General

Title

Jerusalem, NLI, Ms. Heb. 4=9788

Manuscript name

Coppio Ilan amulet

Summary

This goatskin ilan amulet was likely created in Jerusalem by the scribe Nissim Sejera and is an abridged adaptation of Isaac Coppio's two column ilan (Jerusalem, NLI, Ms. Heb. 4=9790). The adaptation constitutes a significant reduction of the original from which much text has also been removed. The ilan includes a magical addendum personalized for a specific client: Moses son of Malakand Cohen. The existence of an almost identical copy featuring the name of a different recipient (New York, JTS, Ms. 435) indicates their commercial production.

Support material

parchment

Main language

Rabbinic Hebrew

Hand description

Square

Identifier

Ms. Heb. 9788=4

NLI identifier

990038357180205171

Repository

The National Library of Israel

Country

Israel

Settlement

Jerusalem

Colophon

"אילן זה לשם ולהצלחת בכל מעשים ובכל עסקים של משה בן מלאקנד כהן הי"ו ומכל צרה יצילנו ובכל אשר יפנה ישכיל ויצליח ... תוככי ירושלים עה"ק תובב"א אנס"ו.

Research literature

J. H. Chajes, The Kabbalistic Tree (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022), 295–296, 304–306, 356–357, 398.

Creation time

Date

19th century