Provenance
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Does the 76 on the cover refer to the year the book was made, or does it have some other significance? One of the meanings assigned to the number 76 in the Sepher Sephiroth is “Secret, put away; a hiding place”,
so the latter is a possibility. See the entire volume here.
Does the 76 on the cover refer to the year the book was made, or does it have some other significance? One of the meanings assigned to the number 76 in the Sepher Sephiroth is “Secret, put away; a hiding place”,
so the latter is a possibility. See the entire volume here.
Box 35 Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qoi Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit ca. 1750
Scope and Content Note
Comte St. Germain. 28.4 x 22 cm. 24 leaves. Illustrations, ink, gilt. Contains translation of Masonic
symbols. Triangular book. [210]
Saint-Germain taught that man has in him infinite possibilities and that from the practical point of view, he must strive unceasingly to free himself from matter in order to enter into communication with the world of higher intelligences.
This curious book was for many years in the Library of Lionel Hauser, Ancien membre du Conseil de Direction de la Societe Theosophique du France. It was sold with the rest of his collection at Sotheby's celibrated Auction House in London. He could give me no additional information about the manuscript which had come to him through the usual book collecting channels. He showed me at the time a Masonic Lodge coin which had belonged to a member of St.-Germain's group.
The book itself is triangular in shape, on vellum, and written in cipher with the exception of the title page. The cipher itself is quite simple, belonging to the class found in Masonic documents, and decodes into French. It is titled The Sacred Magic Revealed to Moses, recovered in an Egyptian monument and carefully preserved in Asia under the Device of a Winged Dragon...written about 1750. On the first page above a wyvern are the words: "By the gift of the most wise Comte de St.-Germain who passed through the circle of the earth." The writing itself belongs to a class known as Grimoire or Manuals of Ceremonial Magic.
A free translation of the opening pages follows:
"The orbit (magic circle) which thou seest on the preceding page will serve thee as a model to make others which shall be nine cubits in diameter. Thou shalt use these to perform marvels, a priviledge which thy predecessors Beros and Sanchoniaton did not have. I give thee at the same time the intelligence of the characters in which is written my revelation so that thou mayest make use of them for three purposes: to find things lost in the seas since the upsetting of the globe (the Deluge); to discover mines of diamonds, gold and silver in the heart of the earth; to preserve the health and prolong the life to a century or over with the freshness of fifty years and the strength of that age."
The balance of the manuscript is devoted to the consecration of magical impliments and prayers to spirits. The writing ends with the following prayer addressed to attendant spirits:
"In the name of the Eternal, of the True God, Master of my body, my soul and my spirit, go; go in peace; retire ye. Let it be that one of you accompany me always and that the others may be ready to come when I shall call."
Most of the formulas are magical rather than alchemical and so involved in obscure symbolism and Cabalistic names as to be impractical to the modern reader.
Le Magie Sainte is obviously based on a mysterious document of unknown antiquity called the Clavicula Solomonis or the Key of Solomon. This curious production was circulated widely during the Middle Ages and was supposed to have been derived from instructions in magic bestowed by King Solomon upon his son.St.-Germain's manuscript is illustrated with drawings of magic circles executed in several colors, including gold. In the text are invocations to spirits, with the names of numerous spirits and demons. It is quite possible that the simple process of decoding does not reveal the true text.
The document may have an under-meaning relating to matters of philosophy and esoteric Masonry. It was copied on several occassions for the use of the members of the French Masonic Order. The copies are inferior in workmansip and are usually written on paper. I have one such copy for comparison with the original. This copy which is magnificently bound, and decorated with masonic symbols, has an additional page at the beginning describing its original owner, Antoine Louis Moret, New York, 1810.
Contact Information:
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Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
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Phone: (310) 440-7390
Fax: (310) 440-7780
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I have been fortunate to come across an English translation of some of the text from the manuscript, the cipher used is quite a simple substitution cipher. The texts are now in posession of the Getty Centre in Los Angeles, which purchased part of the Manly Palmer Hall collection a few years ago. This manuscript, bought from Frank Hollings, a London antiquary, after 1933 (he apparently was unaware of the Hauser St. Germain manuscript [MS 210 - below]) came from the occult library of Mme. Barbe, who had it from the bibiographer Stanislaus de Guaita, who in turn bought it at the auction of the library of Jules Favre. It is a copy made from one of the magical texts in the possession of St. Germain by the owner's permission. A number of such copies were executed for the members of his Masonic lodge in Paris, and the following manuscript, as different in style as it is, may be one of the copies too. It is unclear in both cases whether the Comte St. Germain wrote these magical formulae or owned a copy of an ancient text. This manuscript was made for Antoine Louis Moret, a French emigre to America active in Masonry and in politics.
Manly Palmer Hall [P.R.S.] MS. 209.
31 folios. Parchment. Triangular. 210 x 244 x 244mm. [Comte St. Germain] 'No. Soixante & Seize'. De la collection maconnique du F : illustre F : Antoine Louis Moret fondateur, et V�n� honoraire de la R : ... La Sincerite No. 122. Ex president du Souv : Chap : la Triple union Or : maitre, Elu, chevalier commandeur, patriarch, Prince & Govr : Prince des tous les ordres macon : et des tous les Rites : Francais, Ecossais, Anglais, irelandais, Prussiens, &c. &c. &c. Govr : G : insp : Gene : du 33e degre S : P : D : E : Or : de : New York Etats unis L'am : du Nord 5810.
Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qui Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit. [Blue and gold ink on various leaves of ruled parchment. Text in cypher with three magical illustrations in gilt and several other colours of ink.]
Manly Palmer Hall [P.R.S.] MS. 210. 24 folios. Parchment. Triangular 237 x 237 x 235mm. [Comte St. Germain.] Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qui Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit.
The Getty Centre have an online Library, the entry point can be located here : opac.pub.getty.edu...This manuscript passed from the collection of Moret to the famous library of occult books and manuscripts formed by the late Mme. Barbe of Paris. In the interval it had belonged to Stanislaus de Guaita, French transcendentalist, who purchased it at the sale of books belonging to Jules Favre, the French Statesman and bibliophile. Moret was one of the heads of Masonry in Europe and America. He came to America and settled here for some time. The manuscript, therefore, is of greatest importance in the literature of early American Masonry. During the middle years of the 19th century, a school of transcendentalists came into being in France under the able leadersip of Abbe Louis Constant, better known by is pseudonym Eliphas Levi. He was a member of the Fratres Lucis, and was devoted to the mysteries of the Holy Cabala. Levi gethered around himself a brilliant group of European intellectuals who devoted much time to searching out available information on St.-Germain. Most of the rarer books and manuscripts passed through their hands, and in some cases copies were made. These are almost as scarce as the orignals.
PROVENANCE: It is not known for sure if St. Germain actually wrote these rites or adapted them from an older magical text in his possession. This manuscript was offered at the Hauser Sale in 1933 (item #527). The key to the cypher in an accompanying bound volume was provided with the lot. A typed French transcription and English translation are to be found in the bound volume, inserted in the slip-case. Another French translation is in the bound volume accompanying the other copy of this text, provided by the bookseller.
MS 209 was bought from Frank Hollings, a London antiquary, after 1933. It came from the occult library of Mme. Barbe, who had gotten it from the bibliographer Stanislaus de Guaita, who bought it from an auction of the library of Jules Favre. It is a copy made from one of the magical texts in the possession of St. Germain by the owner's permission. A number of such copies were executed for the members of his Masonic lodge in Paris, and the following manuscript (210), as different in style as it is, may be one of the copies too. It is unclear in both cases whether the Comte St. Germain wrote these magical formulae or owned a copy of an ancient text. This manuscript was made for Antoine Louis Moret, a French emigre to America active in Masonry and politics.
The litany of St. Germain's miracles--his eternal youthfulness, his incomparable painting of pigments made from the colors magically pulled out of gemstones, his endless wealth, his invisibility, his brilliant sonatas, and inspired violin performances, the flaws removed from the King's diamonds, metals transmuted, languages spoken, friends among the long-dead -- these and many more tales, and a few unflattering references in the shards of eighteenth century diplomacy constitute his whole legend. He is said to have whispered words of unheeded advice to Marie Antoinette. His image remains the centerpiece of newly fabricated mythologies, often of Rosicrucian, Masonic and New Age origin. There remain a number of remarkable contemporary testimonies and unsolved puzzles. As for hard evidence, there is none.
St. Germain has been described as the greatest of European adepts. His prodigious knowledge of history and philosophy was often commented on in his day. In a letter to Frederick II, Voltaire described St. Germain as "the man who never dies."
Both MS 209 and 210 now reside in the Getty Research library, having been sold in the estate auction of Manly Palmer Hall by his lawyers to satisfy debts.
MS 209 has 31 leaves, 4 are blank. 21.0 x 24.4 x 24.4 (triangular)
MS 210 has 24 triangular leaves, 23.7 x 23.7 x 23.5
Mid 18th c. French, blue and gold ink on ruled parchment. Text in cipher with two magical illustrations in gilt and several other colors of ink. MS 209 has 3 illustrations in gilt and other colors of ink. French portions of text in both are in script.
[ Box 35 ]
Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qoi Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit. [ ca. 1750 ]
Comte St. Germain. 28.4 x 22 cm. 24 leaves. Illustrations, ink, gilt. Contains translation of Masonic symbols. Triangular book. [210]
Hall (Manly Palmer) Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825Finding aid prepared by Trevor Bond.
The Getty Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Phone: (310) 440-7390
Fax: (310) 440-7780
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/library
©1998 J. Paul Getty Trust.
Descriptive SummaryTitle:
Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825
Collection number:
Accession no. 950053
Collector:
Hall, Manly Palmer, 1901-
Extent:
7.5 linear ft.
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract:
A collection of 243 manuscripts detailing the arts of Alchemy, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, and Masonry, gathered over a lifetime by Many Palmer Hall, author and researcher in the realms of mysticism and the occult and related areas.
Open for use by qualified researchers. Contact the Head of Special Collections, Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish. Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 950053. Acquired in 1995
Trevor Bond processed the collection January 1998 and wrote the finding aid March 1998
224 printed books were transferred to the library on June 6, 1995.
Scope and Content Note
Comte St. Germain. 28.4 x 22 cm. 24 leaves. Illustrations, ink, gilt. Contains translation of Masonic
symbols. Triangular book. [210]
Saint-Germain taught that man has in him infinite possibilities and that from the practical point of view, he must strive unceasingly to free himself from matter in order to enter into communication with the world of higher intelligences.
This curious book was for many years in the Library of Lionel Hauser, Ancien membre du Conseil de Direction de la Societe Theosophique du France. It was sold with the rest of his collection at Sotheby's celibrated Auction House in London. He could give me no additional information about the manuscript which had come to him through the usual book collecting channels. He showed me at the time a Masonic Lodge coin which had belonged to a member of St.-Germain's group.
The book itself is triangular in shape, on vellum, and written in cipher with the exception of the title page. The cipher itself is quite simple, belonging to the class found in Masonic documents, and decodes into French. It is titled The Sacred Magic Revealed to Moses, recovered in an Egyptian monument and carefully preserved in Asia under the Device of a Winged Dragon...written about 1750. On the first page above a wyvern are the words: "By the gift of the most wise Comte de St.-Germain who passed through the circle of the earth." The writing itself belongs to a class known as Grimoire or Manuals of Ceremonial Magic.
A free translation of the opening pages follows:
"The orbit (magic circle) which thou seest on the preceding page will serve thee as a model to make others which shall be nine cubits in diameter. Thou shalt use these to perform marvels, a priviledge which thy predecessors Beros and Sanchoniaton did not have. I give thee at the same time the intelligence of the characters in which is written my revelation so that thou mayest make use of them for three purposes: to find things lost in the seas since the upsetting of the globe (the Deluge); to discover mines of diamonds, gold and silver in the heart of the earth; to preserve the health and prolong the life to a century or over with the freshness of fifty years and the strength of that age."
The balance of the manuscript is devoted to the consecration of magical impliments and prayers to spirits. The writing ends with the following prayer addressed to attendant spirits:
"In the name of the Eternal, of the True God, Master of my body, my soul and my spirit, go; go in peace; retire ye. Let it be that one of you accompany me always and that the others may be ready to come when I shall call."
Most of the formulas are magical rather than alchemical and so involved in obscure symbolism and Cabalistic names as to be impractical to the modern reader.
Le Magie Sainte is obviously based on a mysterious document of unknown antiquity called the Clavicula Solomonis or the Key of Solomon. This curious production was circulated widely during the Middle Ages and was supposed to have been derived from instructions in magic bestowed by King Solomon upon his son.St.-Germain's manuscript is illustrated with drawings of magic circles executed in several colors, including gold. In the text are invocations to spirits, with the names of numerous spirits and demons. It is quite possible that the simple process of decoding does not reveal the true text.
The document may have an under-meaning relating to matters of philosophy and esoteric Masonry. It was copied on several occassions for the use of the members of the French Masonic Order. The copies are inferior in workmansip and are usually written on paper. I have one such copy for comparison with the original. This copy which is magnificently bound, and decorated with masonic symbols, has an additional page at the beginning describing its original owner, Antoine Louis Moret, New York, 1810.
Contact Information:
The Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Phone: (310) 440-7390
Fax: (310) 440-7780
Email Requests: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/reference_form.html
URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/library/
I have been fortunate to come across an English translation of some of the text from the manuscript, the cipher used is quite a simple substitution cipher. The texts are now in posession of the Getty Centre in Los Angeles, which purchased part of the Manly Palmer Hall collection a few years ago. This manuscript, bought from Frank Hollings, a London antiquary, after 1933 (he apparently was unaware of the Hauser St. Germain manuscript [MS 210 - below]) came from the occult library of Mme. Barbe, who had it from the bibiographer Stanislaus de Guaita, who in turn bought it at the auction of the library of Jules Favre. It is a copy made from one of the magical texts in the possession of St. Germain by the owner's permission. A number of such copies were executed for the members of his Masonic lodge in Paris, and the following manuscript, as different in style as it is, may be one of the copies too. It is unclear in both cases whether the Comte St. Germain wrote these magical formulae or owned a copy of an ancient text. This manuscript was made for Antoine Louis Moret, a French emigre to America active in Masonry and in politics.
Manly Palmer Hall [P.R.S.] MS. 209.
31 folios. Parchment. Triangular. 210 x 244 x 244mm. [Comte St. Germain] 'No. Soixante & Seize'. De la collection maconnique du F : illustre F : Antoine Louis Moret fondateur, et V�n� honoraire de la R : ... La Sincerite No. 122. Ex president du Souv : Chap : la Triple union Or : maitre, Elu, chevalier commandeur, patriarch, Prince & Govr : Prince des tous les ordres macon : et des tous les Rites : Francais, Ecossais, Anglais, irelandais, Prussiens, &c. &c. &c. Govr : G : insp : Gene : du 33e degre S : P : D : E : Or : de : New York Etats unis L'am : du Nord 5810.
Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qui Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit. [Blue and gold ink on various leaves of ruled parchment. Text in cypher with three magical illustrations in gilt and several other colours of ink.]
Manly Palmer Hall [P.R.S.] MS. 210. 24 folios. Parchment. Triangular 237 x 237 x 235mm. [Comte St. Germain.] Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qui Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit.
The Getty Centre have an online Library, the entry point can be located here : opac.pub.getty.edu...This manuscript passed from the collection of Moret to the famous library of occult books and manuscripts formed by the late Mme. Barbe of Paris. In the interval it had belonged to Stanislaus de Guaita, French transcendentalist, who purchased it at the sale of books belonging to Jules Favre, the French Statesman and bibliophile. Moret was one of the heads of Masonry in Europe and America. He came to America and settled here for some time. The manuscript, therefore, is of greatest importance in the literature of early American Masonry. During the middle years of the 19th century, a school of transcendentalists came into being in France under the able leadersip of Abbe Louis Constant, better known by is pseudonym Eliphas Levi. He was a member of the Fratres Lucis, and was devoted to the mysteries of the Holy Cabala. Levi gethered around himself a brilliant group of European intellectuals who devoted much time to searching out available information on St.-Germain. Most of the rarer books and manuscripts passed through their hands, and in some cases copies were made. These are almost as scarce as the orignals.
PROVENANCE: It is not known for sure if St. Germain actually wrote these rites or adapted them from an older magical text in his possession. This manuscript was offered at the Hauser Sale in 1933 (item #527). The key to the cypher in an accompanying bound volume was provided with the lot. A typed French transcription and English translation are to be found in the bound volume, inserted in the slip-case. Another French translation is in the bound volume accompanying the other copy of this text, provided by the bookseller.
MS 209 was bought from Frank Hollings, a London antiquary, after 1933. It came from the occult library of Mme. Barbe, who had gotten it from the bibliographer Stanislaus de Guaita, who bought it from an auction of the library of Jules Favre. It is a copy made from one of the magical texts in the possession of St. Germain by the owner's permission. A number of such copies were executed for the members of his Masonic lodge in Paris, and the following manuscript (210), as different in style as it is, may be one of the copies too. It is unclear in both cases whether the Comte St. Germain wrote these magical formulae or owned a copy of an ancient text. This manuscript was made for Antoine Louis Moret, a French emigre to America active in Masonry and politics.
The litany of St. Germain's miracles--his eternal youthfulness, his incomparable painting of pigments made from the colors magically pulled out of gemstones, his endless wealth, his invisibility, his brilliant sonatas, and inspired violin performances, the flaws removed from the King's diamonds, metals transmuted, languages spoken, friends among the long-dead -- these and many more tales, and a few unflattering references in the shards of eighteenth century diplomacy constitute his whole legend. He is said to have whispered words of unheeded advice to Marie Antoinette. His image remains the centerpiece of newly fabricated mythologies, often of Rosicrucian, Masonic and New Age origin. There remain a number of remarkable contemporary testimonies and unsolved puzzles. As for hard evidence, there is none.
St. Germain has been described as the greatest of European adepts. His prodigious knowledge of history and philosophy was often commented on in his day. In a letter to Frederick II, Voltaire described St. Germain as "the man who never dies."
Both MS 209 and 210 now reside in the Getty Research library, having been sold in the estate auction of Manly Palmer Hall by his lawyers to satisfy debts.
MS 209 has 31 leaves, 4 are blank. 21.0 x 24.4 x 24.4 (triangular)
MS 210 has 24 triangular leaves, 23.7 x 23.7 x 23.5
Mid 18th c. French, blue and gold ink on ruled parchment. Text in cipher with two magical illustrations in gilt and several other colors of ink. MS 209 has 3 illustrations in gilt and other colors of ink. French portions of text in both are in script.
[ Box 35 ]
Ex Dono Sapientissimi Comitis St. Germain Qoi Orbem Terrarum Per Cucurrit. [ ca. 1750 ]
Comte St. Germain. 28.4 x 22 cm. 24 leaves. Illustrations, ink, gilt. Contains translation of Masonic symbols. Triangular book. [210]
Hall (Manly Palmer) Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825Finding aid prepared by Trevor Bond.
The Getty Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
Phone: (310) 440-7390
Fax: (310) 440-7780
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.getty.edu/research/library
©1998 J. Paul Getty Trust.
Descriptive SummaryTitle:
Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825
Collection number:
Accession no. 950053
Collector:
Hall, Manly Palmer, 1901-
Extent:
7.5 linear ft.
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract:
A collection of 243 manuscripts detailing the arts of Alchemy, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, and Masonry, gathered over a lifetime by Many Palmer Hall, author and researcher in the realms of mysticism and the occult and related areas.
Open for use by qualified researchers. Contact the Head of Special Collections, Getty Research Institute for copyright information and permission to publish. Manly Palmer Hall Collection of Alchemical Manuscripts, 1500-1825, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 950053. Acquired in 1995
Trevor Bond processed the collection January 1998 and wrote the finding aid March 1998
224 printed books were transferred to the library on June 6, 1995.
THERE MUST BE ANOTHER BOOK -- In Italian & Latin
by John J. Coughlin » Sun May 16, 2004 2:03 pm
From http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk:
Stacking Code: MS4668
Reference Number: MS.4668
Title: Pseudo-Solomon
Date: c. 1775
Acquisition Purchased: 1933.
AccNo: 66393
Description: Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa'. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawings of magical figures, sigils, talismans, etc. The directions have been translated into Italian, but the prayers and invocations, etc. have been left in Latin. The first 7 pp. contain the 'Tre tavole'. These are described as 'Una per sapere quali sono gli anni climaterici, l'altra per sapere qual pianeta domina ... et l'altra per sapere ... a che ora leva il Sole e quando fara la Luna'. On p. 2 is the Library stamp of 'Comes Hercules Silva' [1756-1840]. Inserted loose in this MS. are 10 leaves (8vo. 19½ × 14½ cm.) containing on the rectos a transcript of a magical MS. in purple ink, written c. 1920 possibly by Lionel Hauser of Paris, though the copy of the 'Clavicula' does not contain his usual press-mark label 'L.H.' with a number. The first leaf is headed: 'Manuscrit sur vélin de forme triangulaire avec figures, prêté par M. Potier avec les caractères ci joint'. Below are rough pen-drawings of the four 'figures'. The next leaf contains a key to the magical cypher-alphabet in which the MS. is written. On the following 8 leaves is the transcript. It is headed (P. 1) 'Ex dono sapientissimi / comitis St. Germain / qui orbem terrarum percucurrit. (P. 2) La magie sainte rvele / à Mole [? Moise] retrouve dans / un monument egipti / en precieusem / ent conservée / en Asie sous / le dvise / d'un / dragon / ailé ....'
Request Request for use in the Library Reference MS.4668 See this in context
Level Item Extent 1 volume Title Pseudo-Solomon Date c. 1775 Description Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa'. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawings of magical figures, sigils, talismans, etc. The directions have been translated into Italian, but the prayers and invocations, etc. have been left in Latin. The first 7 pp. contain the 'Tre tavole'. These are described as 'Una per sapere quali sono gli anni climaterici, l'altra per sapere qual pianeta domina ... et l'altra per sapere ... a che ora leva il Sole e quando fara la Luna'. On p. 2 is the Library stamp of 'Comes Hercules Silva' [1756-1840]. Inserted loose in this MS. are 10 leaves (8vo. 19? × 14? cm.) containing on the rectos a transcript of a magical MS. in purple ink, written c. 1920 possibly by Lionel Hauser of Paris, though the copy of the 'Clavicula' does not contain his usual press-mark label 'L.H.' with a number.
The first leaf is headed: 'Manuscrit sur vélin de forme triangulaire avec figures, prêté par M. Potier avec les caractères ci joint'. Below are rough pen-drawings of the four 'figures'. The next leaf contains a key to the magical cypher-alphabet in which the MS. is written. On the following 8 leaves is the transcript. It is headed (P. 1) 'Ex dono sapientissimi / comitis St. Germain / qui orbem terrarum percucurrit. (P. 2) La magie sainte révelée / à Mole [? Moise] retrouvée dans / un monument egipti / en precieusem / ent conservée / en Asie sous / le dévise / d'un / dragon / ailé ....
' Acquisition Details Purchased 1933. Accession Number 66393 Access Status Open Access Conditions The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. Reproduction Conditions Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner. Language Italian Language Latin Physical Description 96 pp. + 57 ff. folio. 31 × 20 cm. Original boards, worn. Finding Aids Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973). Subject Talismans Subject Magic Subject Jewish Literature
by John J. Coughlin » Sun May 16, 2004 2:03 pm
From http://archives.wellcome.ac.uk:
Stacking Code: MS4668
Reference Number: MS.4668
Title: Pseudo-Solomon
Date: c. 1775
Acquisition Purchased: 1933.
AccNo: 66393
Description: Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa'. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawings of magical figures, sigils, talismans, etc. The directions have been translated into Italian, but the prayers and invocations, etc. have been left in Latin. The first 7 pp. contain the 'Tre tavole'. These are described as 'Una per sapere quali sono gli anni climaterici, l'altra per sapere qual pianeta domina ... et l'altra per sapere ... a che ora leva il Sole e quando fara la Luna'. On p. 2 is the Library stamp of 'Comes Hercules Silva' [1756-1840]. Inserted loose in this MS. are 10 leaves (8vo. 19½ × 14½ cm.) containing on the rectos a transcript of a magical MS. in purple ink, written c. 1920 possibly by Lionel Hauser of Paris, though the copy of the 'Clavicula' does not contain his usual press-mark label 'L.H.' with a number. The first leaf is headed: 'Manuscrit sur vélin de forme triangulaire avec figures, prêté par M. Potier avec les caractères ci joint'. Below are rough pen-drawings of the four 'figures'. The next leaf contains a key to the magical cypher-alphabet in which the MS. is written. On the following 8 leaves is the transcript. It is headed (P. 1) 'Ex dono sapientissimi / comitis St. Germain / qui orbem terrarum percucurrit. (P. 2) La magie sainte rvele / à Mole [? Moise] retrouve dans / un monument egipti / en precieusem / ent conservée / en Asie sous / le dvise / d'un / dragon / ailé ....'
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Level Item Extent 1 volume Title Pseudo-Solomon Date c. 1775 Description Clavicula, in Italian and Latin: preceded by 'Tre tavole di Livio Agrippa'. Illustrated by numerous pen-drawings of magical figures, sigils, talismans, etc. The directions have been translated into Italian, but the prayers and invocations, etc. have been left in Latin. The first 7 pp. contain the 'Tre tavole'. These are described as 'Una per sapere quali sono gli anni climaterici, l'altra per sapere qual pianeta domina ... et l'altra per sapere ... a che ora leva il Sole e quando fara la Luna'. On p. 2 is the Library stamp of 'Comes Hercules Silva' [1756-1840]. Inserted loose in this MS. are 10 leaves (8vo. 19? × 14? cm.) containing on the rectos a transcript of a magical MS. in purple ink, written c. 1920 possibly by Lionel Hauser of Paris, though the copy of the 'Clavicula' does not contain his usual press-mark label 'L.H.' with a number.
The first leaf is headed: 'Manuscrit sur vélin de forme triangulaire avec figures, prêté par M. Potier avec les caractères ci joint'. Below are rough pen-drawings of the four 'figures'. The next leaf contains a key to the magical cypher-alphabet in which the MS. is written. On the following 8 leaves is the transcript. It is headed (P. 1) 'Ex dono sapientissimi / comitis St. Germain / qui orbem terrarum percucurrit. (P. 2) La magie sainte révelée / à Mole [? Moise] retrouvée dans / un monument egipti / en precieusem / ent conservée / en Asie sous / le dévise / d'un / dragon / ailé ....
' Acquisition Details Purchased 1933. Accession Number 66393 Access Status Open Access Conditions The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. Reproduction Conditions Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner. Language Italian Language Latin Physical Description 96 pp. + 57 ff. folio. 31 × 20 cm. Original boards, worn. Finding Aids Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973). Subject Talismans Subject Magic Subject Jewish Literature
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