Recipe book (Gaster Amulet 139)
Fragment from a recipe book.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 139
- Title: Recipe book
- Subject(s): Amulets; Jewish magic
- Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Function: For pregnancy and to treat magically-caused impotence.
- Note(s):
The folio contains nine recipes for pregnancy, and five recipes for magically-caused impotence (קשור). The scribe occasionally referred to his sources (מ"א = מפעלות אלקים, נגיד ומצוה).
Each paragraph focuses on a different topic.
- Quotation(s):"שער סגולות [...] סגולה להיריון קח עור של שועל ושרוף אותו שישוב אל עפר ואפר ותן עפרו במים ותשתה האשה ג' ימים ותתעבר בעזרת האל. ע"א [עוד אחד] קח רחם של ארנבת ותייבשנה היטב ותשחוק אותו היטב דק ותשתה האשה את האפר קודם הזווג בתוך יין ישן, וכל היותר מיושן מובחר. וגם בעלה ישתה מרחם אחר"
- Extent: height: 172 mm, width: 125 mm.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition:
Many small tears appear in the text, but the majority of it is intact.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Shape: rectangle
- Script:
Hebrew Sephardi semi-cursive script.
- Foliation:
Pagination in Hebrew characters in upper left margin (pages 6 and 7).
- Layout: Single column.
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 139
- Title: Recipe book
- Subject(s): Amulets; Jewish magic
- Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Function: For pregnancy and to treat magically-caused impotence.
- Note(s):
The folio contains nine recipes for pregnancy, and five recipes for magically-caused impotence (קשור). The scribe occasionally referred to his sources (מ"א = מפעלות אלקים, נגיד ומצוה).
Each paragraph focuses on a different topic.
- Quotation(s):"שער סגולות [...] סגולה להיריון קח עור של שועל ושרוף אותו שישוב אל עפר ואפר ותן עפרו במים ותשתה האשה ג' ימים ותתעבר בעזרת האל. ע"א [עוד אחד] קח רחם של ארנבת ותייבשנה היטב ותשחוק אותו היטב דק ותשתה האשה את האפר קודם הזווג בתוך יין ישן, וכל היותר מיושן מובחר. וגם בעלה ישתה מרחם אחר"
- Extent: height: 172 mm, width: 125 mm.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Codex
- Condition:
Many small tears appear in the text, but the majority of it is intact.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Shape: rectangle
- Script:
Hebrew Sephardi semi-cursive script.
- Foliation:
Pagination in Hebrew characters in upper left margin (pages 6 and 7).
- Layout: Single column.
- Acquisition: Acquired by The John Rylands Library from the heirs of Moses Gaster in 1954.
- Date of Acquisition: 1954
- Data Source(s): Catalogue description is by Gal Sofer (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva); edited by Zsófia Buda.
