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Title:
ʿEts ha-daʿat by Elishaʿ ben Gad Anḳonah
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49 folios (i+49+ii)
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1535
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1536
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1535-1536
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Names:
Anḳonah, Elishaʿ ben Gad
Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939
Salomon Michel
אנקונה, אלישע בן גד
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Or 12362

ʿEts ha-daʿat by Elishaʿ ben Gad Anḳonah

Contents

A collection of 125 ḳemiʿot

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 2r-48r
Author: אנקונה, אלישע בן גד Anḳonah, Elishaʿ ben Gad
Title: עץ הדעת
Title: ʿEts ha-daʿat

Title page on f. 2r: עץ הדעת אשר פירותיו מתוקים דברים שהם כבושינו של עולם וכזבב מזיקקים תוציאם להאי על הארץ הגאון כמהר"ר אלישע מאנקונה בשנת פרי"ו יתן בעתו לפרט האלף הששי בעיר הקדש צפת תובב א'.

Author mentions his journeys, for instance "I travelled from Venice" (מויניציאה נסעתי (f. 4r).

Ff. 5r-10v: index.

Cryptic alphabet on f. 18v: אלף בית של מטטרון שר הפנים.

According to the introduction, written by the author, the text is a compilation of charms, an amulet, and invocations (השבעות). F. 3v, lines 5-6: it says that the author learned about these from Yehudah Elkabetz (יהודה אלקבץ).

F. 43v, siman 109: Mentions "that is what I was told, and what I heard, from Leon of Ustiliah (זה הוגד לי ושמעתי ממי’ ליאון דאוסטילה); f. 45r, siman 116: charms made of snakeskin from Shelomoh ha-Rofe of Toledo (סגולות מעור הנחש דברי שלמה הרופא מטוליטול).

Autograph?

Filiation:

Cf. Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Oppenheimer Add. 8° 73.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 16th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.
Extent: 49 folios (i+49+ii)
Dimensions (leaf): 138 × 87 mm.
Dimensions (written): 90 × 53 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Two unfoliated blank leaves after f. 48.

Collation

No catchwords.

Condition

Usage stains, liquid damage.

Remains of some food(?) between ff. 13 and 14.

Burnt hole on f. 17.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruled lines: 22

Written lines: 22

Uniform layout.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew semi-cursive and square script of the 16th century.

Decoration

Decorated title page.

Ornamental initial-word panels, pen and ink.

Ornamental tail pieces, pen and ink.

Additions:

Binding

Post-1600 binding. Original parchment binding is included into the collation (f. 1 and back flyleaf (i)).

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1535-1536 Israel (Safed)

Provenance and Acquisition

Ownership inscription in Italian on f. 49v: 'Libro di me Salomon Michel Delle...'

Ownership inscription in Hebrew on f. 49v: 'לעולם יכתוב אדם שמו על ספרו שמא אחד מן השוק יבא ליאמר זה הספר שלי וכך כתבתי שמי ｢יהונתן ש...｣ יצ"ו ... חזק ונתחזק '

Hebrew note on f. 1v.

Old catalogue numbers on f. 1v: 'No. 88'.

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 38(?); purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 14 July 1927.

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel and the Catalogue of Hebrew Manuscripts in the Gaster Collection, the British Library, London; preface by Brad Sabin Hill; reproduced from the MS and typescript blue-slips prepared by Jacob Leeven, Joseph Rosenwasser and David Goldstein (London: Hebrew Section. Oriental and India Office Collection, 1996) (unpublished copy is available in the AAS reading room).

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_12362 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Saar, Ortal-Paz, Jewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 100 n39, 110, 113 n70, 133.

Funding of Cataloguing

BL