A thousand year old seal from the Cairo Genizah

Описание: Cambridge’s Genizah Collections are a window on the medieval world, preserving a huge number of personal letters, legal deeds and other documents, alongside literary and sacred texts. Some, like the manuscript in this video, are incredibly fragile. Attached to the bottom of the document is a seal impression (bulla) in dried clay, from the hand of Nehemiah Gaon - head of one of the Iraqi Jewish academies (yeshivot). It’s unique, very crumbly, and never sees the light of day.