Paraliterary text: ENA 3207.17

Paraliterary text ENA 3207.17

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Shelfmark
ENA 3207.17
Primary Languages
Arabic
Judaeo-Arabic

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Description

Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script and magical script. Including a birth control recipe: "If you want a woman not to become pregnant. . ." Contains some Arabic words inserted into Hebrew script; 'law taʿllaq ʿalā', muʿallaq ʿalaihā, muʿallaq. The bottom half of the recto contains 6 lines in what looks like code or a cipher with some symbols that look like Arabic letters. Possibly a talisman or incantation. Verso contains lines of Hebrew script and a box bisected by two lines with Hebrew script inside and on the outside.

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Collection
Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA 3207, f. 17; ENA 3207, fol. 17
Input date
In PGP since 2017
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Translation

ENA 3207.17 recto

recto

ENA 3207.17 verso

verso
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Jewish Theological Seminary Library, ENA 3207.17. Available online through the Princeton Geniza Project at https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/10130/, accessed February 17, 2025.
https://geniza.princeton.edu/documents/10130/