Details

Subject(s)

• Occultism—History—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Alchemy—History—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Astrology—History—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Divination—History—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Magic—History—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Grimoires—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]
• Demonology—Italy—18th century—Sources [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Manuscripts—18th century [Browse]

Compiled/​Created

18th century

Summary note

Occult compendium with rituals, recipes, and sections on alchemy, astrology, and demonology. The text also includes the Virtutes Psalmorum Regis David, which is a series of seventy-one divinatory precepts that appear after the first verse of the psalms to avoid censorship. Several related texts have been added to this, including studies of the formula "abracadabra," seal formed from Hebrew characters, the Celestial alphabet, the alphabet of Malachi, the Tetragrammaton, Hydromantia, and a series of prophecies of future events that were supposed to occur between 1740 and 1990. There is also a diagram of the "hours of the planets" near the end. This manuscript was most likely written by an anonymous occult practioner for their own use.

Binding note

Stitched into contemporary pink paper binding.

Source acquisition

Purchase, 2018 [AM 2019-65].

OCLC

1340471968

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