The Book of Oberon

A full transcription and annotation of Folger Shakespeare Library manuscript V.b.26, a large practical grimoire compiled in late sixteenth-century England. It combines Solomonic conjurations, spirit catalogues, fairy magic, treasure-hunting rites, charms and prayers, and reproduces the manuscript's striking colour illustrations. The editors' introduction places the book within Elizabethan cunning-craft and learned magic. An essential primary source for anyone studying how grimoire magic was actually compiled and used in early modern Britain.