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Astrological prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic. Dated: 1414 Seleucid, which is 1102/03 CE. Many colorful details about war, weather, and diseases (e.g., ramad/ophthalmia).
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Horoscopes. In Judaeo-Arabic.
Divination. Grid in red ink filled with various outcomes. In Hebrew.
Table of Judaeo-Arabic prognostications or horoscopes for various domains (agriculture, prosperity, government, knowledge, etc.) arranged in an ornate red grid. Late hand.
Table of Judaeo-Arabic prognostications in a rough black grid. Possibly medieval.
Text in Judaeo-Arabic informing someone about their livelihood. Perhaps prognostications/horoscopes.
Recto: Elaborate grid in red and black ink, each cell filled in with a Hebrew letter, except for three, which contain a nickname: "known as …
Leaf of prognostications based on the timing of earthquakes.
Leaf from a treatise on divination in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks pre-1500 (unlike most of the material in the AIU collection).
Interesting grids with Judaeo-Arabic writing, presumably for casting lots.
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic literary work, possibly on predicting the future, mentioning various hours of the day, various outcomes, and perhaps the names of angels.
Tables for divination, late, entitled Urim ve-Tumim, each headed with a different question (e.g. "boy or girl?" "is this man trustworthy or not?").
Booklet of alphabetical tables for prognostications in Arabic script. "Travel by sea: effective or not?" "Should I buy animals: good or not?" The last page …
Horoscopes in Hebrew, with marginal notes in Judaeo-Arabic. One is headed "dukhifat" (hoopoe).
Divination. In Judaeo-Arabic. Different responses to the client's query are tagged to different numbers. The scribe has a very distinctive hand and downsloping lines. Joins: …
Leaf from a Judaeo-Arabic treatise on prognostication or horoscopes.
Prognostications for the coming year in Judaeo-Arabic.
26 pages from a book on divination based on biblical verses.
A leaf giving methods for predicting the future/answers to various questions (how you will escape from an enemy. . . whether the rumor is true …
8 pages of grids filled with Hebrew letters, presumably for casting lots.
Literary text. In Arabic script. Leaf from an Arabic work on horoscopes/prognostications in a beautiful naskhī script. The horoscopes/prognostications are predicted for each day of …
Fragment, text on prognostications. Each prediction starts with a new point (al-bāb). Contains some Hebrew script interspersed. Verso conatins a note saying that this paper …
Astrological predictions regarding the occurrence of diseases and shortage of food. In Judaeo-Arabic. (Information from CUDL.)
"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 …
Forecasts based on the day of the week something falls on. Uses the Coptic calendar. Every entry ends "wallāhu aʿlam." Distinguishes between the forecast for …
Leaf 1: end of a discussion of the cycles of each planet and their astrological importance, followed by a description of each of the planets. …
2 bifolia (8 pages), each containing a table corresponding to one of the stones of the Urim ve-Tumim, each one intended to be used for …
Fragment in Arabic script. Astrological/esoteric. Listing the auspicious and inauspicious properties of every day of the month, e.g., which days are good for going before …
Horoscopes in the name of Ilyās al-Ḥakīm, including prospects for currying favor with government and the effectiveness of medicines. On reused paper containing vestiges of …
The second block of text appears to be a prophecy attributed to Ibn Ezra regarding a Messiah in the land of Egypt, mentioning the year …
Tables for divination or magic, e.g. giving the names of the angels of different lands. Judaeo-Arabic, late hand.
Two pages from an Arabic work on prognostications, including whether the days of a month or lucky or unlucky.
Interesting fragment of a grid containing prognostications in Judaeo-Arabic with interspersed Arabic for various questions. E.g., "This man swore falsely" or "This woman will become …
Fragment of a Judaeo-Arabic work on the seasons and weather and prognostications.
26 pages of a Ladino & Hebrew manual on divination, using astrology and geomancy and perhaps some casting of lots (see pp. 21–22, where there …
A curious late fragment in an uneven scribal hand and imperfect Hebrew. "I heard from the Rav Yeḥiel Adhan, from the inhabitants of Sale, that …
Arabic booklet on astrological prognostications.
Forecasts. In Ladino. Foretelling the fortunes of the coming year based on the day of the week of the Copts' Feast of the Cross (ʿīd …
Document in Arabic script, probably legal. Approximately 7 lines from the middle section are preserved. Mentions ḍamān and daʿwa, and maybe a partnership (shirka). Needs …
Description of disasters, famines and frightful events due to happen in each of the Jewish months, mentioning the Jews and their slavery, the Arabs and …
Predictions of events that will happen if the tequfot of Tishri and Nisan occur in particular hours of the day or night, in the form …
Recto: Two lines in Arabic script, probably a petition to a Fatimid vizier "mawlāy al-wazīr al-ajall ṣafiyy amīr al-muʾminīn wa-khāliṣatuh." In Judaeo-Arabic, between the lines …
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