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27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Special Collections Reading Rooms handling guidelines. These guidelines have been drawn up to help you use our collections for research whilst ensuring that they are preserved for future generations of

27 Jul 2024: So, if you are interested in hearing what he thinks about the Kyiv Letter’s origins (spoiler: he thinks Norman Golb was spot on) or the new Maimonides discovery by Prof.

27 Jul 2024: How do children practise writing the alphabet? By writing each new letter, one at a time, over and over again, of course.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Origen. . Palimpsests, recycled manuscripts, are the focus of ‘Ghost Words: Reading the Past’, Cambridge University Library’s current major exhibition.. By Ben Outhwaite on Wed 12

27 Jul 2024: Has tags:By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Wed 5 May 2021. The researchers of the GRU, toiling away with their noses to the manuscript coalface, are ideally placed to discover new

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. cheese. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. cipher. . Q&A Wednesday: Secret codes and erotic prose, with Alan Elbaum.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Alan Elbaum on Wed 22 Jun 2022. Alan, which fragment are you looking at today? My

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. kosher. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yannai. . Palimpsests, recycled manuscripts, are the focus of ‘Ghost Words: Reading the Past’, Cambridge University Library’s current major exhibition.. By Ben Outhwaite on Wed 12

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. travel. . Pirates of the Genizaaaar!. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 19 Sep 2021. When you took to the high seas in the Middle Ages it was a calculated risk, but quite a considerable one. You

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hanukka. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Tue 30 Nov 2021. Happy Hanukka to all readers of Genizah Fragments! Yesterday evening (in what was possibly a first for the University Library?) a

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. debt. . Q&A Wednesday: Ottoman Karaites and conflict, with Dotan Arad.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Dotan Arad on Wed 4 Aug 2021. Dotan, what are you working on at the moment? I’m

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Hayyuj. . Q&A Wednesday: José Martínez Delgado and the letters of al-Andalus.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and José Martínez Delgado on Wed 7 Jul 2021. Pepe, what are you working on at

27 Jul 2024: Cambridge had existing strengths in Imperial and Commonwealth Studies and, perhaps most importantly, had just added a spacious new extension. ... Although new publications are no longer added to the RCS Library, it still occasionally acquires and accepts

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Graduate. 1) to be admitted to any degree at the University, as, for example, one might ‘graduate D.D.’, but normally used of admission to the BA; (2) a person who has been admitted BA. Contact us.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Mishnah. . Q&A Wednesday: Julia Krivoruchko on the mannerisms of Greek glosses.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Julia Krivoruchko on Wed 8 Sep 2021. Julia, what are you working on today?

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Yiddish. . Throwback Thursday: Rachel’s Missing Letters?. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 21 Oct 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 58 of the printed edition of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Safed. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 31 Mar 2024. The Genizah has preserved only a few glimpses of the life of the influential qabbalist Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, the Ari – הארי ז׳׳ל,

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. yeshiva. . Throwback Thursday: Study of Babylonian Jewry.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 17 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 21 of the printed edition of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Shapira. . Throwback Thursday: Uncovering the Karaites.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 22 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 17 of the printed edition of

27 Jul 2024: At any one time, I may be describing documentary fragments from the T-S New Series, checking descriptions produced by other GRU researchers, enriching the TEI of descriptions with.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Shavuot. . A shopping list for Shavuot.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Fri 14 May 2021. The items in this shopping list reveal the careful planning and budgeting needed to celebrate the

27 Jul 2024: Zina, you have a new book coming out soon about inks in Genizah manuscripts.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. fishing. . Throwback Thursday: Protecting fishing rights.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 13 May 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 13 of the printed edition of

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Deposit Service. Deposit Service: introduction and getting started. Image of the Deposit Service Homepage. About. The Deposit Service is an online service for transferring digital files to Cambridge

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. witches. . Q&A Wednesday: Witches vs Theologians with Zvi Stampfer.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Zvi Stampfer on Wed 23 Jun 2021. Hi Zvi, which manuscript are you working on today? I’m

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Qurʾan. . Book: Points of Contact, by Nick Posegay.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Fri 7 Jan 2022. Points of Contact: The Shared Intellectual History of Vocalisation in Syriac, Arabic, and

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. widow. . A Millennium of Jewish Women’s Voices.. By Sarah Bunin Benor and Abby Graham on Wed 2 Nov 2022. Historically, most well-known documents in Jewish languages have been penned by

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. theatre. . Q&A Wednesday: Hebrew maqama poetry meets pop culture, with Michael Rand.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Michael Rand on Wed 15 Sep 2021. Michael, what are you working on at the

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. resource. . Online resource: Calendar Fragments as a Tool for Palaeography.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 10 Jun 2022. A timeline of medieval calendar booklets from the Taylor-Schechter

27 Jul 2024: the light of new research, including by my colleague Paola Tartakoff, I realized that conversion from Judaism to Christianity. ... Nadia, you’re starting a new project today. Can you tell us about it?

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. pirates. . Pirates of the Genizaaaar!. By Ben Outhwaite on Sun 19 Sep 2021. When you took to the high seas in the Middle Ages it was a calculated risk, but quite a considerable one. You

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. kashrut. . Call the (medieval) Cheesemonger.. By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 4 Jun 2021. On this National Cheese Day, I thought I would take a look at what traces of cheese we can find among

27 Jul 2024: legislation. This can only be changed by government through new legislation. If you require access to material that is only held by the Library as an electronic legal deposit item, you

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. science. . Q&A Wednesday: A scholarly alchemist, with Gabriele Ferrario.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Gabriele Ferrario on Wed 6 Jul 2022. Gabriele, what are you working on at the

27 Jul 2024: Has tags:By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Wed 17 Nov 2021. The Israel Museum’s new exhibition, Hear, O Israel, The Magic of the Shema, explores the complex relationship between ‘religion’ ... Take a plate of lead and write on it in the first hour of the

27 Jul 2024: In 2014, UL conservator Mary French was asked to examine a parchment fragment in the New Series which had been encapsulated with a small piece of parchment folded over and obscuring

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. dowry. . Q&A Wednesday: The value of small things, with Oded Zinger.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Oded Zinger on Wed 14 Jul 2021. Oded, what are you working on at the moment? I’m

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Egypt. . Q&A Wednesday: Tales of Cambridge collectors, with Catherine Ansorge.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Catherine Ansorge on Wed 19 Oct 2022. Catherine, what are you working on at

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ashkenaz. . Throwback Thursday: How ‘M’ solved calendar mystery.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 9 Jun 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 46 of the printed

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. mastara. . Q&A Wednesday: Remote working turns up Maimonides’ ruling board, with Ben Outhwaite.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Ben Outhwaite on Wed 13 Oct 2021. Ben, what have you been

27 Jul 2024: Many, of course, found themselves refugees, arriving in a new city and dependent either on family or on the generosity of the local Jewish community.

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. trade. . Q&A Wednesday: Flax, tax and trade hacks, with Lorenzo Bondioli.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Lorenzo Bondioli on Wed 3 Nov 2021. Lorenzo, what are you working on at the moment?

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Music. Music. The Anderson Room is the reading room for modern music collections and contains:. The card catalogues (for items catalogued before 1989, not part of our online catalogues). Computer terminals

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Accessibility and disabled library users. Accessibility and disabled library users. Cambridge University Libraries are committed to providing equal access to our services and facilities for all users in all

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Inter-Library Loans. Inter-Library Loans. The University Library offers an Inter-Library Loan service which provides access for Cambridge students and staff to material not held within Cambridge University,

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Web accessibility statement. Cambridge University Library is committed to making the information and resources that it provides via the web accessible to all users. Cambridge University Library runs a

27 Jul 2024: Clarck will talk about collections of medical recipes that contain references to places, patients, and medical practitioners, and how cataloguing such “receptaria” in detail can reveal new insights about their origins. ... presents new bibliographic

27 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. What's On. What's on. 30Jul. The Really Popular Book Club: Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. 7PM TO 8PM. 8Aug. A Mind to Murder: Celebrating P.D. James. 5.30PM TO 7PM. 8Aug. A Mind to Murder:

27 Jul 2024: The new fellowship engaging with collections from beyond European language areas is associated with a visiting fellowship at St John’s College.