Manuscript, Sefer Goralot Mei’Hachacham Ibn Ezra. Kuba [currently in Azerbaijan], 1862.
Specifications: [92] pages, with 80 pages of written text.
Content: The manuscript includes the “Mazal Choli” with instructions for curing diseases; achieving health goals; arousing hatred between man and wife; love; how to ascertain what a wife will do when she is far away, and more. Quotes an anecdote about Rabbi Matya ben Cheresh, medrashei psukim, Goralot Achitofel, and the “mazal choli l’Chizkiyahu HaMalech.” The leaf after the title page features a table with aleph-beit letters for 1-42, undereath them is the text אני קטן המעתיקים רב”א ס”ט בשביל יצחק בר שמחה. At the end of the 42 clauses is the text: תם ונשלם ש ב ח לאל בורא עולם.
This concluding text is followed by a number of blank pages which is then followed by a table with the “Ana Bikoach” prayer in a chart, and the text…”Whomever shall come to ask, before asking should recite ‘Hashem is my portion….You support my lot…’and should place his hand on a word and it will be his question.” This opens to an index according to the order of words in the “Ana Bikoach” prayer, through the word “גמלם.” Next to each word there is an answer for the questioner who placed his hand on that word in the chart.
Condition: Moderate-fine. Stains, number of detached leaves, two leaves are stuck closed, a few leaves are worn at their edges, the spine is partially broken.