Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 13 of the printed edition of Genizah Fragments, published in April 1987:
In the course of editing a corpus of mediaeval Arabic legal and chancery documents preserved in the Cambridge Genizah Collection, Dr Geoffrey Khan, Research Assistant in the Genizah Unit, has discovered a decree on the subject of fishing rights.
The decree was issued by the Fatimid government of Egypt in the twelfth century and is intended to protect... Read More