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.
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
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
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