The article discusses an unpublished early modern Hebrew manuscriptof miscellaneous content written by the Italian Jewish physician Avraham Joel Conegliano(1665-1745). After a brief introduction to the codex and its contents, thearticle focuses on the collection of practical and medico-magical recipes containedin the manuscript, which is considered an example of Hebrew books of secrets, aliterary genre that has been almost completely overlooked in the field of Jewishstudies. In the first part, the article presents an overview of the books of secrets thatflourished in Italy and Europe during the Renaissance, and proposes the hypothesisthat secreta literature in Hebrew developed, circulated and was actively used withinJewish culture during the medieval and early modern periods, albeit with significantdifferences. In the second part, the article offers a preliminary analysis of Coneglianosanthology of secrets, as well as a commented edition and English translation ofselected textual excerpts from it.
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