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Paraliterary textENA 2858.29
Magical text. Written in a mixture of Arabic script and Judaeo-Arabic.
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Literary textENA 2712.49
A leaf from a book of segulot in Ladino and Hebrew.
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Paraliterary textENA 3141.1
Magical text written in a striking melange of Hebrew script, Arabic script, and nonsense script. The main instructions are in Judaeo-Arabic. The practitioner is to …
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Paraliterary textBL OR 5565C.17
Recto: An amulet or talisman for protection, beginning with a chapter on charms and protections "bāb al-ḥirz l-aʿẓam". Verso: Magical recipe or charm involving an …
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Literary textAIU VIII.B.68
Page from a Hebrew paramedical treatise. One of the remaining sections is on the segulot/virtues of various parts of the hoopoe.
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Literary textAIU VI.C.5
Leaf from a magical treatise, including illustrations of Senoy, Sansenoy and Semangelof.
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Paraliterary textHalper 452
Prescriptions or recipes in Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic. "Instructions, mostly in Judeo-Arabic for preparations of different remedies. In the margin of the recto are instructions for …
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Paraliterary textJRL SERIES B 2892
A love spell/amulet for {Ḥayyim the son of ʿAzīza} and {Senyora the daughter of {Ashkenaz and {Sara the daughter of {Senyora and {Ḥayyim the son …
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Paraliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110c/2
Spell for protection while traveling. Very late. Verso is full of Yiddish text, probably related.
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Legal documentT-S 8J32.6
Moshe b. Levi ha-Levi agrees to bring to court a husband and his wife, the latter being accused of frightening another man's wife with practices …
- י]עתמד רבי משה בר מרנא לוי החזן אהוב
- הישיבה שצ אחצאר אלשיך הלאל בן אברהים
- נע ושריכה דאוד [ואמראתה וזוגתה] אלי בית
- דין מע כצמה אלשיך יעקוב ואן תאכר ע…
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Paraliterary textMoss. Ia,26.2
Magical text copied by Ibn Yiju, probably in Yemen around 1135. The text begins with a magical square (cf. sudoku) of which every line, row …
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- [הוציאה מ[מסגר נפשי להודות את שמיך בי יכתירו [צדיקים כי תגמול עלי]
- אחר לעינא בישתא בשם אל חולים ויסיר מן [פ'ב'פ'…
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List or tableT-S Misc.10.122
Recto: Accounts in Arabic. Verso: Formulary for a love spell in Judaeo-Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic.
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Paraliterary textT-S K1.115
A transliterated Latin prayer (borrowed from a Christian thief-catching ordeal), an Arabic version of a gnostic saying of Secundus the Silent Philosopher, a Hebrew praise …
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Paraliterary textT-S K12.89
Magical recipes for attaining love. "The first among these magical recipes is intended to ensure a great affection between a wife and her husband, erasing …
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LetterT-S NS J223
Note from Abū Thābit al-Ṣayrafī to a certain Rabbenu Shemuel asking him to declare a ban of excommunication against whoever cast a spell on someone …
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Paraliterary textENA 3903.2
Document in Arabic script. Two very narrow vertical strips filled with rudimentary Arabic script. Likely magical, but this is based entirely on appearance rather than …
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Paraliterary textENA 3926.6
Magical recipe written in Arabic and Hebrew. The Arabic script reads "ṣifa kāghaḍa (=kāghadh) saḥiḥa wa-hiya lā tataghayyar wa-taṣnaʿ minhā mā shiʾt" on verso. Recto: …
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Paraliterary textAIU VI.B.31
Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit Hutz." In …
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Paraliterary textAIU VI.C.9
Magical amulet, to be hung up it seems (scalloped top edge, like a plaque), with the formula "Senoy Sansenoy Semangelof Adam ve-Hava Lilit ḥuṣ." Same …
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Paraliterary textAIU VI.C.23
Kabbalistic menora surrounded by floral motifs composed of micrography. Visually arresting. Also massive: 51.5 x 37 cm and missing at least ⅓ from the top.
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Paraliterary textT-S NS 323.5
Amulet to make Yosef b. Amira (also known as Yosef b. Efrayim) return quickly to Fustat. The angels are called upon to not let him …
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Paraliterary textCUL Or.1080 14.19
Diagrams, text, and calculations of an astrological/astronomical nature, perhaps also magical. Arabic, late.
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Paraliterary textBodl. MS heb. c 28/14
Magical spells, 1 for arousing love (tahayyuj) and 1 for binding someone's tongue (ʿaqd lisān). Probably in the hand of Abū Sahl Levi (see tag). …
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Paraliterary textENA NS 36.17
Palimpsest. The earlier text is extremely faded; it is in Judaeo-Arabic and at least partially deals with recipes or prescriptions. The later text is also …
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Literary textAIU VIII.B.16
Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic. Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic paramedical treatise on the virtues of various kinds of animal substances. ¶ . . . grind it …
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Literary textAIU VIII.B.18
Medical treatise in Hebrew, 8 pages, with magical/astrological/demonic elements.
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Paraliterary textAIU XII.168
An amulet in quirky Arabic script. The main section is Quran 3:18.
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Paraliterary textT-S Ar.34.153
Occult text in Arabic script. Mentions the jinns, the shayāṭīn, al-waswās al-khannās (from Quran 114:4).
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Legal documentT-S K23.3.2
Ketubba, Palestinian, dated to the 10th or early 11th century. Reused for a magical text in Hebrew. Unusually, the later scribe also wrote over the …
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Paraliterary textT-S AS 162.51
Spell of destruction. In Judaeo-Arabic and Aramaic, with a postscript in Arabic script ("for killing, very useful"). See Niessen, F., & Bohak, G. (2007). ‘Destroy …
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Unknown typeX893.16 Se35
Notebook with diverse contents. Late. There are several pages of detailed accounts in Judaeo-Arabic, and at least two pages of magical spells in Judaeo-Persian. ASE.
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Paraliterary textT-S K1.140
Amulet to protect Maṣliaḥ ha-Kohen gaʾon b. Shelomo gaʾon (1127–39 CE), destroy his political enemies, and succeed before the government. (Information from CUDL)
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List or tableT-S 20.144
Accounts in Arabic script with names and numbers arranged in neat columns. Needs examination. The space around this document has been filled with Judaeo-Arabic text …
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Legal documentT-S K1.66
A magical deed of divorce (geṭ), from ʿImrān b. Mordekhay of Muʿizziyya (= New Cairo?) to Ḥabība bt. [...] followed by a spell to open …
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Paraliterary textJRL Gaster heb. ms 2110a/8
Two or three amulets containing remarkable illustrations: a demon with a tail, tutu, scepter, horns, and curly hair; a seated woman; and a man being …
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Paraliterary textT-S Ar.43.200
Recipes for effecting desired results with Psalms (shimmush tehillim).
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- בשם אל עולם שימוש תהילים
- אשרי האיש יוכתב גמיע אלמזמור
- עלי כזפה וידפן פי ברג חמאם
- ינפע למרה תסקט באדן אללה
- למה רגשו גויים
- יוכתב ויועלק עלי מן …
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Paraliterary textT-S K2.4
P1: f. 1r: description of a dream dated 525 AH (= 1130 CE); f. 1v: alchemical recipe called ‘the operation of mixture’; f. 2r: invocation …
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Legal documentT-S J3.23
Book of legal formularies and some literary text. Bifolium. The spaces remaining at the bottom of two of the pages are filled in with magical …
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Paraliterary textENA 3207.17
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. . …
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Paraliterary textENA 3982.36
Template fragment of a divination/magical charm starting with a few words of prayers followed by a spell: "fulān b. fulān". Then: 'blind his heart and …
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Literary textT-S 12.47 + T-S K25.162 + T-S AS 159.195 + T-S NS 224.176
Story of illicit love involving a woman named Hind and her husband, a man named Bishr and an old woman. Cf. H. T. Norris, "The …
T-S 12.47, recto:
- פמתא מא ראך ואנתי שאבה לא יצבר קלבהו ען אלשהוא
- . . רי מנה מא תחבין ולאכן סלי זוגיך מתא יכרג אלא ציעתה
- פאכברני פטאבת נפס הנד בכלאם …
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Paraliterary textAIU VII.A.31
Bifolium, probably from a literary compendium. Dating: Late, possibly 18th or 19th century. Two of the pages are a story about a female slave and …
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Paraliterary textYevr.-Arab. II 1727
Magical fragment. In Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic script. Dating: Unknown. It says Wednesday, 16 Adar 5005 AM, which is 1245 CE, but the scribe might have …
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LetterENA 2634.1 + ENA 2634.2
Letter from Mordekhai ha-Levi Mizraḥi, probably in Meron or Safed, to Moshe Ḥayyim and Yiṣḥaq Ḥayyim, unknown location. This fragment also contains the end of …
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LetterENA 2634.2 + ENA 2634.1
Letter from Mordekhai ha-Levi Mizraḥi, probably in Meron or Safed, to Agha Meir b. Eliyyahu, unknown location. The letter continues onto the upper part of …
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Paraliterary textT-S 10J22.6
Astrological instructions for a doctor regarding how to know the illness of a patient by using the constellation of the stars at the time of …
- בשמ רחמ
- הדא חסאב אלסאעאת אלז ואסאמיהא . .
- אולהא חמה והו אלשמס אדא גאך אלסאיל
- פי סאעה אלשמס פהו סעוד אן אוסיל ען
- מריץ פאעלם אן מרצה חמי וחר וכרב
- עלי …
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LetterENA 4020.49
Letter from Shelomo b. Eliyyahu to Abū l-Barakāt, the uncle of Sitt Ghazāl. He writes of the terrible sickness that has not relented ever since …
- אתה ייי לא תכלא ר[חמיך ממני [. . . . . . . . .
- אלממלוך אלאצגר שלמ[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
- אלדי אערף בה אלמולי אלסייד אלאגל אלתלמיד [. . . . …
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