Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month

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

[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
[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 (TS A45.25)
[2007 May] St Augustine in the Genizah
[2007 Apr] Two New Responsa of Moses Maimonides

Recent Submissions

An Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (T-S Ar.1a.136)

Niessen, Friedrich (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2007-11-01)
A hitherto unknown dictionary of Solomon b. Mubarrak, the Karaite (T-S NS 302.42, T-S NS 302.4)

Delgado, José Martínez; Niessen, Friedrich (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2008-02-01)
A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86)

Wagner, Esther-Miriam (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2007-10-01)
‘Destroy the life of N.N.!’: A magical recipe: T-S AS 162.51

Niessen, Friedrich; Bohak, Gideon (Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2007-09-01)

Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month

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Recent Submissions

An Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (T-S Ar.1a.136) ﻿

A hitherto unknown dictionary of Solomon b. Mubarrak, the Karaite (T-S NS 302.42, T-S NS 302.4) ﻿

A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86) ﻿

‘Destroy the life of N.N.!’: A magical recipe: T-S AS 162.51 ﻿

An Arabic Translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (T-S Ar.1a.136)

A hitherto unknown dictionary of Solomon b. Mubarrak, the Karaite (T-S NS 302.42, T-S NS 302.4)

A newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86)

‘Destroy the life of N.N.!’: A magical recipe: T-S AS 162.51