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Judeo-Arabic treatise on geomancery : manuscript.
ספר אודות גיאומנסריה ביהודית-ערבית.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts CAJS Rar Ms 697
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Format:
Language:
Judeo-Arabic
Subjects (All):
Penn Provenance:
  • Sold by Kedem Auctions (Jerusalem), Auction 70 (31 March 2020) item 261.
Physical Description:
34 leaves : paper, charts ; 22 x 15 cm + 1 note.
Production:
  • Syria?, 1900?-1920?
  • סוריה?, 1900?-1920?
Language Note:
In Judeo-Arabic.
Summary:
Manuscript treatise on geomancery, showing the sixteen geomantic figures and their names in Judeo-Arabic ("אלו הן שש עשרה נקודות"; f. 1r) followed by a description of each of the signs and their corresponding elements (f. 1v-7v), remedies and uses of geomantic signs (f. 8r-14v) and additional material including angelic discourse and astrology; the manuscript ends mid-text (f. 25r). Written in a Sephardic semicursive script (text) and a Sephardic square script (captions and titles); catchwords and plosive marks. Item with a manuscript leaf of a cabalistic gematria number chart left in (Yemen, early 19th century).
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Cited as:
Judeo-Arabic treatise on geomancery (UPenn CAJS Rar Ms 697). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
OCLC:
1422546183

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