A Judeo-Arabic Fragment of the Magical Treatise Kitāb dāʾirat al-aḥruf al-abǧadiyya

The article provides an edition, Arabic transcription, and English translation of the first text of manuscript G-I-13 (11), which is preserved in the Real Biblioteca del Monasterio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial and which contains several short magical texts. The first of these, entitled “Universal adjuration” (al-qasam al-ǧāmiʿ al-šarīf) is a fragment of a Judeo-Arabic version of an anonymous Arabic magical treatise, the Kitāb dāʾirat al-aḥruf al-abǧadiyya, several versions of which have survived. The Dāʾirat al-aḥruf is a treatise on letter magic attributed to Hermes, which pertains to the genre of the science of the letters (ʿilm al-ḥurūf).