University of Pennsylvania, Halper 457

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS26009

Shelfmark:

Halper 457

Title:

Instructions for amulets

Amulet

Place:

Orient

Date:

11th century-13th century?

eleventh century (dates CE) AAT

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Hebrew and Aramaic

Hebrew WIKIDATA

Aramaic WIKIDATA

Material:

nearly complete, damaged, faded; verso is empty?

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 folio : nearly complete, damaged, faded; verso is empty?

Note:

Recto contains instructions for two amulets, as are specified in the headings: שאלת חלום, for one who requests to see a specific dream; לאהבא, for love. The content of the amulets are mostly simple prayer supplications, but they are to be written and worn. The latter, mostly in Aramaic, is to be written on an egg.
Halper: Verso has writing from left to right, the shape of the characters being reversed. It is possible that the letters were smudged on it from another page; but the regularity of the lines, despite the fact that the writing is obliterated, would lead one to assume that the copyist purposely wrote from left to right (see Halper 453). The letters in some cases are tolerably distinct, and...
Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library).
Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library).
Amram.

Keyword:

Early works

Dreams--Religious aspects--Judaism

Incantations, Hebrew

Mysticism--Judaism

Amulets (Judaism)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940421333503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3n29pr5j/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania