Amulet for protection (Gaster Amulet 154)
Parchment amulet for protection and healing.
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- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 154
- Title: Amulet for protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Patron(s): Ester bat Miryam (אסתר בת מרים)
- Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
- Date of Creation: 17th-18th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Mode: Carried on the person.
- Function: Healing of fever and protection from illness, evil spirits, and any mischief.
- Quotation(s):"יהרמ"י [יהי רצון מלפניך יהוה] או"א [אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו] שתשמור ותנצור את שפחתך בת אמתך אסתר בת מרים מעין הרע ומשדין ושדתין [...] שכשם שמתמעט זה הפסוק כך תתמעט אש הקדחת מעל שפחתך בת אמתך אסתר בת מרים"
- Extent: height: 80 mm, width: 100 mm.
- Material(s): Parchment
- Format: Sheet
- Condition:
Usage stains, folding lines.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Shape: rectangle
- Script:
Hebrew Sephardi cursive scripts.
- Layout: A single column, except for six equilateral triangles formed by a biblical verse (Song of Songs 7:6) that gradually diminish, a 4x7 table with letters in it, and a Magen David.
- Decoration:
A Magen David that contains in its centre the name שפי, and three letters in its angles that form the name שדי. Some abbreviations and divine names are marked with straight overlines with circles at the edges.
- 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 154
- Title: Amulet for protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Patron(s): Ester bat Miryam (אסתר בת מרים)
- Origin Place: Place of origin not known.
- Date of Creation: 17th-18th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Mode: Carried on the person.
- Function: Healing of fever and protection from illness, evil spirits, and any mischief.
- Quotation(s):"יהרמ"י [יהי רצון מלפניך יהוה] או"א [אלהינו ואלהי אבותינו] שתשמור ותנצור את שפחתך בת אמתך אסתר בת מרים מעין הרע ומשדין ושדתין [...] שכשם שמתמעט זה הפסוק כך תתמעט אש הקדחת מעל שפחתך בת אמתך אסתר בת מרים"
- Extent: height: 80 mm, width: 100 mm.
- Material(s): Parchment
- Format: Sheet
- Condition:
Usage stains, folding lines.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Shape: rectangle
- Script:
Hebrew Sephardi cursive scripts.
- Layout: A single column, except for six equilateral triangles formed by a biblical verse (Song of Songs 7:6) that gradually diminish, a 4x7 table with letters in it, and a Magen David.
- Decoration:
A Magen David that contains in its centre the name שפי, and three letters in its angles that form the name שדי. Some abbreviations and divine names are marked with straight overlines with circles at the edges.
- 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.
