![]() ![]() There, thanks to God’s mercy, he wins the trust of Rabbi Judah Alkabets, and gains access to the rabbi’s library. He is wandering from town to town until he arrives in Venice, the great city full of wise and knowledgeable sages. ![]() 2r)).Īccording to his introduction, Elisha is overcome with a great thirst for knowledge, and he starts on a journey to satisfy it. Title page of The Tree of Knowledge by Elisha ben Gad of Ancona. Secondly, because it has an introduction in which Elisha the author tells the story of how he collected these spells. First, because of its neat layout and accuracy in its execution. ![]() There are a good number of such magical-medical manuscripts in the Hebrew collection, but this volume is special for at least two reasons. It is entitled The Tree of Knowledge ( Ets ha-Da’at) and contains a collection of some 125 magic spells for all sorts of purposes: curses, healing potions, love charms, amulets. One of the items in our postponed exhibition Hebrew Manuscripts: Journeys of the Written Word is a tiny little codex from sixteenth-century Italy. ![]()
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