Thick manuscript volume that includes a large collection of instructions for preparing amulets and segulahs in various forms for various diseases, with Kabbalistic illustrations and notations, as well as Sefer HaGoralot . Characteristic Oriental script. Dār-el-Beïḍā [Casablanca], Sivan, 1933. Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
The manuscript is signed on page 3a: “I, the young writer, smallest of the small, most minuscule disciple, dust at the feet of the sages and scholars, David Yosef Vaknin … I wrote it in Sivan, 1933, in the city of Dār-el-Beïḍā …”
The menorah with the psalm LaMenatzeach appears on page 95a, accompanied by the blessing written alongside: “May He Who blesses our forefathers … bless whoever sees this menorah … to live and be meritorious, to live by G-d’s open Hand in fullness and expansiveness, amen, may it be His will, amen v’amen . Whoever sees the form of this menorah is guaranteed to be a ben Olam HaBa . And may the writer also merit Olam HaBa , amen, may it be His will.”
Provenance: Michael Krupp Collection.
[130] leaf, of which [242] pages are written. Approximately 18 cm.
Moderate-fine condition. Several detached leaves. Stains and tears. Few worming perforations in the first leaves. Lacking the back binding and the spine, loose front binding.