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]

Estimate: $1,000–$1,500
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(KABBALAH).

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Publication

n.d.

Description

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

summary

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)

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

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