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Samuel of Norwich in the marshlands of King’s Lynn: economic tribulations reconstructed from a newly discovered thirteenth-century Hebrew starr in Cambridge University Library*
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While the collection has been at Cambridge University Library (CUL), there has been an attempt to catalogue some of the estate records: lists exist of the manorial court records and the account books
While surveying the uncatalogued material, Sian Collins of CUL serendipitously came across a small Hebrew “starr”
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Samuel of Norwich in the marshlands of King’s Lynn: economic tribulations reconstructed from a newly discovered thirteenth century Hebrew starr in Cambridge University Library Judith Olszowy-Schlanger 1,* Sian Collins2,*. The discovery was made shortly after the publication of the facsimile edition of the known corpus of Hebrew legal deeds from medieval England by one of the authors of this paper (Judith Olszowy-Schlanger), as part of the series Monumenta Palaeographica Medii Aevi (MPMA).[2] The scholarly interest in Hebrew starrs dates back to the sixteenth century but systematic editing was undertaken only by Myer Davis on the occasion of the Anglo-Jewish exhibition in London in 1888.3 The 2015 MPMA edition updated and expanded the previous collection of documents from various archives by Myer Davis and other scholars, and included 259 charters on parchment and 57 wooden tallies. The fuller record is preserved in the Latin charter to which the starr is still firmly attached
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