Manuscript, anthology of practical kabbalah, with Sefer HaRazim attributed to Adam. [Yemen, 19th century.]

Thick volume. Fine Yemenite script, integrated with red ink to some leaves. Many kabbalistic illustrations and diagrams. The entire anthology is in Judeo-Arabic. The last part of the manuscript (starting from leaf 146) contains several works in Hebrew, including two versions of Sefer HaRazim, one attributed to Adam and one to Enoch (for further contents of manuscript, see Hebrew description).
Several signatures at the beginning of the manuscript.
The manuscript is bound in a fine leather binding, with a clasp, in Islamic style (bound in the style of Islamic prayer books).

[2], 200 leaves. 15 cm. Good condition. Stains. Some wear and marginal tears. Original leather binding, with damage, repaired. Placed in a new box.

Provenance: Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.014.

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Miniature manuscript, amulets and Holy Names. [Yemen, 19th/20th century].
Amulets for various occasions, with Kabbalistic illustrations.

[24] leaves. Approx. 5.5 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains, including dark ink stains. Wear. Tears and worming to several leaves, slightly affecting text, repaired with paper. New binding, slipcased.

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Manuscript, amulets and Segulot, Tekufot and zodiacs. [Yemen, 19th/20th century.]
Yemenite script, from several scribes (the last ten leaves are bound from another manuscript). Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Kabbalistic diagrams and illustrations, and angelic script.

[89] leaves. 16 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dampstains. Worming, affecting text. Tears and wear. Marginal tears, affecting text in several places. New binding.

Provenance: Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.040.

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Manuscript, large anthology of practical Kabbalah. [Yemen, 20th century].
Comprehensive anthology, in Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic. Includes many amulet formulas for various issues; with kabbalistic illustrations and symbols, tables and angelic script.

Many amulets are attributed to Biblical figures: Moses, King Solomon, Ezra; an amulet attributed to Arizal (p. 10a); an amulet written by a Jew for Ali, son-in-law of Muhammad, the founder of Islam (leaf 13).

[1], 1-109, 112-119, 110-170, 164-169, [34] leaves (some misfoliation; total: 218 leaves). 18 cm. Thick, high-quality paper. Good condition. Some stains. Unbound gatherings. Placed in a new box.

Provenance: Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, YM.011.099.

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Manuscript, anthology of practical Kabbalah – Shorshei HaShemot and Taalumot Chochmah. [Meknes, 18th century].
Neat Western script. The first part of the manuscript contains Sefer HaShemot (see below), with a colophon by the scribe, R. Yosef Toledano. Afterwards he goes on to copy Taalumot Chochmah, another work of practical Kabbalah (printed Venice, 1667).
The scribe, R. Yosef son of Moshe Toledano, was a Torah scholar of Meknes, Morocco (died 1788).
Several leaves in later scripts are bound at the end of the manuscript, also on practical Kabbalah.

Sefer HaShemot, also known as Shorshei HaShemot, is a comprehensive work on the Holy Names, with detailed descriptions of their functions and use in hashbaot and amulets. The work is composed as an encyclopedic lexicon, and includes thousands of Holy Names and name combinations, as well as much practical Kabbalah. The core of the work was composed by the kabbalist R. Moshe Zacuto (the Ramaz), and it includes kabbalistic secrets he received from his teachers. R. Zacuto's work was of limited scope, but it was later expanded significantly by the Polish kabbalist R. Eliyahu Shapiro, author of Birkat Eliyahu. Due to a libel he fled to Amsterdam and later moved to Italy, where he met the Chida, who praises him in Shem HaGedolim. He later moved to Tunisia, where he passed away ca. 1760. The book thus reached the kabbalists of the Maghreb who copied it and expanded it. The present item is an early copy of the work.

10, 13-19, 22-23, 25-29, 31-58 leaves (leaves missing in Sefer HaShemot and Taalumot Chochmah) + [16] leaves in later scripts not belonging to manuscript. 19 cm. Fair condition. Stains, including dark stains to several leaves slightly affecting text. Wear and tears. Open tears to several leaves, affecting text. Old binding, damaged.

Provenance: Gross Family Collection, Tel Aviv, MO.011.083.

PLEASE NOTE: Item descriptions were shortened in translation. For further information, please refer to Hebrew text.