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Nick Posegay deposited Eleven Colophons by Ten Printers from Seven Cities in the Cairo Genizah in the group Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 8 months, 3 weeks ago
While the Cairo Genizah is mainly known as a repository of medieval manuscripts, modern Genizah collections also contain thousands of folios from texts printed with moveable type between 1500 and 1900. Most of these imprints come from Europe, but almost all of them reached the Cairene Jewish community at some point before 1897. They are also among the least-studied Genizah fragments due to the fact that, for the last 125 years, almost all Genizah scholars have been medievalists and palaeographers. The goal of this article is to present colophons that show the variety of printed items that Cairene Jews had access to during the early modern period, as well as demonstrate the potential value of Genizah material as evidence in the history of Hebrew printing. It is further intended as a guide for Genizah scholars who may yet take interest in printed fragments.