Marina Rustow

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I’m moved 😢 All I knew about the life of this ancestor of mine were the books, the Garibaldi campaign and the dramatic ending. @Roelkonijn this was brilliant!

Medieval Judaeo-Arabic manuscript recording how to say "OMG" in fifteen languages. If you happen to know Samaritan, Nubian, Rusian, {A}rmenian, Oghuz, Coptic, or any of the half dozen mystery languages here, please advise! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

A hybrid panel at @CBL_Dublin on A. S. Yahuda featuring @a_el_shamsy, @eckropf and Moya Carey, moderated by your humble servant. This coming Wednesday, 28 June, 13h EDT, 18h local in Dublin. All welcome. chesterbeatty.ie/whats-on/abrah…

Another opportunity to work with my amazing @genizalab team!

Fun opportunity to work with me!🦸‍♀️🦹‍♀️📜✍️ 🧑‍💻 If you're less than 4 years post-PhD and into digital humanities *and* premodern textual artifacts (manuscripts, archives, coins, inscriptions, etc), please apply for this postdoc. Deadline: May 7, 2023. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

A monumental new Fragment of the Month from @GenizaLab's own Yosef Ginsberg on new fragments of Sefer Tagin ("The Book of Crownlets") lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/de…

Absolutely stunning document

@NPosegay @JewishStudiesUK @OpenBookPublish @LeverhulmeTrust @Gates_Cambridge @UChicagoAlumni I just now ordered a print copy anyway. You know, for the beach. (More like: for the couch and the NYC subway.) I can’t wait to read it!

@GenizaLab @medievalqabq!!

Was not expecting Google Lens to work on this as well (or as badly?) as this 😆

Stumbled on seven fragments of a modern Armenian text - any takers? What is it? Shelfmarks T-S AS 195.201 - T-S AS 195.207, better images accessible on fjms.genizah.org

@GenizaLab This looks like an extract from an edition of the tenth century History of Yovhannēs Drasxanakertc‘i.

We still know little about how medieval Islamic law worked in practice, despite having access to many legal documents. By analyzing legal texts in creative ways, Dr. Marina Rustow (@mrustow) is shedding new light on the role of judges (qadis) & how they worked. A thread. 🧵

Today is the official publication date of my book The King's Road. It is widely available now, but if you order from PUP website press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…, you can use the code P321 for 30% off!

Ever wonder what kind of stuff you'd find on the shelves of a pharmacy in medieval Cairo? Wonder no more! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

@GenizaLab In my experience geniza letter-writers are the most magnificent guilt-trippers

ולא תאכר אילו הדברים כי לא תדע מה ילד יום ולו היה לך אב בחיים לא היה כמוני באהבתי אותך ושלומך ירבה

Letter about buying oil with a twist at the end: "Do not delay these things, for you do not know what the day may bring forth (Proverbs 27:1)—and even if your father were alive, he would not love you like I do." geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

New join for this letter from a disconsolate mother to her son in al-Ushmūnayn (Upper Egypt), 1146–54 CE. Found by @OdedZinger! geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents/2…

@yakabikaj @dxrsam_0 Italian: se mio nonno avesse avuto tre palle sarebbe stato un flipper. If my grandfather had had three balls, he would have been a pinball machine.

@DavidRSelis archives.jewishmuseum.ca/dr-menachem-sc…

@mrustow What’s the source of the image?

Menahem Schmelzer, JTS’s librarian, examining geniza fragments in 1969 with Anna Kleban, a rare books librarian and former assistant to Alexander Marx (d. 1953). For your #fragmentfriday

@Leonie_Rau_ @FBGotha It seems this was discovered after Charles Perry’s LAL edition. Do you know who discovered it?

Recently discovered manuscript of the anonymous 13th-century Syrian cookbook al-Wuṣla ilā l-ḥabīb in the MS collections of @FBGotha (Ms. orient. A 1346): here's the last page, describing recipes for breath-sweetening perfumes. This page was wrongly bound as folio 5 of the MS.