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[Treatise on amulets] : manuscript

Available Online: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rv0dj9x
Title: [Treatise on amulets] : manuscript
Name: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292
Publisher: [publisher not identified]
Date: 13XX
Collection: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)
Item Type: Text
Physical Format: books
Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete, fading ; folio 2r is empty
Language: Hebrew
Coverage: Early works to 1800
Note: Fol. 1r, under the heading פזמון, is Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia's kabbalic poem for Shavuot אשתעשע במש(א)ל קדמון, which ends in praise for Maimonides. See Steinschneider, Koṿets ʹal yad, sidrah 1, kerehh 1 (1885), p. 4, 15. Followed by Hebrew instructions for preparing a prescription for sorts of leprosy. Together they are 17 lines, the remainder of the page is empty., Fol. 1v contains various remedies in Judeo-Arabic., Fol. 2v contains a potion in Hebrew for a thin man or woman who wishes to be fat; remainder of the page is empty., Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew
Relation: Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rv0dj9x
Subject: Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204, Shavuot -- Liturgy -- Texts, Shavuot -- Liturgy, Weight gain, Leprosy -- Treatment, Leprosy, Jews -- Medicine, Amulets (Judaism), Jewish religious poetry, Hebrew, Amulets (Judaism) -- Early works to 1800, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800, Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine, Medieval, Jews -- Medicine -- Early works to 1800, Leprosy -- Treatment -- Early works to 1800, Weight gain -- Early works to 1800, Cabala, Philosophy, Medieval, in literature
Physical Location: Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 456
Provenance: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)., Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Bibnumber: 9940421323503681

IIIF manifest: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rv0dj9x/manifest

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS25653

Shelfmark:

Halper 456

Title:

Treatise on amulets

Amulet

Place:

Byzantium or Italy

Istanbul

TGN

Italy

TGN

Date:

14th century?

fourteenth century (dates CE) Linked Data indicator

AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic

Hebrew

WIKIDATA

Judeo-Arabic Linked Data indicator

WIKIDATA

Material:

complete, fading ; folio 2r is empty

Physical Description:

Extent: 2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete, fading ; folio 2r is empty

Note:

Fol. 1r, under the heading פזמון, is Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia's kabbalic poem for Shavuot אשתעשע במש(א)ל קדמון, which ends in praise for Maimonides. See Steinschneider, Koṿets ʹal yad, sidrah 1, kerehh 1 (1885), p. 4, 15. Followed by Hebrew instructions for preparing a prescription for sorts of leprosy. Together they are 17 lines, the remainder of the page is empty.
Fol. 1v contains various remedies in Judeo-Arabic.
Fol. 2v contains a potion in Hebrew for a thin man or woman who wishes to be fat; remainder of the page is empty.
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).

Keyword:

Texts

Early works

Leprosy--Treatment

Amulets (Judaism)

Medicine

Prescriptions, formulae, receipts, etc.

Medicine, Medieval

Weight gain

Jews--Medicine

Shavuot--Liturgy

Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions