[Collection of amulets, charms, remedies, and magic bowls]; [קמעות, קמעות, תרופות וקערות קסם]
Timespan:
18th century
Date:
1700
Language:
Hebrew; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE)
Provenance:
Formerly owned by Tel Aviv collector William L. Gross (Kedem); former call number The Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, OT.011.021.; Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 93 part 1, lot 80 (as part of selections from the Gross Family Collection).; Gross, William L., former owner.
Publisher:
[1700-1799]
Relation:
The Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047
105 leaves : paper, illustrations; 170 x 130 mm bound to 180 x 145 mm.
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.; Ms. composite codex.; Hebrew and Aramaic (many amulets and texts of incantations in Aramaic).; Title supplied by cataloger.; Layout: Written in single columns, with captions above column; illustrations built-in to text column (such as f. 76r); mantras written in three tapered columns (f. 105v); some catchwords, some blind-ruling.; Script: Written in Turkish cursive and semicursive scripts, in multiple hands; some amuletic and incantations vocalized (such as f. 98v).; Decoration: Magic bowl illustration (f. 21r), illustrations of amulets (such as f. 29v, f. 98v), pseudo-scripts, goralot tables (such as f. 60r, f. 55r), olivewood talismans (f. 29v).; Origin: Written in Turkey during the 18th century (original manuscripts), possibly bound as two composite manuscripts (based on older foliation), circa 1800.
Physical Location:
Library at the Katz Center, Rare Book Manuscripts, CAJS Rar Ms 658
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