Grimoires
Grimoires are manuals of ritual magic that circulated in manuscript and print in medieval and early modern Europe. This page treats them as historical texts; it gives no instructions.
Established Well-known examples include the Key of Solomon (Clavicula Salomonis), with Latin and Italian manuscripts from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and the Lesser Key of Solomon (Lemegeton), whose first part, the Goetia, is found in seventeenth-century manuscripts.[1][2] Established The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage was published in English by Mathers in 1898 from a French manuscript in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris; older German manuscripts also exist.[3] Tradition / belief Grimoires present themselves as ancient, often attributing authorship to King Solomon; historians treat these attributions as pseudepigraphic.[4]
References
- ↑ S.L. MacGregor Mathers (ed.), The Key of Solomon the King (1889). public domain.
- ↑ S.L. MacGregor Mathers (ed.), The Goetia: The Lesser Key of Solomon the King (1904). US public domain.
- ↑ S.L. MacGregor Mathers (trans.), The Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage (1898). public domain.
- ↑ Owen Davies, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books (2009). Cited only.
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