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Title

Les clavicules de Salomon

Other related names

• Solomon, King of Israel, attributed name

Call number

Ms. Codex 1054
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4072571
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4072571

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

French

Origin

Date

ca. 1700?

Place

France

Summary

Magical text attributed to King Solomon describing a method of summoning and commanding angels (each represented by a planet) by drawing pentacles and placing sacred objects. The text includes tables for planetary hours, colors associated with each planet, names of angels, and symbols for the planets, as well as a few ink drawings of instruments such as a sword and a cup. The unusual small, horizontal format may be due to the esoteric or clandestine nature of the text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• This manuscript has a companion manuscript, cataloged as Ms. Codex 1055.
   
• Incipit:: Mon fils Roboam: come de toutes les sciences, il n'y en a point de plus naturelle et de plus utile que la connaissance de mouvemens celestes ... (f. 1r).
   

Extent

46 leaves : 35 x 240 mm. bound to 50 x 240 mm

Collation

Paper, 46; [1-46]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Single gathering of 46 leaves, with three leaves in the front and two at the end detached.

Support

Paper

Binding

Parchment, probably modern.

Layout

Text pages written in 8 lines, occasionally in two columns.

Decoration

Ink drawings of instruments (f. 12r-13r).

Script

Written in a cursive script in the same hand as Ms. Codex 1055.

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures (Chicago), 2001.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Astrology--Early works to 1800
• Magic--Early works to 1800
• Occultism--Early works to 1900

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, French--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 5v — Table, f. 5v
• fol. 6r — Table, f. 6r
• fol. 6v — Table, f. 6v
• fol. 7r — Table, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Table, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Table, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Table, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Table, f. 9r
• fol. 12r — Drawing, Swords, f. 12r
• fol. 12v — Drawing, Instruments, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Drawing, Instruments, f. 13r