2014 Oct] Add.6463(e)3416: Breathing the 'dust of centuries'
• [2014 Sep] T-S 12.530: A day in the life of a court scribe
• [2014 May] 'Go to the house of the English': 19th-century Genizah merchants
• [2014 Mar] A newly discovered medical recipe written by Maimonides: Mosseri I.115.1
• [2013 Sep] A medieval Karaite pedagogical grammar of Hebrew
• [2013 Aug] The first discovery of Judaeo-Syriac: T-S K14.22
• [2013 Jan] The preacher who speaks like a parrot: two versions of a letter by R. Joshua ha-Nagid
• [2012 Nov] A Genizah manuscript of the Mishnah
• [2012 Jul] Karamanli – a new language variety in the Genizah: T-S AS 215.255
• [2012 May] A newly-discovered autograph responsum of Maimonides, lower script of a pseudo-palimpsest colophon: T-S AS 221.306–307
• [2012 Apr] A Judaeo-Arabic grammar of Classical Arabic: T-S Ar.31.254 and T-S 24.31
• [2012 Mar] Goitein's alleged simplistic linguistic analysis of T-S 13J24.22
• [2012 Mar] Goitein and girlish prose: T-S 13J24.22
• [2011 Nov] Additional Fragments Belonging to the First Order of Fustat
• [2011 Nov] Addendum to November 2011's Fragment of the Month
• [2011 Oct] The She’iltot, recycling manuscripts and Efrayim b. Shemarya, T-S F13.1 and more
• [2011 Sep] A New Autograph of Hilkhot ha-Yerushalmi by Maimonides, T-S NS 284.120
• [2011 May] ‘Only death remains for him’, T-S 10J7.4
• [2011 Apr] A poet for all seasons, T-S Misc.25.24 and T-S Misc.8.90
• [2011 Mar] The affair of the purloined cows, T-S Misc.22.310
• [2011 Feb] Rhubarb and dodder and absinth, Or.1081 J39
• [2011 Jan] A new fragment of the book of Ben Sira, T-S AS 118.78
• [2010 Dec] Geography in the Genizah, T-S Ar.30.221: Geographical texts in the Collection
• [2010 Nov] The oldest Hebrew fragment in the Collection? T-S NS 3.21
• [2010 Oct] A new letter to Maimonides, T-S Misc.28.98
• [2010 Sep] A Judaeo-Arabic version of Ibn Bahrīz’s treatise on logic, T-S K6.181
• [2010 Aug] Recovering the Kuzari, Mosseri III.258.1
• [2010 Jul] T-S K12.89: ‘Like Esther in front of Ahasuerus’
• [2009 Dec] A Ketubba in Palimpsest (T-S K23.3)
• [2009 Nov] Two fragments (T-S AS 72.79 and T-S Ar.1a.38) of Saadiah’s tafsīr by Samuel ben Jacob
• [2009 Oct] Vis, liber zun, ikh hob dir vil brif geshribn: Yiddish letters in the Genizah
• [2009 Sep] T-S Misc.7.140: an early copy of the Guide
• [2009 Aug] Syria’s links with the Jews of Cairo in the 15th and 16th centuries
• [2009 Jul] T-S 6H9 – 21, the papyrus codex rebound
• [2008 Oct] T-S AS 149.178: A Legal Query in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a Bashful Bride
• [2008 Sep] T-S AS 145.333: Keeping it in the family: the handwriting of Hillel and Ḥalfon
• [2008 Apr] T-S AS 157.50: A twitch divination text in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh
• [2008 Mar] T-S AS 159.248, T-S AS 159.247: an unidentified Indian language
• [2008 Feb] A hitherto unknown dictionary of Solomon b. Mubarrak, the Karaite (T-S NS 302.42, T-S NS 302.4)
• [2007 Nov] An Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (T-S Ar.1a.136)
• [2007 Oct] A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86)
• [2007 Sep] ‘Destroy the life of N.N.!’: A magical recipe: T-S AS 162.51
• [2007 Aug] Moses ben Solomon of Salerno, T-S AS 143.242
• [2007 Jul] Ḥalfon’s wife, Mosseri Ia.29
• [2007 Jun] Redating a leaf from a medieval Hebrew Book of Tobit (TSA45.25)
• [2007 May] St Augustine in the Genizah
• [2007 Apr] Two New Responsa of Moses Maimonides