A gorgeous prayerbook (maḥzor) for the high holidays copied in Mallorca(!) in 1332 CE, recently spotted by PGP researcher Tani Robinson.
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/4…
New Syriac AI translator!
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"When I parted from you, I intended to sail to the island of Cyprus, but a strong storm diverted the boat to Tarsus. I was very much afraid that the king would take hold of me and detain me. . . ."
Letter from Alexandria to Cairo, ~1212 CE
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/8…
I know I spend a lot of time plugging my latest book, since I'm unemployed and have no marketing team, but... surprise! Another book. This one's free. It has 18 new articles by scholars from the last 50 years of the Cambridge Genizah Research Unit.
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Not to be missed! A landmark new book in Arabic documentary legal studies by Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem. Includes many previously unidentified Cairo Geniza fragments.
pictured: geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…
I am thrilled to announce our new book, 'The Illustrated Cairo Genizah', is officially published! You can now order a copy from the link in my bio and a human will mail it to you. You can also register for our upcoming @heffersbookshop launch event here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-illustra…
A Judaeo-Arabic text about Alexander the Great with the text of a letter from the Persian king Darius ("king of kings and master of the nations of the world") commanding Alexander to submit to him
geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/4…
It is still September, and we have September's Fragment of the Month for you. Yehuda Seewald looks at the blurring of lines between Saadya's biblical exegesis and polemic:
lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…
Absolutely charming view of Ottoman Cairo from an 18th c. copy of Pirî Reis' 16th c. atlas Kitāb-i baḥriye, love the little pyramids in the top right corner (Walters Ms. W.658):
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