Just found the letter that Israel Davidson sent the Cambridge University Library in 1917 following his discovery of the manuscripts of the poet Yannai in the #Genizah. Nice of him to let us know about his groundbreaking discovery, since we were unlikely to see his publication in those days.

He may be a bit vague on vowels, but the scribe of this paper #Genizah Bible can sure produce a fancy line-filler (T-S AS 1.1)

Did Moses #Maimonides know Spanish? Fantastic #Genizah discovery of an Arabic-Spanish word list in his handwriting: lib.cam.ac.uk/genizah-fragme…

The masorete Moshe Moḥe's spelling of Issachar (from #Genizah T-S AS 8.129). For more, see the great new (& free to download!) book by Aaron Hornkohl: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

Who would have thought that of all the #Hebrew letters it would be ט and י that gave this child so much trouble – #Genizah cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-LG-LIT…

Or this schoolkid's #Hebrew exercise: it was all going so well until lamed. #Genizah T-S NS 70.79

A new contender for the earliest dated medieval Hebrew colophon. Move over 903, we now have 841 CE. lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de… #Genizah

La Edad de Oro: sefarad-israel.es/La_Edad_de_Oro #Genizah #exhibition #Sefarad

Signature of the day in this partnership agreement from 1814: [Someone] son of [Someone] should be very proud of their penmanship! Or.1080 4.29 #Genizah

Today's best signature is from the same document as yesterday (Or.1080 J29), where the witness יוסף ענף (= 'Joseph Branch') draws a (terrible) branch under his name: #Genizah

Signature of the day number 3 (?). I can imagine the letter-carrier standing around impatiently as Hayyim Abraham Bitton added the squiggles, googley-eyes and filigree to his name (cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-NS-…) #Ottoman #Genizah

Zen and the Art of Manuscripts: the secret is to read the absence of words #IronGallInk #Bible #Genizah #CambridgeUniversityLibrary

Esther Scroll from the Mosseri Collection -- in pretty good condition, but, like me, needs to be encouraged to relax #Genizah #conservation