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Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.
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Mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers along with two diagrams. One diagram has a caption, stating that it protects a person against iron and …
Magical spell in Aramaic
REcto: colophon of non-magical text. written by Evyatar b. Tuvia. The text below reads: בתאריך יום צום אלצגיר קלת נעים למכין אבנהא יא מצרוב באלצט …
An amulet destined to silence the woman's opponents, particularly Abu al-Surur. The two people in question may perhaps be identified with a married couple mentioned …
Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise containing magical instructions (ʿazā'im) including for summoning Sar ha-Torah to grant your wishes and for ḍarb al-mandal ('prophesying while contemplating …
Interesting Arabic fragment with text arranged in a table, with many names of God invoked. Magical?
Eight lines of mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers. Likely but not definitively a join with CUL Or.1080 14.25.
Book of magical spells. In Hebrew. Some recipes attributed (erroneously) to Maimonides.
A Judaeo-Arabic magical spell of some kind, probably malevolent, for "binding" somebody. The female victim's name is meant to be filled in in lines 5/6. …
Magical instructions in Judaeo-Arabic, e.g. for getting pregnant or healing a scorpion sting.
Very faded, perhaps magical incantations? Mentions angels' names, demons, plague, quotes Song of Songs 8:7.
A very large magical fragment with copious Coptic text and scattered phrases in (poor) Greek. Thanks to Professor Maria Mavroudi for identifying the languages, and …
Magical recipes in two different hands, including for the protection of Yosef b. Me'ir. (Information from FGP)
An unusually neat and pristine amulet (possibly late, possibly never used) for the healing and protection of Eliyyahu b. Sarah.
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic magical work.
12 pages of a literary treatise, most or all of which is magical recipes.
Bifolium from a book of magical recipes in Judaeo-Arabic.
12 pages from a book of magic in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, also containing several line-and-stick illustrations.
Leaf of magical instructions.
4 pages containing permutations of YWHW with various vowels, and on the last page, God's 13 attributes along with a prayer designed for invoking any …
Fragment of a document with magic squares and magical recipes, including for mercantile success.
Several torn fragments, which seem to belong together, all containing magical instructions.
12 pages of magical instructions.
Bifolium of magical instructions.
Magical amulet, including a portion for binding the demon Ḥayimun.
Magical amulet.
Magical instructions.
Long fragment containing magical recipes.
Bifolium from a book of prognostications structured on the calendar and astronomical events, in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Amulet for success and against the evil eye, complete with calligraphic angel names, line-and-stick doodles, a star of David, and a magic square on verso.
Fragment of a striking amulet, partially colored in with green ink
Hebrew amulet formularies.
Long amulet for Simḥa bat Esther (suggesting late and perhaps Sephardic origin, since Simḥa was a man's name in the classical Geniza period), asking the …
Bifolium from a book of segulot.
Page with a magical spell for being loved and silencing enemies.
Fragment of an amulet in Judaeo-Arabic, probably for a certain Asaf b. Berakhya.
Perhaps an amulet: small, square piece of paper filled with calligraphic Judaeo-Arabic invocations of Gods' names and various prophets on both sides.
12 pages of a magical treatise, containing spells e.g. for eye pain or for seeing the dead in a dream.
Several fragments in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, all magical, one containing the line ". . . Sayyidnā Mūsā Rasūl Allāh al-Rasūl. . ."
Magical instructions in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Amulet in Hebrew and Aramaic (and Judaeo-Arabic as well?).
Late Hebrew amulet, with doodles and using the disappearing-word technique
Recto: The Book of Gathering the Winds. In Hebrew. See Goitein's index card for more information.
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Amulet against scorpions: same spell as the ones in T-S AS 143.26, except with two more magical names and no illustration. On verso there is …
Magical text in Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic. Mentions dream reading.
Formulary for a magical spell. Small fragment.
Magical formulary containing unusual curses on anyone pilfering a Torah scroll donated by a person on his death-bed. It contains the names of ten angels …
This codex was dedicated by Our Master Rabbi N son of N, may his share be with the seven classes of the righteous
on Paradise, and may his place…
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