Two Amulets: I. Aleinu Prayer, and Divine Names of 42 and 72 letters. II. Seder ha-Ketoreth [The Order of Preparing the Holy Incense in the Temple]

AUCTION 27 | Tuesday, February 08th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Ceremonial & Graphic Art

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Lot 295

(KABBALAH).

Two Amulets: I. Aleinu Prayer, and Divine Names of 42 and 72 letters. II. Seder ha-Ketoreth [The Order of Preparing the Holy Incense in the Temple]

Black ink on vellum. Letters with crownlets (tagin) and parchment ruled in conformity to scribal arts. The Divine Names are written in Aschkenazic script; the Order of Incense in Sephardic script I. 70 x 205 mm., 6 lines (Aleinu); 165 x 200 mm., 23 lines (Divine Names). II. 145 x 210 mm., 37 lines. Good condition

n.p.: n.d.

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

The Order of Incense follows the Sephardic recension of the text. The eleven ingredients that went into the preparation of the Incense are correlated to the ten sephiroth, with the eleventh spice, galbanum, assigned to the “Or Makif” (Surrounding Light)