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Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century
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Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century
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Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century
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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
and more variety than the
ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.