Catalogue · Texts & Manuscripts
Texts & manuscripts · Liber XV
The texts of History & Scholarship
5 works, arranged by date — each dated, summarised and brought up to date with current editions and scholarship. Complete texts are in the reading room.
On the Operation of Daemons (Pseudo-Psellos) De operatione daemonum Peri energeias daimonōn dialogos Timotheus, or On Demons GreekTraditionally attributed to Michael Psellos (1018–c. 1078); now generally considered pseudonymous · Traditionally 11th century; possibly late 13th or early 14th century; English translation 1843
The Sphere of Sacrobosco De sphaera mundi Tractatus de sphaera LatinJohannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood, c. 1195–c. 1256) · c. 1230; English translation by Lynn Thorndike 1949
A Letter, Containing a Most Brief Discourse Apologetical A Letter, Containing a most briefe Discourse Apologeticall EnglishJohn Dee (1527–1608) · dated Mortlake 1595; printed London, 1599
Solomon and the Ars Notoria (Lynn Thorndike) A History of Magic and Experimental Science, vol. 2, chapter 49 EnglishLynn Thorndike (1882–1965) · New York, 1923
Peacock Angel (E. S. Drower) Peacock Angel: Being Some Account of Votaries of a Secret Cult and Their Sanctuaries EnglishE. S. Drower (Lady Ethel Stefana Drower, 1879–1972) · London, 1941