Protective recitation to annul plague ; manuscript.
תפילות סגולה לזמן המגפות.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Contributor:

Elis & Ruth Douer Endowed Fund.

אבן עטר, חיים בן משה, 1696-1743.

Language:

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Plague--Religious aspects.

Plague.

Cabala.

Manuscripts, Hebrew--Yemen (Republic)--18th century--Specimens.

Manuscripts, Hebrew.

Genre:

Prayers.

codices (bound manuscripts)

cryptograms

Penn Provenance:

Number "2368" written in pencil (f. 1r), possibly a former library shelfmark.

Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), 2022 18 January, lot 264.

Physical Description:

6 leaves : paper ; 13 x 10 cm

Production:

Yemen : 1750?-1799?

תימן, 1750?-1799?

Other Title:

Text begins: Segulah la-zeman ha-magefah bar minan u-mikol Yiśraʼel

text begins: סגולה לזמן המגפה בר מינן ומכל ישראל

Language Note:

Hebrew.

Summary:

Manuscript gathering of cabalistic prayers mostly for plague times, also for general meditative practice; the Segulah rabah, or central invocation, contains cipher text and meditation (f. 3r), followed by an intercession prayer to Moses (with a caption stating that Moses recited this upon his death ("כוללת שבח מרע"ה בשעה שהיה עולה למרום", f. 4v) beginning with צבאות שחקים וחילם אשר מעולם with the intercession paragraph at the end ("משה איש האלהים שלום שלום על עפר מנוחתו"; f. 5v). Written in an 18th century Yemenite cursive script, and the final leaf verso likely written in a different hand; paper deckle-edge; bound in a modern full-leather black binding.

Contents:

1. f.1r: Segulah la-zeman ha-magefah bar minan u-mikol Yiśraʼel

2. f. 1v: Tefilah

3. f. 2r-3v: Segulah rabah

4. f. 4r-6r: Tefilah naʼeh

5. f. 6v: Baḳashah zo yoʼamarnah aḥar 13 midot meha-rav ha-ḳadosh ke.mo.ha-r.r. Ḥayim n' ʻAṭar ze.y.ʻa.

1. f.1r: סגולה לזמן המגפה בר מינן ומכל ישראל

2. f. 1v: תפילה

3. f. 2r-3v: סגולה רבה

4. f. 4r-6r: תפילה נאה

5. f. 6v: בקשה זו יאמרנה אחר י"ג מדות מהרב הקדוש כמוהר"ר חיים ן' עטר זי"ע.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger; romanization supplied by cataloger.

Local Notes:

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

Cited as:

Protective recitation to annul plague (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 709). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

Attar, Ḥayyim ben Moses, 1696-1743, Baḳashah., attributed name.

אבן עטר, חיים בן משה, 1696-1743. בקשה.

OCLC:

1445698570