Miscellany of mystical texts, 1900?-1920?
קובץ ספרי מיסטי

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Maʼamin, Shelomoh, scribe.

Jews' College (London, England). Library, former owner.

Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund .

בירדוגו, רפאל, 1747־1821.

מאמין, שלמה.

Standardized Title:

רזיאל המלאך. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85328704

Language:

Hebrew

Ladino

Subjects (All):

Jews.

History.

Judaism.

Morocco--Meknès.

Fate and fatalism--Religious aspects.

Fate and fatalism.

Cabala.

New moon--Religious aspects--Judaism.

New moon.

Mathematics.

Judaism--Morocco--Meknès--Customs and practices.

Jews--Morocco--Meknès--20th century--History--Sources.

Genre:

Sources.

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Cryptograms.

Monograms.

Tuǧras.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of Jews' College Library, London (Kestenbaum).

Sold by Kestenbaum & Company, Auction 53 (December 8, 2011) lot 308.

Physical Description:

1 item (57 leaves) : paper ; 245 x 192 (200 x 178) mm

Other Title:

מגיד מראשית.

גורלות לאחיתופל.

קביעת החודשים.

Place of Publication:

1900?-1920?

1900?-1920?.

Language Note:

In Hebrew; portions in Haketia (Ladino Occidental, a Western Judaeo-Spanish dialect, possibly with additional Ladino; for example, f. 29r-43r).

Summary:

This is a manuscript miscellany comprising mostly of mystical works originating in North Africa, likely in Morocco (possibly in Meknès); Magid me-reshit is a mystical system of predicting events based upon weather and astrological signs (with a postscript describing the teḳufot, the lunar calendar setting system; f. 1r-10v); Goralot le-Aḥitofel is a cabalistic game of lots by which a coordinate word is chosen from the goralot table (f. 11v) and the corresponding prediction foretells the future of the goral player (f. 10v-15r); Ḳeviʻat ha-ḥodshim is a work on predicting the monthly new moon (in Ladino; f. 15v-17r) followed by sections of Ḥidot, Teḳufot, and Ḥeshbonot (riddles, calendrical cycles, and mathematical exercises; f. 18r-43r); Minhagim (customs) of Meknès arranged by Refaʼel Berdugo (f. 43v-50v, and f. 56 from this work bound in later); a summary of the Book of Raziel (f. 52r-55v); more ciphers and magic (f. 57r-v). Written mostly in a Sephardic-Moroccan semicursive script, in the hand of Shelomoh Maʼamin (his signature in double-tuǧras at the opposing footings of f. 15r); Minhagim and subsequent portions written in different hands. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with blue-cloth spine; paper with horizontal ink rulings, likely for a business ledger.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Elis & Ruth Douer Term Fund .

Cited as:

UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 547.

Contains:

Berdugo, Refaʼel, 1747-1821. Minhagim (Meḳnes)

Book of Raziel.

Magid me-reshit.

Goralot le-Aḥitofel.

Ḳeviʻat ha-ḥodshim.

בירדוגו, רפאל, 1747־1821. מנהגים (מקנס)

רזיאל המלאך.

מגיד מראשית.

גורלות לאחיתופל.

קביעת החודשים.

OCLC:

1312935673