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:
- [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 Jan] On autographs of Saadya Gaon attested in the Genizah: CUL Or.1080 1.85 and T-S 8D.1
- [2017 Oct] Early Karaite Halakha according to Karaite Commentaries to the Bible (T-S 16.316)
- [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 15th 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 Qus?a ibn Luqa’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
- [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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Reconstructing folios from text editions: Lévi (1900) + T-S NS 98.18 and Bodl. MS Heb d.74.27
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2018-11-01) -
St Augustine in the Genizah
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2007-05-01) -
Redating a leaf from a medieval Hebrew Book of Tobit (TS A45.25)
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, 2007-06-01) -
Six Centuries of Arab Poets Transmitted in a Booklet of Judaeo-Arabic Poetry
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, 2018-09-01)
