Paraliterary text: L-G Misc. 117

Paraliterary text L-G Misc. 117

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Shelfmark
L-G Misc. 117
Primary Language
Hebrew

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Leaf from a collection of magical spells and recipes, in Hebrew, copied in a 16th-century hand. One recipe aims to cause a woman to fall into a state of sexual desire. ‘Take your trousers and put them on over your head, so that you are naked. Say: “So-and-so son of So-and-so is doing this for So-and-so daughter of So-and-so, in order that she will dream that I sleep [with] her and she sleeps with me”.’ (Information from CUDL.)

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Collection
Bodleian Library and Cambridge University Library (jointly owned) , Lewis-Gibson
Historical shelfmarks
West. Coll. (Westminster College), Frag. Cairens., f. 117; West. Coll. (Westminster College), Frag. Cairens., fol. 117
Input date
In PGP since 2021
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Translation

L-G Misc. 117 1r

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1r

L-G Misc. 117 1v

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1v
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Bodleian Library and Cambridge University Library (jointly owned) , Lewis-Gibson, L-G Misc. 117. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/35026/ (accessed June 7, 2026).