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Title

Astrological tables and digest of angels.
טבלאות אסטרולוגיות וסודות המלאכים

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 695
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977686253503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1422540280
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/1229047 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xw48z2p

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, with some names in Aramaic; Arabic (possibly in a later hand; f. 8r)

Origin

Date

1880?-1920?

Place

Yemen?

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

32 leaves : 35 x 29 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 70 (31 March 2020) item 261.
   

Subjects topical

• Cabala
• Jewish astrology
• Zodiac

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• Horoscopes
• Manuscripts, Hebrew--19th century
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--19th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Commentary on the Nogah
• fol. 3r — Material of Samael and Tuesday
• fol. 3v — Tables of gematria
• fol. 3v — Material of Samael and Tuesday
• fol. 4v — Tables of gematria
• fol. 10r — Practical cabala and divination instruction
• fol. 11v — Astrological commentary

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Chart on the Nogah, drawn to be copied for use of relations with women
• fol. 2r — Topic of ל"ב נתיבות החכמה with a Sefirotic circle chart for the days of the week