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:
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
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