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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires
The Transformations of Magic
Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
- First published2013
- TraditionSolomonic Magic
- Shelf122 books
A Magic in History monograph that surveys the surviving English manuscripts of ritual magic from roughly 1300 to 1600 to see who copied them and why. Klaassen distinguishes between image magic, generally tolerated as natural philosophy, and ritual necromancy, and traces how both were transformed by humanism, the Reformation and print. Rigorous yet readable, it is essential for understanding the real readership of the grimoires before the modern occult revival.
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- Ars Notoria (The Notory Art of Solomon)late 12th–early 13th century; English translation 1657
- The AlmadelLatin versions from the 13th century or earlier; English versions 17th century
- The Sworn Book of Honorius13th–early 14th century
- The Book of the Seven Rings of the Planets (attributed to Messalah)Medieval; manuscripts 15th–17th century
- Lucidarium of Necromancy (attributed to Peter of Abano)Late medieval; principal manuscript c. 1533–1566
- Antipalus Maleficiorum (Trithemius’s Catalogue of Magic Books)written 1508; first printed 1605
- The Key of Knowledge (British Library Add. MS 36674)Mid to late 16th century
- The Lemegeton, or Lesser Key of SolomonCompiled mid-17th century from older sources; main manuscripts c. 1640s–1713
- Ars Paulina (Lemegeton, Book Three)Mid-17th century English version of an older Latin Pauline art
- Solomon and the Ars Notoria (Lynn Thorndike)New York, 1923
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