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View document detailsLiterary textAIU VI.B.180
Bifolium from a book of magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic.
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View document detailsLiterary textAIU VI.B.181
12 pages from a book of magic in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, also containing several line-and-stick illustrations.
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View document detailsParaliterary textAIU V.A.68
Perhaps an amulet: small, square piece of paper filled with calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic invocations of Gods' names and various prophets on both sides.
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View document detailsLegal documentAIU XII.81
Statement in Arabic script ("aqūlu wa-anā...") made and signed by Hiba b. Mufaḍḍal al-Mutaṭabbib. Dated: 18 Shawwāl 628 AH = 19 August 1231 CE. It …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.44.198
Booklet of divinations with introduction. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
- הדא כתאב גליל יערף מנה אלטאלע
- בגיר חסאב ולא תעב בסר עטים
- מרתב בעלאמאת תטהר עגאיבה
- פאדא גאך אנסאן סאלך ען צמיר
- אצמר פי קלבה ליטהר סרה וחאלה
- קול לה אצ…
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.46.137
Literary text in Judaeo-Arabic. Advice on how to succeed against enemies, on a journey, etc. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
- ירידו. גמך ומתלך מ/ת/ל באב מגלוק ואלנגאר
- קאעד יצלחה ואנת תרי אנך רגל באזל ולאכן
- אחדר אעדאך לאנהם אקוא מנך ואדעו אללה
- יכפיך מונתהם ויכלצך מן כל שרהם …
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View document detailsParaliterary textL-G Misc. 16 + T-S NS 322.73
Four columns of a Hebrew magical text about knowing the future. After fasting and cleansing the body, one should go to a field, pronounce some …
- שאמרו שם טהרה שם טומאה
- חס ושלום שיהיה בעולם שם טומאה
- אלא הכינוי כך הוא שם בטהרה ושם
- בטומאה שכן יזהר בכל מקום
- עשה בטהרה ותצלח והם ארבעה
- כנויות באמת ה…
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108
Paraliterary textENA 3682.7
Recto: Magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic. Verso: A page of magical letters encompassed by an ouroboros. (Information in part from Goitein's index card)
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View document detailsParaliterary textF 1908.44X
Amulet in Aramaic and Hebrew against various afflictions, such as "scare-crows of the night, afflictions, fever, ague, fear of evil, the voice, the crushing of …
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Paraliterary textT-S Ar.51.62
Folios 1v-2v (the fragment is conserved the wrong way round) contain Suras 1 and 2:1-10 from the Qur’an in Hebrew script, followed by omens for …
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Paraliterary textT-S K1.20
Recipe for an amulet, beginning with 6 word-triangles based on angel names (תקפיאל, רחמיאל, etc), followed by (in Aramaic) 'You holy names... Heal NN (1b)... …
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Paraliterary textENA 3956.2
Magical fragment. In Arabic script. Including epithets of God (Ḥayy, Qayyūm, Dā'im, Dayyūm, Huwa Huwa) and Quranic verses (idhā qaḍā amran innamā yaqūlu lahu kūn(!) …
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Paraliterary textENA NS 38.28
Magical fragment. In Arabic script, with pious Islamic phrases (incl. lā ḥawla wa-lā quwwa illā billāhi al-ʿaliyy al-ʿaẓīm). With stars of David.
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Literary textENA 2757.3
Magical spells. One folio from a larger booklet. In Arabic script. Possibly for arousing love (tahyīj al-ḥubb?). One of them is to be placed inside …
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View document detailsParaliterary textCUL Or.1081 1.27
Instructions for some sort of magical procedure. "Take seven pebbles, throw one in each of the four cardinal directions, and three will remain with you. …
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Paraliterary textT-S 6J3.9
Fragment from the Babylonian Jewish magical text Pišra de-Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa. (Information from CUDL.)
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.21.109
Bifolium. One folio is a Judaeo-Arabic translation of Exodus 21:1-17, 27:20-28. The other folio is magical instructions in Arabic script. The first few lines of …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.30.124
Formulary for a love spell (ʿazīma) in Judaeo-Arabic.
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.30.51
List of the names of the masters of wind, rain, and fire who have dominion in the four seasons of the year, presumably useful for …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.30.91
Recto: astrology, mentioning ṣāḥib al-ṭāliʿ several times. Verso: a continuation of recto, transitioning into a formulary for a spell of some kind that involves burying …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S NS 226.175
Formularies for curses.
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.7.36
Esoteric text in Judaeo-Arabic. May be magical ( "indeed you will be able to do whatever you wish to Khalaf b. Moshe") and/or for treasure-hunting …
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 145.71 + T-S Ar.30.81
Two interesting spells for binding demons to obey you. The handwriting is similar to that of the cantor Abu Sahl (Levi), father of Yedutun and …
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 147.146
Magic Recipes (fgp)
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Paraliterary textMoss. I,74.1
Two magical incantations against the evil eye. On the other three pages of the bifolium is a list of Torah and Prophets readings.
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View document detailsLegal documentMoss. III,79.2
Ketubba fragment, with a lovely decoration in the header. The groom's father is named Shelomo. On verso there are magical remedies/incantations, including one against polyuria.
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S NS 324.59
Magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic (with some Arabic script and magical symbols). One recipe is for nosebleed and involves writing a spell with the blood on …
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View document detailsLiterary textT-S NS 322.73 + L-G Misc. 16
Introduction to a work on magic/telling the future, probably in the hand of Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi, probably a join with L-G Misc. 16.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/3
Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/4
Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/5
Amulet. Very late.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/6
Spells. Very late.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/7
Amulets. Very late. Funky illustrations.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/8
Amulet in purple and yellow ink. Very late. Ashkenazi hand.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/9
Spells. Very late.
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View document detailsParaliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/10
Recipes. In Hebrew. A mixture of magical spells, many medical, combined with domestic advice, e.g., how to remove urine stains. This fragment may be older …
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Paraliterary textENA 2713.43
Love spell in Judaeo-Arabic. For Esther bt. Nazlī to fall in love with Ḥayyim b. Barda. The hand looks late and possibly Iraqi—but that is …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S AS 204.318
Magical fragment in Arabic script. It seems for ḍarabān (throbbing) of something.
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Unknown typeENA NS 63.10
Document in unconnected Arabic script interspersed with cryptic symbols. Only the first few characters of each line are preserved. Perhaps magical. The fragment was reused …
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Paraliterary textENA NS 7.37
Formularies for a love (maḥabba) spell and a love (tahayyuj) potion (using סבנאדג, the brain of a colored pigeon, and some of your urine).
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S NS 107.3
Magical fragment containing elaborate and vehement curses.
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S Ar.34.268
Magical instructions, probably. Involving sex with a woman (fulāna bt. fulāna, ll.5–6). Needs further examination.
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View document detailsParaliterary textENA NS 15.15
Magical fragment in Hebrew and Aramaic calling down eternal fire.*
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View document detailsLiterary textCUL Or.1081 1.30
"The chapter of knowing the unknown (taʿallum al-ghayb)." One takes a certain animal on Shabbat, breaks open its back, and eats its heart while still …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S K24.24
Magical fragment, perhaps. Unidentified alphabet or cipher.
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View document detailsParaliterary textNLI 577.1/63
Prayer or magical fragment in Arabic script. Invokes Muḥammad and then has a string of magical characters. The lower fragment looks literary.
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Paraliterary textJRL SERIES A 643
Exorcism. In Hebrew. Late. The spirit of Nissim b. Bunya is commanded to leave the body of Qamr bt. Ruḥama, and it is decreed that …
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Paraliterary textJRL SERIES B 5682
The scorpion amulet attributed to Yehuda b. Yeḥezqel. Belongs with ENA NS 73.12 and T-S AS 143.26.
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S K24.19
Magical spell in Hebrew, written in a cipher. Khatun the daughter of Qatzur adjures the jinn in her house to tell her where the gold …
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View document detailsParaliterary textT-S K24.23
Aggressive and erotic magical spells. Formulary. In Judaeo-Arabic, written in part with a cipher. Information from FGP
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