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Sefer goralot
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These illustrated pages are from a manuscript copy of Sefer goralot (Book of Lots), a treatise on geomancy, which was a method of divination popular in the medieval world. The text was attributed…

Contributor:

Abraham Ibn Ezra

Places:

Córdoba, Spanish Empire (Córdoba, Spain)

Date:

18th Century

Subjects:

Kabbalah, Astrology, Philosophy, Arabic, Translation

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Magical Texts, Print & Book Culture
Facing-page manuscript with illustration of fish and spiral design with Hebrew list below on right side, and illustrations of ram's head and bull's head with Hebrew lists below on left page.
Portrait of Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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This engraving portrays Isaac Aboab da Fonseca, a rabbi, kabbalist, and preacher, born in Castro Daire, Portugal, to a family of New Christians. He arrived in Amsterdam with his family at the age of…

Contributor:

Aernout Naghtegaal

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1683

Subjects:

Portrait, Print, Sephardi, Kabbalah, Rabbis

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Rabbinic Commentary
Print portrait of man in skullcap and beard, in front of bookshelf and holding open book in his hand, with crown and Hebrew text underneath.
Sefer ha-kavanot (Kabbalistic Intentions in Prayer and Performance of Precepts)
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This manuscript copy of Sefer ha-kavanot (The Book of [Kabbalistic] Intentions [in Prayer and Performance of Precepts]) by Ḥayim Vital was written in Meknes, Morocco. The kabbalists in Safed stressed…

Contributor:

David ben Aaron Ibn Ḥasin

Places:

Meknes, Morocco

Date:

1737

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Kabbalah, Prayer, Writing

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Mystical Texts
Manuscript page with Hebrew text in middle surrounded by border of geometric shapes.
Compendium of Practical Kabbalah
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This remarkable manuscript of practical kabbalah was written in Eastern Europe in the mid-eighteenth century; at the end of that century it was owned by the Radvil Hasidic dynasty. In contrast to…

Contributor:

Artist Unknown

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ukraine)

Date:

ca. 1740

Subjects:

Illuminated manuscripts, Kabbalah, Hasidism, Mysticism, Amulets

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Magical Texts
Facing page manuscript arranged vertically with Hebrew text in the shape of a figure wielding two long objects.