Raphael Isaiah Azulai miscellany of practical cabala : manuscript.
רפאל ישעיה אזולאי כתב-יד של קבלה מעשית.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Azulai, Raphael Isaiah, approximately 1745-1826, author, former owner, scribe.

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

Language:

Aramaic

Hebrew

Italian

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Tetragrammaton.

Medicine--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Medicine.

Rabbis--Italy--Ancona--19th century--History--Sources.

Rabbis.

Jews--Italy--Ancona--19th century--History--Sources.

Jews.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, European.

Formularies (Medicine)

Manuscripts.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 70 (31 March 2020) lot 259.

Physical Description:

36 leaves : paper ; 20 x 16 cm or smaller.

Production:

Ancona, [before 1824].

[אנקונה], [לפני 1824].

Language Note:

Hebrew, with certain lines written in Italian.

Biography/History:

Rabbi of Ancona, and son of Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (1724-1806); authored responsa and cabalistic material (some of which was printed in his son's volume of responsa, Tifʼeret Mosheh).

Summary:

Miscellany mostly comprised of matters of practical cabala, made of a number of fascicles and loose leaves; written mostly in multiple scribal hands in Italian cursive scripts, interspersed with the handwriting of Raphael Isaiah Azulai (who appears to have dictated much of the material to scribes). The first fascicle contains remedies and treatments, as well as practical needs such as remedies for לפתיחת הלב, or increased blood flow (f. 1r); atonement for nightmares (שאלת חלום; f. 1v); recipes for stronger solutions, dyes, and inks (f. 3r-v); the second fascicle contains cabala meditation practices, amuletic texts, names, and ciphers (f. 10r-20v); a Tetragrammaton alliterated into a six-pointed star (f. 10v); more recipes and practices, such as joining anyone to one's will (להשיב כל אדם לרצונך; f. 12r), for use against thieves and merchants' success, with angelic script (f. 26r), and names and sums for accounts in Italian (such as f. 14r). Additional notes, with one in Azulai's hand (f. 8r) with his angelic writing forms; additional remedies (f. 21r, 31r, and more), laws of the Tetragrammaton (f. 7r-v), and chronograms (f. 36r). Bound in a limp vellum binding, with paper pasted (as imitation boards); 19th century shelfmark on spine.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Raphael Isaiah Azulai miscellany of practical cabala (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 691). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1420225010

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