| Description |
1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Magic in history |
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Magic in history.
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| Contents |
1. Introduction: Magical Books and Magical Rites -- 2. Munich Handbook of Necromancy: Clm 849 -- 3. Banquets, Horses and Castles: Illusionist Experiments -- 4. Love, Favour and Madness: Psychological Experiments -- 5. Learning Hidden and Future Things: Divinatory Experiments -- 6. Formulas for Commanding Spirits: Conjurations and Exorcisms -- 7. Demons and Daimons: The Spirits Conjured -- 8. Magic of Circles and Spheres -- 9. Conclusion -- Edition of the Necromancer's Handbook in Clm 849, Fols 3r-108v |
| Summary |
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 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. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. 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. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-379) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Text is in English and Latin |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Manuscript. Clm 849.
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| SUBJECT |
München -- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek -- Clm 849. swd |
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Sammelhandschrift Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 849 gnd |
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Magic -- History
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Demonology -- History
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
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Demonology
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Magic
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Spiritismus
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Demonology -- History.
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Magic -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271041728 |
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0271041722 |
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