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Solomonic Magic & the Grimoires

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Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe

by Benedek Láng

A survey of magical manuscripts in late medieval Poland, Bohemia and Hungary, from the libraries of universities, monasteries and royal courts. Láng examines the circulation of the Picatrix, the Ars Notoria, image magic, divination and alchemy, and the scholars who copied them, including texts linked to the court of King Matthias Corvinus. It broadens grimoire studies beyond England and France and is a valuable reference for manuscript transmission.

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