Fragment of the Month – Cambridge University Library Special Collections

‘Only death remains for him’: Taylor-Schechter Genizah Fragment of the Month

Posted on 24 May 2011 by Special Collections

Torture was an inescapable fact of life in medieval jails, and the Genizah has preserved an extraordinary letter, probably written in the 13th century, in […]

Fragment of the Month, Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection