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Libra Esoterica

Medical and magical compendium

by of Parma John

  • First published:
  • 16th century
  • Language: Hebrew
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, LJS 470. Siena, 1533. Collection of medical recipes, folk remedies, charms, and spells, including a Hebrew translation of John of Parma's medical treatise, Practicella. Diagrams and notes added by later hands at the beginning of the manuscript (f. 1v-3v). Penn Libraries Catalog: go to Find

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Charms” in the description, “Spells” in the description, and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Charms”· in description
    • “Spells”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Jewish magic”. Retained metadata contains “Jewish magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Jewish magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Jewish magic”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

One edition cataloged here.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1533-01-01T00:00:00Z—Hebrew—Public digitized item

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: University of Pennsylvania Libraries
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; openn
  • Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.9.5
  • Source-reported rights: Public Domain
Catalog id
internet-archive:ljs470
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