MORE ON THE MAJOR GRANT received by the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection for the cataloguing and online release of the Cairo Geniza manuscripts. The Cambridge Evening News has a nice article:

Medieval documents get £475,000 grant

PRECIOUS documents which offer a window on the world of the 10th-13th Centuries have received a major grant towards their upkeep.

The Taylor-Schechter Genizah Collection is regarded as the largest and most important collection of medieval Jewish, Hebrew and Arabic documents in the world, and was entrusted to Cambridge University more than 100 years ago by the Chief Rabbi of the 1,000-year-old Ben Ezra Synagogue in Old Cairo.

Now the 140,000 fragments, housed at Cambridge University Library, will be described, catalogued and digitized, making them accessible worldwide, thanks to a £475,000 grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Prof Stefan Reif, founder director of the collection, said the collection was at least equal in importance to the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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Bring on the army of philologists!