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For your #fragmentfriday (tho’ I‘m vaguely aware it’s Sunday): a long vertical scroll (rotulus) from the #cairogeniza with an equally long social history. A winding thread: I’ll tell the story backwards, pts. 1-7 are modern, pts. 8-23 medieval: 
1/This fragment comes from the Lewis-Gibson collection, now owned by Oxford and Cambridge. They jointly acquired these 1700 mss in a model of cooperation under the leadership of @richove of @bodleianlibs and @annejarvispul of @theUL (now of @PULibrary). bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2013/hist…
2/Oxbridge acquired the Lewis-Gibson fragments from Westminster College, a Presbyterian seminary (now United Reformed) whose land, and whose geniza fragments, they received as a donation from Agnes Lewis and Margaret Gibson (both b. 1843; they were twins).
