Amulet for protection (Gaster Amulet 158)
Paper amulet for protection of female newborn.
Information about this document
- Physical Location: The John Rylands Library
- Collection: Gaster Amulet Collection
- Classmark: Gaster Amulet 158
- Title: Amulet for protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Origin Place: London
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Technique(s): Printed
- Mode: Carried on the newborn.
- Function: Protection.
- Note(s):
Includes Psalm 121, and divine names.
Such amulets were printed in Vilnius during the 19th century, and are known to circulate and printed also in Jerusalem and London during the 20th century. For similar amulets see Gaster Amulet 138 and Gaster Amulet 147.
- Quotation(s):"מזל טוב לנקבה: שיר למעלות אשא עיני אל ההרים מאין יבא עזרי [...] בשם ה' אלהי ישראל מימיני מיכאל ומשמאלי גבריאל ומלפני אוריאל ומאחורי רפאל ועל ראשי שכינת אל"
- Extent: height: 218 mm, width: 137 mm.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Sheet
- Condition:
A few usage stains and small tears.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Shape: rectangle
- Script:
Printed Hebrew Ashkenazi square script.
- Layout: Psalm 121 is in a single column. Underneath, a table of two cells containing the formula אדם וחוה פנימה, and the divine names שדי קרע שטן. The biblical patriarchs and matriarchs are listed on the right side of this table. Portions of three biblical verses are displayed on the left side.
- 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 158
- Title: Amulet for protection
- Subject(s): Amulets
- Origin Place: London
- Date of Creation: 19th-20th century
- Language(s): Hebrew
- Former Owner(s): Gaster, Moses 1856-1939
- Technique(s): Printed
- Mode: Carried on the newborn.
- Function: Protection.
- Note(s):
Includes Psalm 121, and divine names.
Such amulets were printed in Vilnius during the 19th century, and are known to circulate and printed also in Jerusalem and London during the 20th century. For similar amulets see Gaster Amulet 138 and Gaster Amulet 147.
- Quotation(s):"מזל טוב לנקבה: שיר למעלות אשא עיני אל ההרים מאין יבא עזרי [...] בשם ה' אלהי ישראל מימיני מיכאל ומשמאלי גבריאל ומלפני אוריאל ומאחורי רפאל ועל ראשי שכינת אל"
- Extent: height: 218 mm, width: 137 mm.
- Material(s): Paper
- Format: Sheet
- Condition:
A few usage stains and small tears.
This item is glued into a notebook and only one side of it is visible.
- Shape: rectangle
- Script:
Printed Hebrew Ashkenazi square script.
- Layout: Psalm 121 is in a single column. Underneath, a table of two cells containing the formula אדם וחוה פנימה, and the divine names שדי קרע שטן. The biblical patriarchs and matriarchs are listed on the right side of this table. Portions of three biblical verses are displayed on the left side.
- 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.
