Link: https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/genizah
Project Status: Ongoing
The Cambridge Genizah collection is one of the largest groups of medieval Jewish manuscript fragments in the world. Famously, Cambridge is the repository for most of the materials of the Cairo Genizah, which were brought there with the Jewish community’s permission in the early 20th century. Roughly 193,000 items from the Genizah are housed in the library today. The digital collections contain over 20,000 digitized and fully searchable items with downloadable metadata and a variety of image sizes in IIIF format. Further, Cambridge has encouraged community-driven metadata and allowed users to tag fragments with keywords, which has expanded search opportunities.
Resource details:
Resource Type: Catalog, Crowd-sourced database, Images, Manuscripts/Facsimiles, Searchable Database
License: No Fee, Paid, Pay-per-use
Modern Language: English
Medieval content details:
Dates: 1000 - 1600
Subject: Archaeology, Biblical studies, Death, Burial, Economy, Epistolography, Family, Children, Marriage, Genealogy, History, Jews, Judaism, Law, Liturgy, Manuscript Studies, Material Culture, Muslims, Islam, Philosophy, Theology, Religious Law, Scriptural Exegesis, Theology
Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Art and Artifacts, Manuscripts, Material Evidence, Textual Evidence
Geopolitical Region: Africa, Egypt
Original Language: Arabic (Middle), Aramaic, Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic