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:
- The Long Art: T-S AS 144.331 [2016 December]
- 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 November]
- Learning Torah and What is Connected to It: T-S Ar.18(1).16 [2016 October]
- The Pursuit of Happiness: T-S Ar.44.201 [2016 September]
- Who Wrote the Bible? [2016 August]
- Moses ben Judah - a 15$^{th}$ century bibliophile and gourmand [2016 June]
- What women want (most)? A feminist reading of the Talmud from the Middle Ages: T-S Ar.18(2).20 [2016 May]
- Reuniting a Tax-farmer’s Archive [2016 April]
- Samuel ben Jacob: the Leningrad Codex B19a and T-S 10J5.15 [2016 January]
- The earliest known fragment of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s Book on Numbness: T-S K6.194 [2015 September]
- 'Protect me for (the tie of) blood and milk that is between us': TS 10J9.13 and Or. 1080 3.46 [2015 August]
- A petition against an anti-social child: T-S Ar.40.3 [2015 June]
- A cautionary tale concerning the shipment of ‘sanitary napkins’ from 11th-century Tunis: T-S K3.36 [2015 April]
- Did the Jewish academies of Sura and Pumbedita hold original commentaries to the Talmud? T-S F9.41 [2015 March]
- Medieval Chapbooks – Early collecting of Rabbi Judah ha-Levi’s poetry: T-S 13J24.13 and T-S K25.138 [2015 February]
- The language of women: L-G Arabic 2.129 [2015 January]
- A Dream Request for Ṣedaqah ben Maqmalyah: Mosseri VI.5 [2014 December]
- Eli ben Yehoshua al-Lāḏiqī: a newly identified copyist of liturgical manuscripts [2014 November]
- Add.6463(e)3416: Breathing the 'dust of centuries' [2014 October]
- T-S 12.530: A day in the life of a court scribe [2014 September]
- Go to the house of the English': 19th-century Genizah merchants [2014 May]
Recent Submissions
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A petition against an anti-social child: T-S Ar.40.3
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, 2015-06-01) -
'Protect me for (the tie of) blood and milk that is between us': TS 10J9.13 and Or. 1080 3.46
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, 2015-08-01) -
The earliest known fragment of Qusṭā ibn Lūqā’s Book on Numbness: T-S K6.194
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, 2015-09-01) -
A Dream Request for Ṣedaqah ben Maqmalyah: Mosseri VI.5
(Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, Cambridge University Library, University of Cambridge, 2014-12-01)
