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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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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 …
12 pages of a magical treatise, containing spells e.g. for eye pain or for seeing the dead in a dream.
12 pages of a literary treatise, most or all of which is magical recipes.
Fragment of a document with magic squares and magical recipes, including for mercantile success.
Several fragments in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, all magical, one containing the line ". . . Sayyidnā Mūsā Rasūl Allāh al-Rasūl. . ."
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 instructions in Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic.
Leaf of magical instructions.
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.
Lots of magic squares of all different sizes, using both Arabic and Hebrew letters. There is some text, too, which is either very difficult to …
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic magical work.
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.
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.
Amulet in Hebrew and Aramaic (and Judaeo-Arabic as well?).
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.
Late Hebrew amulet, with doodles and using the disappearing-word technique
Long, elaborate amulet for Sāda bt. Samar. Parchment, written on hair side; flesh side is blank.
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 …
Interesting Arabic fragment with text arranged in a table, with many names of God invoked. Magical?
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 …
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 …
An unusually neat and pristine amulet (possibly late, possibly never used) for the healing and protection of Eliyyahu b. Sarah.
Magical instructions and diagrams in Judaeo-Arabic.
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 …
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. …
Book of magical spells. In Hebrew. Some recipes attributed (erroneously) to Maimonides.
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.
Eight lines of mysterious strings of Arabic letters and numbers. Likely but not definitively a join with CUL Or.1080 14.25.
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 recipes in two different hands, including for the protection of Yosef b. Me'ir. (Information from FGP)
Spell book in Judaeo-Arabic.
Recto: The Book of Gathering the Winds. In Hebrew. See Goitein's index card for more information.
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Letter fragment in Judaeo-Arabic. Mentions the physician (al-ḥakīm) Abū l-Barakāt and two books containing 'accursed' magic (al-siḥr al-mayshūm). The sender greets his or her brother …
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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 …
Formulary for a magical spell. Small fragment.