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Fragment of the month

A particularly interesting fragment from the last month, unearthed by the research team or one of our Genizah colleagues worldwide. There are more than 190,000 to choose from, so it should be a long-running feature of the site.

November 2011, T-S 13H3.11 and T-S NS 325.6: additional fragments belonging to the First Order of Fustat

October 2011, T-S F13.1: the She’iltot, recycling manuscripts and Efrayim b. Shemarya

September 2011, T-S NS 284.120: a new autograph of Hilkhot ha-Yerushalmi by Maimonides

May 2011, T-S 10J7.4: ‘Only death remains for him’

April 2011, T-S Misc.25.24 and T-S Misc.8.90: a poet for all seasons

March 2011, T-S Misc.22.310: the affair of the purloined cows

February 2011, Or.1081 J39: rhubarb and dodder and absinth

January 2011, T-S AS 118.78: a new fragment of the book of Ben Sira

December 2010, T-S Ar.30.221: geography in the Genizah

November 2010, T-S NS 3.21: the oldest Hebrew fragment in the Collection?

October 2010, T-S Misc.28.98: a new letter to Maimonides

September 2010, T-S K6.181: a Judaeo-Arabic version of Ibn Bahrīz’s treatise on logic

August 2010, Mosseri III.258.1: recovering the Kuzari

July 2010, T-S K12.89: ‘Like Esther in front of Ahasuerus’

December 2009, a ketubba in palimpsest (T-S K23.3)

November 2009, two fragments (T-S AS 72.79 and T-S Ar.1a.38) of Saadiah’s tafsīr by Samuel ben Jacob

October 2009, Vis, liber zun, ikh hob dir vil brif geshribn: Yiddish letters in the Genizah

September 2009, T-S Misc.7.140: an early copy of the Guide

August 2009, T-S NS 264.56 and T-S NS 324.118, Syria’s links with the Jews of Cairo in the 15th and 16th centuries

July 2009, T-S 6H9-21, the papryus codex rebound

October 2008, T-S AS 149.178: a legal query in Judaeo-Arabic concerning a Bashful Bride

September 2008, T-S AS 145.333: keeping it in the family: the handwriting of Hillel and Ḥalfon

April 2008, T-S AS 157.50, a twitch divination text in the hand of Ḥalfon b. Manasseh

March 2008, T-S AS 159.248, T-S AS 159.247: an unidentified Indian language

February 2008, a hitherto unknown dictionary of Solomon b. Mubarrak, the Karaite (T-S NS 302.42, T-S NS 302.4)

November 2007, an Arabic translation of the Samaritan Pentateuch (T-S Ar.1a.136)

October 2007, a newly-discovered fragment of a letter written by Maimonides (T-S AS 152.86)

September 2007, ‘Destroy the life of N.N.!’, a magical recipe, T-S AS 162.51

August 2007, Moses ben Solomon of Salerno, T-S AS 143.242

July 2007, Halfon's wife, Mosseri Ia.29

June 2007, redating a leaf from a medieval Hebrew book of Tobit (T-S A45.25)

May 2007, St Augustine in the Genizah

April 2007, two new responsa of Moses Maimonides