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Or 14759

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Or 14759
Title:
Sefer Mafteaḥ Shelomoh
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Oriental Manuscripts
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
53 folios
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Languages:
Arabic
Greek, Ancient
Hebrew
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Hebrew
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
1600-1799
Era:
CE
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Hebrew Manuscripts Digitisation Project

Or 14759

Sefer Mafteaḥ Shelomoh

Contents

A Hebrew handbook of magic.

Language(s): Hebrew, Italian, la-Hebr, ar-Hebr, grc-Hebr

ff. 1r-53v
Title: Sefer Mafteaḥ Shelomoh
Title: ספר מפתח שלמה

Title on f. 1r added by a later hand: ספר חמשה חומשי תורה ס' הלבנה א' ספר המזלות א' ס' מפתחות שלמה עם חכמתו א' וספר הנסיונות אחד ואת המאור הגדול לממשלת היום והלילה.

Contains Latin, Greek, Arabic, and Italian words and passages in Hebrew transliteration.

Several lacunae: after f. 23 (according to the Hebrew foliation, two leaves are missing), Lacuna after f. 31 (according to Hebrew foliation, 15 leaves are missing), after f. 40 (according to Hebrew foliation, 1 leaf is missing).

With numerous diagrams and figurative illustrations. Most probably drawn by the scribe himself.

Filiation: Apparently a continuation of Or 6360. See also Or 10767.
Colophon:

Physical Description

Paper codex of the 17th-18th century.
Form: codex
Material: paper
Support: Paper with laid lines and chain lines; tre-lune watermark (e.g. ff. 10, 11).
Extent: 53 folios
Dimensions (leaf): 305 × 211 mm.
Dimensions (written): 230/240 × 135/150 mm.
Foliation:

Foliation in Arabic numerals in pencil.

Parallel Hebrew foliation in ink by the scribe.

F. 3r is blank.

Collation

Catchword on every verso.

Condition

Usage stains, worm damage, ink stains.

Layout

Columns:1

Ruling is visible (the outline of the text in pencil, the lines for the text in hard point).

Marginal notes; but some of these have been trimmed off by a later binder.

Hand(s)

Sefardi semi-cursive and square script of the 17th to 18th century.

Additions:

Scribbles on the front and the back pastedowns.

Binding

Brown leather binding, gold-tooled. In phase box.

History

Origin: 1600-1799 Around 1700 Netherlands (Amsterdam)

Provenance and Acquisition

Acquired in 1993.

Record Sources

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

Availability

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Surrogates

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Or_14759 (digital images currently unavailable)

Bibliography

    Rohtbacher-Sticker, Claudia, "Mafteah Shelomoh: A New Acquisition of the British Library", Jewish Studies Quarterly 1 (1993/94), pp. 263-270, esp. pp. 266-
    Rohtbacher-Sticker, Claudia, "A Hebrew Manuscript of Clavicula Salomonis, Part II", The British Library Journal 21 (1995), pp. 128-136 (https://www.bl.uk/eblj/1995articles/pdf/article9.pdf).
    Saar, Ortal-Paz, Jewish Love Magic: From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Leiden: Brill, 2017), p. 243 n40-41.
    Kohs, Michael, 'The Interplay of Images and Writing in Mafteaḥ Shelomoh: Two Experiments for Escaping from Prison', European Journal of Jewish Studies 11 (2017): 1-23.
    סופר, גל, "כתבי היד העבריים של מפתח שלמה ופרק על המאגיה של השבתאים", קבלה 32 (2014), עמ' 135-174; see esp. pp. 154-160.

Funding of Cataloguing

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