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Type: Literary text
1840 records found
Bifolium of magical recipes for diverse problems, many medical. E.g., against fever: recite Psalm 34 over olive oil and anoint yourself ("effective if God wills").
Folktales of King Solomon and his wisdom and Ashmoday/Asmodeus.
Leaf from a treatise on divination in Judaeo-Arabic. The hand looks pre-1500 (unlike most of the material in the AIU collection).
Bifolium of Judaeo-Arabic poetry. Shows signs of having been bound into a book cover (glue stains, leather).
Leaf of prognostications based on the timing of earthquakes.
12 pages of a magical treatise, containing spells e.g. for eye pain or for seeing the dead in a dream.
Writing exercises based on the first section of the book of Proverbs in Judaeo-Arabic translation.
Page 1: Medical treatise in Judaeo-Arabic giving two prescriptions for pediatric ophthalmia (ramad), the second of which is prefaced, "The doctors in Fusṭāṭ use this. . . " Pages 2–4: Calligraphic and vocalized verses, mostly or all from Psalms.
Recto: Love spells in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Verso: An Aramaic prayer and geomancy markings.
Bifolium from a Hebrew philosophical work extremely similar to, but apparently not identical with, the Guide for the Perplexed. Perhaps a commentary? It compares the visions of Isaiah and Ezekiel (as Maimonides does toward the beginning of Part III), says it will impart only chapter headings, discusses metaphor in the Bible, such as the term "kiss" (as Maimonides does as well).
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 decipher or magical nonsense.
A bizarre treatise entitled Mar'e Ha-Ofanim, referring both to the angels of Ezekiel's vision and to the circles described in the treatise. It gives instructions for drawing up sundry circles within circles with magical or divinatory properties. In this section, each entry is prefaced with the name of a category (e.g. "meals" or "Gentile sages") and two rivers (one "outside" and one "inside"), and then the entry consists of specific elements from that category paired with a biblical prophet and the number of a verse ("Bread, go to Ezekiel verse 1"; "Bartholomeo, go to Elisha verse 25"; etc.). Each entry concludes with a list of significant numbers.
A page of instructions for harming an enemy through magical/kabbalistic means, including with the 72-letter name of God.
Bifolium from a Judaeo-Arabic magical work.
12 pages of a literary treatise, most or all of which is magical recipes.
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.
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 or not. . .).
Several fragments in both Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic, all magical, one containing the line ". . . Sayyidnā Mūsā Rasūl Allāh al-Rasūl. . ."
