Manuscript on Parchment - Seder Pitum HaKetoret, with Kabbalistic Kavanot - Amulet for Termination of an Epidemic ...

Manuscript on Parchment - Seder Pitum HaKetoret, with Kabbalistic Kavanot - Amulet for Termination of an Epidemic Which Spread in Jerusalem in 1790
Vellum manuscript, Seder Pitum HaKetoret with kavanot. Sephardic scribal script. [Jerusalem, 1790?].
Long, narrow strip of parchment. Scribal writing.
Pitum HaKetoret, with Kabbalistic Kavanot added above some words. Written at the bottom: "To terminate the epidemic which spread in Jerusalem in 1790".
It seems that this is an amulet written by a Jerusalem Kabbalist at the time of an epidemic [the writing in the margin may have been added at a later time as documentation of that epidemic]. We do not know to which epidemic the manuscript is referring. It is known that an epidemic occurred in the city of Hebron in Elul 1790 and that Hebron residents fled to Jerusalem, [see: S. Horenstein, Givat Shaul, Vienna, 1893, pp. 88-89]. Possibly, this connection between the two cities spread the epidemic to Jerusalem, a city which was unfortunately accustomed to harsh epidemics [historical data exists regarding a severe epidemic which spread in the city of Hebron in 1629; another epidemic in the 17th century in which most of the immigrants who came with rabbi Yehuda HaChassid perished, another epidemic in 1747-1748 during the time of Rabbi Gershon of Kuty, brother-in-law of the Ba'al Shem Tov; and the well-known epidemic which spread in 1865-1866 and claimed the lives of many of the city's Rabbis].
Concerning the advantage of reciting the passage Pitum HaKetoret, the Arizal wrote: It is good to recite Pitum HaKetoret during an epidemic. Therefore, during the time of an epidemic, when one recites Pitum HaKetoret in the morning and in the afternoon prayers, he should have the same kavanot as written in Seder HaKetoret (Sha'ar HaKavanot, Drush Tefillat Shacharit).
9.5X53 cm. 7 lines. Dark-colored parchment. Fair condition. Stains, folding marks, tears.