Marking Segulah in the Illuminated Bibles of Jewish Iberia.
The power ascribed to the Bible codex was expressed by the word Segulah, which in biblical Hebrew translates as "treasured possession." In the later Middle Ages, however, this word is better translated as "remedy" or "occult virtue," reflecting an infusion of medical and magical concepts which can b...
| Published in: | Medieval Encounters Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 148 - 180 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2022
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