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🧵I’m very excited to announce my new book, ‘The Illustrated Cairo Genizah’ (co-authored w/Melonie Schmierer-Lee), is now available for pre-order! It’s a large, coffee-table style book with 320+ images from the #CairoGenizah. See here for order info: linktr.ee/CambridgeGRU #newbooks

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Obsessed with this poem about rats which starts, optimistically, with 'I comawnde alle þe ratones þat are here abowte' 🐀 Found in Ox, Bod, Rawl. C. 288, f. 113v (flyleaf), and in prose in Cam, Gonville & Caius College, 457/395, f. 1v (with sad upside down man)

Happy 7th day of Chanukah! How many lights do you see, Picard?

Happy 8th day of Chanukah from Newark airport

Greek literature in chronological order, from its dawn down to the Roman conquest (146 BC), courtesy of the Loeb Classical Library:

Our Magna Carta display is currently open in Blackwell Hall at the Weston Library. Visit for free and learn more about one of the most controversial documents in British history.

— 👀 If you know, you know

The oldest Qur’an manuscript in the Haram al-Sharif Islamic Museum, Jerusalem. This luxurious mushaf could date from the 8-9th CE, but only the 2nd half is kept there. It was later endowed to the Dome of the Rock. A 16th note attributes the copy to Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥusayn.

I am delighted to become the new Chair of René Cassin🧡. First, I want to pay a huge tribute to Danny Silverstone, our fantastic outgoing chair, from whom I have learned a huge amount, and to Mia Hasenson-Gross, our superb Executive Director.

The said I couldn’t write 51 6 500 in Roman numerals. I was like L I V I D (Any other examples of iocus typographicus?)

Parker Library On the Web massively transformed the access to medieval manuscripts Just listen to Stewart J. Brookes give a powerful testimony on the impact it had for research corpus.cam.ac.uk/articles/openi… #PLOW #ParkerLibrary

Three overdue library books were returned to our fellow librarians at Lady Margaret Hall last week...20 years after they were originally borrowed. We hope this good deed inspires others to return any library books they may have accidentally absorbed into their own collections.

It was not at all easy, BUT… I’ve cut (!) my hair to donate it to make a wig for a child that has sadly lost their hair due to chemotherapy. If you’d like to support the charity’s endeavours, I’d be grateful for your support: justgiving.com/page/zgbbarmit…

I was thinking of Regina Spektor while I was being shorn: “Oh, I cut his hair myself one night A pair of dull scissors in the yellow light And he told me that I'd done alright And kissed me 'til the mornin' light […] Samson went back to bed Not much hair left on his head”

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In the midst of so much uncertainty and darkness, I am grateful to Four Way Books for publishing these ten new beautiful books of poetry and that I am able to announce: my book, Boat of Letters, is among them. They are all available for pre-order now. fourwaybooks.com/site/fall-2025…