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1 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

1 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Peshitta. . Throwback Thursday: Trousseau list tells only half a story.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 20 May 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 41 of the

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. geomancy. . Throwback Thursday: What does the future hold?. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 10 Feb 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 68 of the printed edition of

1 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.

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Passover. . Throwback Thursday: Variations in the Haggadah text.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 14 Apr 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 55 of the printed

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. polygamy. . Throwback Thursday: Cases of polygamy.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 8 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 12 of the printed edition of Genizah

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Armenian. . Throwback Thursday: Armenian and Romance vocabulary for the discerning traveller.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 3 Jun 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. accounts. . 'Coptic' numerals and Genizah studies.. By Magdalen M. Connolly on Wed 2 Jun 2021. It has long been customary in both Genizah studies and Arabic codicology to describe the

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. numerals. . 'Coptic' numerals and Genizah studies.. By Magdalen M. Connolly on Wed 2 Jun 2021. It has long been customary in both Genizah studies and Arabic codicology to describe the

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. theology. . 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?

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. mu'tazila. . 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?

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. France. . Web: Genizah podcasts and more on the Letter of the Convert.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Mon 8 Aug 2022. The Cairo Genizah was the focus of four ‘History for the Curious’

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. captives. . 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Sufism. . 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

1 Jul 2024: Rebecca, you have a new book coming out in February 2022.

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. scroll. . Q&A Wednesday: The Bible under microscope, with Nehemia Gordon.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Nehemia Gordon on Wed 13 Apr 2022. Nehemia, what are you working on today? I’m a

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. literary. . Q&A Wednesday: Talking skulls with Magdalen Connolly.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Magdalen Connolly on Wed 19 May 2021. Magdalen - which manuscript are you working on today?

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Image Supply and Reproduction. Image: Celestial Spheres from ʻAjāʼib al-makhlūqāt (MS Nn.3.74, f.15v), Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Ordering images

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Japanese Collections. Japanese collections. The Japanese Collections at Cambridge University Library in the Aoi Pavilion include over 100,000 volumes of Japanese books, including around 10,000 early

1 Jul 2024: In the synagogal domain, new liturgical customs and texts have. ... 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

1 Jul 2024: More about less: A New Shorthand Targum Manuscript..

1 Jul 2024: Pepe, what are you working on at the moment? I’m working on a new book about daily life in al-Andalus, and I’ve been looking for new materials to

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. trousseau. . Throwback Thursday: Trousseau list tells only half a story.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 20 May 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 41 of the

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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Persian. . The “Worman Archive” in the Genizah Research Unit and the Problem of Tenuous Part-Time Contracts and/or Sudden Death for Archival Research.. By Nick Posegay on Thu 13 Oct

1 Jul 2024: Goitein:. An exciting discovery recently made in the Unit may well open a new chapter in the history of Hebrew printing.

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Gershom. . Throwback Thursday: Cases of polygamy.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 8 Jul 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 12 of the printed edition of Genizah

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Samaritan. . Throwback Thursday: A Samaritan discovery.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 9 Sep 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 40 of the printed edition of

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Official Publications. Official Publications. New: LibGuide for working with Official Publications material.

1 Jul 2024: Throwback Thursday: New interpretation of circumcision..

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Modern Greek. Modern Greek collections. The University Library has got over 13,000 items in Modern Greek in the electronic catalogue, stretching from the 16th century to the current day. The 16th to 18th

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. polemic. . One letter at a time: reconstructing Saadya's Refutation of Ibn Sāqawayh.. By Nadia Vidro on Thu 13 Jul 2023. Most Genizah fragments are damaged – “torn”, “stained”,

1 Jul 2024: The additional services. ArchiveSearch now upgraded: explore the new features. 31 Jan 2024. ... We have upgraded to a new version of ArchiveSearch, our discovery platform for archive materials.

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. slave. . Q&A Wednesday: Slavery, sex, and status, with Craig Perry.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Craig Perry on Wed 11 Aug 2021. Hi Craig – what are you working on at the moment? Next

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. alchemy. . 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Syriac. . 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. grammar. . 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

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Chancery. . Throwback Thursday: Chancery deeds.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 25 Nov 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 56 of the printed edition of Genizah

1 Jul 2024: the light of new research, including by my colleague Paola Tartakoff, I realized that conversion from Judaism to Christianity.

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Slavonic collections. Slavonic collections. The Slavonic Collections at Cambridge University Library exist to support the curriculum and research needs of the university in the humanities and the social

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. mystical. . Throwback Thursday: Magic Moments.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 16 Sep 2021. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issues 8 and 9 of the printed edition of

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. divination. . Throwback Thursday: What does the future hold?. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee on Thu 10 Feb 2022. Our Throwback Thursday this week is taken from issue 68 of the printed edition

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. earthquake. . ‘We have seen the mountains shaking’: Fatimid humanitarian relief and the earthquake of 1033.. By Ben Outhwaite on Tue 7 Feb 2023. In December 1033 CE – late afternoon

1 Jul 2024: Pepe, what are you working on at the moment? I’m working on a new book about daily life in al-Andalus, and I’ve been looking for new materials to

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. commentary. . Book: An Anonymous Karaite Commentary on Hosea from the Cairo Genizah, by Friedrich Niessen.. By Joseph Habib on Fri 17 Sep 2021. An Anonymous Karaite Commentary on Hosea

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Babylonian. . 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

1 Jul 2024: By Ben Outhwaite on Fri 27 Oct 2023. Today we are announcing a new piece of Genizah research and a new book in the field of book history from our friends

1 Jul 2024: Has tags:By Amir Ashur on Wed 9 Jun 2021. A new article in the Guardian (‘Unchain your wife’: the Orthodox women shining a light on ‘get’ refusal) raises the issue

1 Jul 2024: Search site. Cambridge University Library. Genizah Fragments. Ibn Yiju. . Q&A Wednesday: Slavery, sex, and status, with Craig Perry.. By Melonie Schmierer-Lee and Craig Perry on Wed 11 Aug 2021. Hi Craig – what are you working on at the moment?