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[Treatise on amulets]

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  • First published:
  • 13th century
  • Language: Hebrew
  • Content type: Primary source
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Traditions: Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

Subjects: Early works to 1800, Medicine, Cabala, Texts, Jews, Formulae, receipts, prescriptions, Medicine, Medieval, Liturgy

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  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Cabala”. Retained metadata contains “Cabala” in the subject metadata.

    • “Cabala”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Cabala”· in subject

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University of Pennsylvania digitized edition

2 fols. (bifolium: recto=1r|2v; verso=2r|1v): complete, fading ; folio 2r is empty; Fol. 1r, under the heading פזמון, is Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia's kabbalic poem for Shavuot אשתעשע במש(א)ל קדמון, which ends in praise for Maimonides. See Steinschneider, Koṿets ʹal yad, sidrah 1, kerehh 1 (1885), p. 4, 15. Followed by Hebrew instructions for preparing a prescription for sorts of leprosy. Together they are 17 lines, the remainder of the page is empty.; Fol. 1v contains various remedies in Judeo-Arabic.; Fol. 2v contains a potion in Hebrew for a thin man or woman who wishes to be fat; remainder of the page is empty.; Forms part of: Cairo Genizah Collection.; Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Hebrew; Related Work: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-approximately 1292. Pizmon.

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library)
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9940421323503681
  • Physical location: Library at the Katz Center, Genizah Fragments, Halper 456
  • Provenance: Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).; Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Libraries).
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
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