a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century Kieckhefer, Richard. creator text bibliography History. Electronic books. pau University Park, Pa Pennsylvania State University Press 1998 monographic eng lat preservation access 1 online resource (384 pages) : illustrations. 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. Richard Kieckhefer. Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-379) and index. Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL 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 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL e-gw--- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. Clm 849. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. clm 849. München Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 849 Magic History Demonology History Magie Histoire Démonologie Histoire Demonology Magic BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / General BF1593 .K525 1998 133.4/3 LB 60000 Kieckhefer, Richard. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998 (DLC) 97026745 (OCoLC)37341265 9780271041728 0271041722 MWT11611334 11611334 Midwest Tape, LLC http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1798326 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1798326 Use copy MiAaHDL OCLCE 101117 20200709060612.0 ocn681964545 eng