forbidden rites a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century

Subject: Thesaurus Necromatiae Subject: conjurations Subject: Comparison Subject: consecrating Subject: Demonology - History.Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Product Details ISBN: 9780271017518 Binding: Trade Paperback Publication date: Publisher: Penn State University Press Series info: Magic in History Language: English Pages: 392 Height: 1.09IN Width: 6.26IN Thickness: 1.25 LCCN: 97026745 Series: Magic in History Number of Units: 1 Copyright Year: 1998 Series Volume: #91 UPC Code: 2800271017510 Author: Richard Kieckhefer Subject: Dâemonologie Subject: Picatrix Subject: Translation Subject: Prayers Subject: Roger Bacon Subject: Magic in History Subject: Magic - History.

With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.

It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents-prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available.

Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages.

Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves.

Forbidden rites a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century