Taylor-Schechter Fragment of the Month
About this collection
A particularly interesting fragment from the last month, unearthed by the research team or one of our Genizah colleagues worldwide:
- [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
- [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 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 Aug] Syria’s links with the Jews of Cairo in the 15th and 16th centuries
- [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 (TS A45.25)
- [2007 May] St Augustine in the Genizah
- [2007 Apr] Two New Responsa of Moses Maimonides
Recent Submissions
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Additional Fragments Belonging to the First Order of Fustat
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2011-11-01) -
The She’iltot, recycling manuscripts and Efrayim b. Shemarya, T-S F13.1 and more
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2011-10-01) -
A New Autograph of Hilkhot ha-Yerushalmi by Maimonides, T-S NS 284.120
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2011-09-01) -
‘Only death remains for him’, T-S 10J7.4
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2011-05-01)
