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Texts & manuscripts · Liber VII
The texts of Divination
4 works, arranged by date — each dated, summarised and brought up to date with current editions and scholarship. Complete texts are in the reading room.
Chyromantie ac Physionomie Anastasis (Cocles, 1504) Chyromantie ac physionomie anastasis Physiognomy and Chiromancy LatinBartolomeo della Rocca, called Cocles (1467–1504) · Bologna, 1504
Scrying with the Seven Aerial Kings (Ghent MS 1021A) Experimentum of the seven masters of the days LatinAnonymous · manuscript mid-16th century
The Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals The Art of Drawing Spirits into Chrystals EnglishAttributed to Johannes Trithemius (pseudepigraphic); published by Francis Barrett · published 1801 (in Barrett’s The Magus); source text probably 17th–18th century
Crystal-Gazing (Theodore Besterman) Crystal-Gazing: A Study in the History, Distribution, Theory and Practice of Scrying EnglishTheodore Besterman (1904–1976) · London, 1924