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3 foolishF9192 heart to all words of the Torah, ‫טפשא לכל פיתגמי אוריתא‬
that he shall hear and learn, ‫דישמע וילף‬

4 and all that he learns he shall not forget. ‫וכל די ילף לא ישכח‬
‫ הה וה יה‬93‫אקקפץ‬
ʾQQPṢ94 HH WH YH
F39 F 29

5 holy, PṬMNY PTPTY PTPYH holy, ‫קדוש פטמני פ ֿתפתי פתפיה‬
ʿGSNṢ ‫קדוש עגסנץ‬

6 MYN holy, ŠSYS HʿNH HYG holy, ‫ֿמ ֿין קדוש שסיס ֿה ֿענה היג‬
THPGYH ‫קדוש תהפגיה‬

7 SPYH holy, ṢWH NPNT HWH holy, ‫ספי ֿה קדוש צוה נפנת הוה‬
STW ‫קדוש סתו‬

8 NQSS Q?W? safeguard ed,96 holy. I ‫ ֿק ֿו סמיר קדוש‬95‫נקסס‬
9F5 F49
‫אומיתי‬
conjure
‫עליכון ואשבעית עליכון‬
9 you and adjure you,

Bowls in the Istanbul and Baghdad Museums,” Archiv Orientální 6 [1934]: 319–34, at
321).

92 Sokoloff, DJBA 514, reconstructs the singular of this adjectival form as ‫טפשאה‬. On
the merger of the noun marker -ā and the adjectival/gentilic morpheme -āʾā, see M.
Morgenstern, “Notes on the Noun Patterns in the Yemenite Tradition of Jewish
Babylonian Aramaic,” Revue des Études Juives 168 (2009): 51–83, at 75–79, where
evidence is also cited for alternative plural forms ‫טיפשי‬, and ‫טיפשאיי‬.

93 For the following set of voces magicae, note a similar sequence in MS New York
Public Library 190 (olim Sassoon 56), p. 77, lines 7–9: ‫ובהדין שמא רבא ויקירא‬
‫ נספרה‬/ ‫ ק'ק'ק' פץ קה והוה קדוש פפותמי קתניה קדוש קתר נקססה‬/ ‫וקדישא‬, “and
by this great, precious, and holy name, H(oly), H(oly), H(oly), PẒ (=WH in atbash)
QH WHWH Holy PPWTMY QTNYH Holy QTR NQSSH NSPRH.”

94 The series of voces magicae in lines 4–8 is characterized by the repetitive structure
XXX + Yh qadosh, and if we omit the initial aleph, we may note that the individual
sequences begin with ‫ ס‬,‫ צ‬,‫ ת‬,‫ ש‬,‫ ע‬,‫ פ‬,‫ק‬, which may indicate an earlier attempt at an
acrostic arrangement of this series.

95 There is a hole, or some other irregularity in the parchment, that was clearly there
before the scribe began writing his text.

96 Compare Mandaic smir, “well preserved, safeguarded,” in MD 333 s.v. SMR.