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Title

Clavicula Salomonis Regis :

Authors

• Colorni, Abraham, approximately 1530-
• Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner
• Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028960)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1673
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962943583503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908145839
• https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/ https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qr4nr7q https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000297

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with transliterated Hebrew words

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Summary

18th-century Latin copy of the Key of Solomon, a 14th- or 15th-century magical handbook which includes instructions on subjects such as the conjuration of spirits (f. 11r), enchanting a piece of fruit with a love charm (f. 31v), extracting bat's blood (f. 104v), the preparation of ink, paper or parchment for magical practices (f. 105r), and the use of knives, swords, and wands (f. 96v). The text is divided into two books and contains a complete list of contents for each book (f. iii recto, 113r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. ii recto).
   

Extent

121 leaves : 223 x 164 mm bound to 233 x 170 mm

Foliation

Paper, 121; [iv], 1-5, 7-37, [ii], 38-81, [i], 82-114; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords lower right corners. Folio 6 has been torn out resulting in a loss of text.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary quarter leather with the remains of silk ties.

Decoration

Decorated title pages at the beginning of each book with yellow ink wash and an engraved frontispiece from an unidentified printed work pasted in (f. ii recto, 82r); 43 pen and ink pentacles with various magical symbols, words, and figures pasted onto red or yellow ink-washed pages; diagram of blades, lances, and wands to be used in ritual (f. 99r); partially ruled in red ink (f. 1r-28r).

Script

Written in a cursive script by at least two hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Charles Rainsford (British army officer, fellow of the Royal Society, and alchemist); bequeathed by Rainsford to Hugh Percy, Second Duke of Northumberland.
   
• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 584, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamps throughout).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
   

Subjects topical

• Magic--Early works to 1800
• Magic
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Occultism

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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