Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Clavicola magica, e cabalistica

Other related names

• Agrippa von Nettesheim, Heinrich Cornelius, 1486?-1535, translator

Call number

Ms. Codex 515
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580962
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580962

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian, with some formulas in Latin

Origin

Date

17--

Place

Italy

Summary

Cabalistic text.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from supplement to Zacour-Hirsch: La Clavicola magica, e cabalistica del Savio Re Salamone, tradota dal testo original ebraico in latino dal virtuoso negromante Cornelio Agrippa, e posta in francese dal Rabino Nazar, capo della società della Grande Cabala della città di Arle, ove è trata la maniera di fare delli talismani, pentacoli, figure, carateri magici, e patti per le invocationi, congiurazioni, et apparizioni di spiriti seguendo le scongiure, il tutto con esatezza copiato dal originale che viene conservato nella Biblioteca dell'imperatore, portata de Gierusaleme.
   

Extent

43 leaves : 284 x 202 mm. bound to 303 x 215 mm

Foliation

Paper i (modern paper) + 43 + i (modern paper); [ii], 1-26, 39-72, 77-86, [ii], 179-188, [ii], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [ii, 1-84], modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. References in this record are to the contemporary pagination.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards.

Decoration

Illustrated with full page drawings of pentacles (p. 19, 24, 39, 40).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with p. 179-188 in a second considerably later hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, 1946.
   

Subjects topical

• Cabala--Early works to 1800
• Jewish magic--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Manuscripts, Italian--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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  URL

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Decorations

• 19 — Diagram, p. 19
• 24 — Diagram, p. 24