Contains general surveys and specific analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by scholars in a variety of disciplines. Topics covered include the "Sworn Book of Honorius", images in "Ars Notoria" manuscripts, the "Secretum Philosophorum", the "Liber Visionum" and Lullian divination. The work also contains Juris Lidaka's edition of the "Liber de Angelis" and an overview of late medieval magical texts, both "angelic" and "demonic", and offers insights into the place of magic in the medieval age.
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Contains general surveys and specific analyses of magical texts and manuscripts by scholars in a variety of disciplines. Topics covered include the "Sworn Book of Honorius", images in "Ars Notoria" manuscripts, the "Secretum Philosophorum", the "Liber Visionum" and Lullian divination. The work also contains Juris Lidaka's edition of the "Liber de Angelis" and an overview of late medieval magical texts, both "angelic" and "demonic", and offers insights into the place of magic in the medieval age.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0750913819. Inscription; lightly crimped corner, otherwise text clean and tight; Magic In History; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 284 pages.
