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Medicine man's pocket notebook, circa 1700-1850

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  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Language: Sanskrit
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Description

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Manuscript is small pocket notebook by a sei-saya (medicine man). It contains spells using mantras (words and phrases of power); inn (cabalistic squares and figures) associated with the occult sciences to protect against vulnerability from evil spirits, firearms, and weapons; riddles and formulas concerning alchemy; and calculations for directions of the head of a serpent (naga) by astrology so that one could avoid aliments and catastrophic accidents. Contains remedies from plants and astrological calculations for healing. There are drawings of figures and animals, tables, and diagrams throughout.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Astrology, Occultism and esotericism, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Retained metadata contains “occult” in the description and “Occult sciences” in the description.

    • “occult”· in description
    • “Occult sciences”· in description
  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Spells” in the description and “Magic” in the subject metadata.

    • “Magic”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Spells”· in description
    • “Magic”· in subject
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the description.

    • “Alchemy”· in description
  • Astrology

    Retained metadata contains “astrological” in the description and “Astrology” in the description.

    • “astrological”· in description
    • “Astrology”· in description

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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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

1 item (21 leaves) : paper ; 33 x 51 cm; 21 leaves.; Formerly housed as Ms. Coll. 390, Item 2967.; In Sanskrit (Devanāgarī); Manuscript was folded six to eight times to create a portable pocket notebook.; Mistakes blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins.; Title supplied by cataloger.

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  • ark:/81431/p3dz03g3b

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Collection of Southeast Asian Manuscripts
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9976890483503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 990 Item 19
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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