Codex Gigas and the Legend of the Devil’s Bible
Inside the colossal Codex Gigas: one medieval scribe, a full-page Devil, healing texts, conjurations, war booty and the legend of…
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The Key of Solomon Across Europe’s Hidden Libraries
The Key of Solomon was never one fixed book. It survived as a shifting European family of manuscripts filled with…
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Malleus Maleficarum and the Machinery of the Witch Hunts
The Malleus Maleficarum turned demonological fear into a method: theology, interrogation, gendered suspicion and courtroom procedure bound together by print.
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The Munich Manual and the Clerics Who Summoned Demons
Clm 849 preserves the forbidden underside of learned medieval religion: Latin conjurations, illusionist experiments, treasure magic and rites designed for…
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The Book of Oberon and the Spirits of Elizabethan England
Folger MS V.b.26 opens an Elizabethan spirit world of kings, fairies, demons, healing rites, stolen treasure and Christian conjurations copied…
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The Sworn Book of Honorius and the Oath of Secrecy
The Sworn Book of Honorius binds its reader to secrecy before revealing prayers, angelic hierarchies and one of medieval magic’s…
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The Picatrix and the Architecture of Astral Magic
Born as the Arabic Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm and transformed in Latin Europe, the Picatrix built a complete architecture of planetary images,…
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The Book of Soyga and John Dee’s Lost Tables
John Dee asked the angel Uriel about a mysterious book called Soyga. Its thirty-six letter tables vanished after his death—and…
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Steganographia and the Censorship of Hidden Knowledge
Trithemius wrote messages as invocations to spirits and planetary rulers. For generations, Steganographia appeared to be a book of angelic…
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The Ars Notoria and the Forbidden Art of Perfect Knowledge
The Ars Notoria promised memory, eloquence and mastery of learning through prayers, sacred names and images so dense they resemble…
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