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Fragment of the month

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

May 2012, A newly-discovered autograph responsum of Maimonides, lower script of a pseudo-palimpsest colophon: T-S AS 221.306–307

April 2012, a Judaeo-Arabic grammar of Classical Arabic: T-S Ar.31.254 and T-S 24.31

March 2012, T-S 13J24.22: Goitein and girlish prose

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