Manuscript - Segulot, Amulets, Incantations and Hashba'ot - Notebook of "Practical Kabbalah" of Rabbi Refael ...

Manuscript - Segulot, Amulets, Incantations and Hashba'ot - Notebook of "Practical Kabbalah" of Rabbi Refael Yeshaya Azulai of Ancona, the Chida's Son - Many Sections in his Own Handwriting
Manuscript, segulot, hashba'ot, incantations, amulets, goralot (lots) and interpretations of dreams - notebook of "practical kabbalah" of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai, son of the Chida and Rabbi of Ancona. Written in part by a scribe and in part by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai. [Ancona, c. 1818-1819].
Manuscript. Some of it is written in elegant Italian Hebrew script and some of it in Sephardi script - the handwriting of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai, who added many segulot and hashba'ot. The manuscript also contains many of his personal lists, with calculations of expenses and income and names of Ancona Jews from 1818-1819. Three leaves in charming Sephardi script [by an unknown writer]. Contains charts, Kabbalistic illustrations and "Ktav Malachim" (Angelic Alphabet).
Following is a general outline of the manuscript:
Leaves [1-3] - Segulot, hashba'ot and incantations, for various occasions: "For blessing the home…", "To restore a person's mind", "To find favor in the eyes of all people even a king and government…", "For love", "To imprison a person", "To change the mind of a dayan or ruler", "To overcome adversaries", etc.; the manner of "arranging amulets", with prayers to "sanctify the amulet".
Leaves [4-7] - Segulot and incantations in the handwriting of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: "For a women who despises her husband", "She'elat Chalom", "To bring menstruation", "To end menstruation", etc.
Leaf [8] - Many segulot for "love", including a "wonderful" segula for love called "hashba'ah of the Valeriana".
Leaves [10-11] - many segulot for love; "segulot of 7 dishes with segulot for all maladies", hashba'ot for writing on dishes to cure various maladies: "For aching hands and feet", "For heart conditions", "For headaches and for all illnesses", "For obsessions and boredom", "For mutism or crooked hands, feet or mouth", "For vesicles", "For a person who arises at night with fears and trembling and imagines things or for anxiety"; G-d's Name which "is forbidden to utter, only to have kavana in thought", for times of trouble: "When the world is in great trouble due to dread or war or pestilence or an epidemic or hunger…". After the long Name, appears the "Seal of the aforementioned Name" - chart of the combination of letters of the Name.
Leaf [12] - "Segula and secret for treating fear".
Leaves [13-14] - Various instructions for casting goralot (titled Goral Baduk), for she'elat chalom. On leaf [13v] is an inscription of an amulet in the handwriting of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai. On leaf [14r] is a handwritten note by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: "Here is a wondrous matter and great secret for confusion of the mind and insanity and depression…".
Leaf [15] - Segulot in the handwriting of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: "Marvelous matter if other cures and segulot do not help…".
Leaf [16v] - Handwritten by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: "She'elat chalom, write on the leaf of an etrog and place under your head…".
Leaves [17-21] - Sefer Pitron Chalomot.
Leaf [24v] - Handwritten by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: version for an amulet "For a person who wants to change
and is under a spell…", etc.
Leaves [25-27] - "Hashba'a of a ring to cast a lot and it is verified" - in attractive Oriental script by an unknown writer.
Leaf [27v] - Handwritten by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: "Incantation for a very painful headache".
Leaf [28] - "Incantation for a person who is coerced by Devils", Italian incantation (written in vowelized Hebrew letters), two lines of marginalia in the handwriting of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai.
Leaf [29] - Handwritten by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai: "To destroy an enemy, know the secret of this Name…".
Leaves [29v-31r] - Amulets and segulot "To separate the love between two people who love one another", "For the hate of an enemy", "For pain of the eyes", "For an eye malady", "To bring light to dark eyes", "For a deathly illness", "To overcome your adversary", "To cause a person to die", etc.
Leaf [31v] - Handwritten by R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai; various segulot: "For hate", "A verified way to overcome an adversary in judgement", "For a woman whose children do not survive", etc.
Personal lists in the handwriting of R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai:
Leaf [16r] - "Calculation of the Safed emissary R. Mordechai Asiyo, I have taken from the treasurer S. Yitzchak Levi for his expenses…" [R. Mordechai Asiyo/Ashiyo. A Salonika sage, author of Higid Mordechai, ascended to Jerusalem and was sent as an emissary to Italy].
Leaf [22] - "Calculation of the wine which I take from David Chason Adar 1819… until Rosh Chodesh Adar… Erev Rosh Chodesh Nissan… the Festival of Pesach… Erev Shavuot… Sivan… Tamuz"; Today, Thursday, I have made a calculation with Shimshon…".
Leaf [23] - "Calculation with the abovementioned…", "I owe Shimshon…".
Leaf [32] - "Nissan 1818: That which I need to take into my account from the community… What I received from David Chason… Moshe Chaim Morpurgo [Rabbi in Ancona]… Ye'uda Avraham Morpurgo … Shabtai Chaim Simili… Azarya Cohen…".
R. Refael Yeshaya Azulai (1743-1826) was born in Jerusalem, the eldest son of his illustrious father Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai - the Chida. A great Torah scholar in his own right, he was a rabbi and posek and leader of Italian Jewry in his times. Some of his halachic responsa were printed in his father's books, who honored and esteemed him and always mentioned him with epithets of love ("my dear son", "my firstborn son, the perfect great chacham", "the light of my eyes", "friend of my soul", etc.). After the death of R. Avraham Yisrael, Rabbi of Ancona, in 1785, the community leaders applied to the Chida and he hinted that his son Rabbi Refael Yeshaya is suitable for this position. He served as Rabbi of Ancona until his death on the 9th of Shevat 1823 (he lived 83 years, like his father). He was greatly honored at his death and was mourned by his congregation for a long time after his death [for further information see the book by M. Benayahu on the Chida, pp. 476-487].
[32] leaves. 19 cm. Good condition. Stains, minor wear to margins. Worming, slightly affecting text in a few places. Several detached leaves. Without binding.