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Title

Treatise on amulets and practical Cabala :
ספר אודות קמיעות וקבלה מעשית

Call number

CAJS Rar Ms 698
(420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3703, University of Pennsylvania, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979356006703681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1422813074

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Hebrew, with some words in Judeo-Arabic

Origin

Date

1860?-1899?

Place

Egypt? Syria?

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

28 leaves : 22 x 21 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Jewish magic
• Jewish astrology
• Cabala
• Manuscripts, Judeo-Arabic--19th century--Specimens
• Jews--Egypt--19th century--History--Sources
• Jews--Syria--19th century--History--Sources

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Table of contents

• fol. 17r — Paleo-Hebrew characters for amulets

Decorations

• fol. 3r — Diagrams
• fol. 3v — Table
• fol. 5v — Table
• fol. 6r — Table
• fol. 6v — Table
• fol. 7r — Table
• fol. 7v — Table
• fol. 8r — Table
• fol. 8v — Diagram
• fol. 9v — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Diagram
• fol. 10r — Table
• fol. 10v — Diagram
• fol. 10v — Table
• fol. 14r — Angelic script illustrated in centered diagram
• fol. 14v — Astrological diagram displayed inside drawn table
• fol. 16r — Table
• fol. 22v — Diagram
• fol. 28v — Table