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Or 10329

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032-003393463

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Or 10329

Title:

Magical miscellany

Collection Area:

Oriental Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

40 folios (i+40+i)

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Languages:

Hebrew

Scripts:

Hebrew

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1899

Date Range:

1600-1899

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Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gaster, Moses, scholar, linguist and Hakham of the British Sephardic congregation, 1856-1939

TEI:

Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 10329

Magical miscellany

A collection of magical texts.

Language(s): Hebrew

Physical Description

Composite paper codex of the 17th-19th century.

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support:

Extent: 40 folios (i+40+i)

Binding

Post-1600 binding.

M. Gaster's label on spine: 'סגולות 728 296'.

History

Origin: 1600-1899 17th-19th century

Provenance and Acquisition

Moses Gaster (b. 1856, d. 1939), scholar and rabbi: his manuscript, Cod. G. 728; purchased by the British Museum from him on 12 April, 1924; date of accession 3 December 1929.

I

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 1r-14v

Title: סגלות וקמעות

Title: Segulot ṿe-ḳemeʿot

Incipit: עור של נחש

Ff. 1r-2v: on snake skin (עור של נחש); ff. 2v-3r: to catch a thief (לדעת הגנב שגנב); f. 3v: how to conjure up a dead to talk to him (להוציא מת מקברו לדבר עמו); f. 4v: to appear in front of rulers (ליכנס לפני שלטון או שר); ff. 5r-5v, 9r, 9v, 10r, 10v: love spells (לאהבה); f. 6v: spells on how to find buried treasuree (לגלות מטמון, להוציא מטמון ולדעת מקומו); f. 11v: לחרב, למצוא חן בעיני השר

F. 5v: לאהבה - קח עטלף נגד זריחת השמש ותמשח אותו בידך מראשו ועד זנבו בשמן וטול זכוכית חדה ושחטהו ותקבל מדמו בקליפת ביצה שנולדה בו ביום ויבש הדם עד היותו לאבק וגע בו לכל מי שתרצה.

Characters from cryptic alphabet(s) (e.g. ff. 10v and 12r).

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines.

Extent: 14 folios

Dimensions (leaf): 152 × 107 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Collation

Catchword on the verso sides.

Condition

Usage stains.

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance

II

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 15r-17r

Title: סגלות וצרופי שמות

Title: Segulot ṿe-tserufe shemot

Incipit: ... ואין לפעול בהם כי אם ב"ה לחדש המעלה ה"ג המעלה ה"ג

Explicit: בדרך זה יפטרו ממנו ואינו צריך דבר אחר - תם.

רק סופו של החבור

בין השאר מחולק לי"ב מעלות (השוה ס’ הרזים רקיע ב’)

Colophon:

ff. 17r-19r

Title: הספר שמשו בו כשרים בבחינתן ועיונם בחכמת האלהות

Title: Ha-Sefer shimhu bo ha-kesharim be-veḥinatan ṿe-iyunam ba-ḥokhmat ha-elohut

F. 17r: זה הספר שמשו בו הכשדים בבחינתם ועיונם בחכמת האלהות

Incomplete at the end.

Colophon:

ff. 19v-22v

Title: ספר רזיאל

Title: Sefer Raziʾel

Incipit: אהבתי וחבתי ותקרב מהלא אל מהלי כאהבת אדם וחוק...

"לכתוב יב שמות הממונים על הרפואה ר"ל קמע"

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, unidentified watermark (ff.18, 22).

Extent: 8 folios (ff. 15-22)

Dimensions (leaf): 150 × 100 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

A single quire of 6 leaves.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Sefardi cursive script of the 17th century.

History

Origin: 1600-1699 17th century

Provenance

III

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 23r-30r

Title: סגלות

Title: Segulot

Incipit: סגולה אמתית מי שרוצה לתום באשמורת

Explicit: וישים הביצה תחת מראשותיו

Incomplete at the end.

Gaster number 296 (inscribed on f. 23r).

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, tre-lune watermark (f. 23)

Extent: 8 folios (ff. 23-30)

Dimensions (leaf): 85 × 55 mm.

Dimensions (written): 63 × 40 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

A single quire of 8 leaves.

Catchword on some of the pages.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Yemenite Hebrew semi-cursive script of the 18th-19th century.

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

Gaster 296.

IV

Language(s): Judeo-Arabic

ff. 31r-31v

Title: Magical fragment

Explicit: שפתיה ושם אובוגה וצא בכה בגב... היא(?)

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Yellowish Oriental paper

Extent: 1 fragment of a folio

Dimensions (leaf): 140 × 110 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

The lower half of a paper leaf.

Condition

Usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Oriental Hebrew square script.

History

Origin: 1300-1499 14th-15th century?

Provenance

V

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 32r-35v

Title: סגלות וקמעות

Title: Segulot ṿe-ḳemeʿot

Incipit: בעלי"אל עזי"אל במ' ועוד שם מצאתי

F. 32r: אלו הנ' שמות של שלשה מלאכים שיוצאים מנ' פסוקים ... ואיני יודע לכוונו ומ"ב בסכי שג' מלאכים אלו שלח ... ... הראשונה היא לילית להשיבם אל אדם הראשון ומצאוה באיי הים ושאלה מאתם שיניחוה ונשבעה להם שבכל מקום שתמצא וקראה שמותם ותמונתם שלא תזיק לשום צרייה. ואלו שמותם ותמונתם: ; f. 32v: .

F. 32v: the images of the three angels and their names: סנוי / סוסיא - סנסנוי / סרגא - סמנגלף / סיסיא .

Ff. 33r-34r: spells related to giving birth, f. 34v: spell against illness, f. 35v: spell to cure someone with worms (רפואה מהתולעים).

Incomplete.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines, watermark: three hats(?) (f. 34).

Extent: 4 folios (ff. 32-35)

Dimensions (leaf): 107 × 80 mm.

Dimensions (written): 90 × 58 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part.

Collation

A single quire of 4 leaves.

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Italian Hebrew cursive and square script of the 18th century.

History

Origin: 1700-1799 18th century

VI

Language(s): Hebrew

ff. 36r-40v

Title: סגלות, קמעות ולחשים

Title: Segulot, ḳemeʿot ṿe-laḥashim

Incantations and magical recipes by various hands.

Colophon:

Physical Description

Form: codex

Material: paper

Support: Five leaves from various manuscripts, all paper.

Extent: 5 folios (ff. 36-40)

Dimensions (leaf): 107 × 80 mm.

Dimensions (written): 90 × 58 mm.

Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil; continuous with previous part. F. 36v is blank.

Collation

Leaves on guards.

Condition

Water damage, usage stains, iron gall ink corrosion.

F. 38 has been repaired.

Layout

Columns:1

Hand(s)

Various Hebrew scripts.

Ff. 36r, 37r and 37v.: Italian Hebrew cursive and quare scripts.

Ff. 38r, 38v: Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script.

Ff. 39r, 39v: Oriental Hebrew square script.

Ff. 40r, 40v: Oriental Hebrew semi-cursive script.

Decoration

Illustrations in ink on f. 32v.

Additions:

Accompanying Material

History

Origin: 1700-1899 18th-19th century

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Manuscript description based on the online catalogue of the National Library of Israel.

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Or 10329

Magical miscellany

Contents

A collection of magical texts.

Physical Description

Binding

History

Provenance and Acquisition

I

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Hand(s)

History

Provenance

II

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

History

Provenance

III

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

History

Provenance

IV

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

History

Provenance

V

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

History

VI

Contents

Physical Description

Collation

Condition

Layout

Hand(s)

Decoration

Accompanying Material

History

Provenance

Additional Information

Record Sources

Availability

Surrogates

Bibliography

Funding of Cataloguing