Grimoire (occult compendium), with rituals, recipes and sections on alchemy, astrology and demonology, in Italian and Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy (perhaps Naples), seventeenth and early eighteenth century] 20 leaves (last 2 blank), complete, single column of up to 28 lines in an unprofessional but neat hand, diagrams set within text, small spots and stains, old water damage causing loss of upright border in middle of book, but with little or no affect to text, edges woolly there, overall fair and legible condition, 215 by 154mm.; roughly stitched into contemporary pink paper binding Provenance: Written by an occult practitioner, probably for his own use, and perhaps partly in Naples: note at end of text Neapoli 6. Augusti 1726. Text: The text here includes the Virtutes Psalmorum Regis David: a series of seventy-one divinatory precepts hidden in plain sight after the first verse of the psalms to avoid censorship. To this has been added a multitude of related texts including studies of the formula abracadabra, seals formed from Hebrew characters, the Celestial alphabet (with the letters and their corresponding syllables given in full), the alphabet of Malachi, the Tetragrammaton, Hydromantia, and a series of prophecies of future events to happen in years between 1740 and 1990. It ends with a table of the hours of the planets across two pages.
Grimoire (occult compendium), with rituals, recipes and sections on alchemy, astrology and demonology, in Italian and Latin, illustrated manuscript on paper [Italy (perhaps Naples), seventeenth and early eighteenth century] 20 leaves (last 2 blank), complete, single column of up to 28 lines in an unprofessional but neat hand, diagrams set within text, small spots and stains, old water damage causing loss of upright border in middle of book, but with little or no affect to text, edges woolly there, overall fair and legible condition, 215 by 154mm.; roughly stitched into contemporary pink paper binding Provenance: Written by an occult practitioner, probably for his own use, and perhaps partly in Naples: note at end of text Neapoli 6. Augusti 1726. Text: The text here includes the Virtutes Psalmorum Regis David: a series of seventy-one divinatory precepts hidden in plain sight after the first verse of the psalms to avoid censorship. To this has been added a multitude of related texts including studies of the formula abracadabra, seals formed from Hebrew characters, the Celestial alphabet (with the letters and their corresponding syllables given in full), the alphabet of Malachi, the Tetragrammaton, Hydromantia, and a series of prophecies of future events to happen in years between 1740 and 1990. It ends with a table of the hours of the planets across two pages.
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