A fundraising appeal by Oxford and Cambridge universities to buy a collection of 1,000-year-old Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts has been successful.
The universities raised £1.2m to buy The Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection from the United Reform Church’s Westminster College.
The collection is made up of 1,700 document fragments saved from Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue.
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