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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, Magical objects

Categories:

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.
Sefer yuḥasin (Book of Genealogies)
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Thus said Abraham the son of Samuel the son of Abraham Zacuto, may his memory be for the world to come. [ . . . ] [T]o bring merit upon myself and others, I was motivated to write this…

Contributor:

Abraham Zacuto

Places:

Salamanca, Spanish Empire (Salamanca, Spain)
Beja, Portuguese Empire (Beja, Portugal)
Tunis, Hafsid Ifriqiya (Tunis, Tunisia)

Date:

ca. 1505

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Monarchy, Exile, Plague, Conversos

Categories:

Historical writing