TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kieckhefer,Richard
TI  - Forbidden rites: a necromancer's manual of the fifteenth century 
T2  - Magic in history
SN  - 9780271041728
AV  - BF1593 .K525 1998
U1  - 133.4/3 21
PY  - 1998///
CY  - University Park, Pa.
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
KW  - Manuscript
KW  - Clm 849
KW  - Manuscrit
KW  - clm 849
KW  - München
KW  - swd
KW  - Magic
KW  - History
KW  - Demonology
KW  - Magie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Démonologie
KW  - fast
KW  - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Parapsychology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-379) and index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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
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