ISBN10: 0271017511, ISBN13: 9780271017518, [publisher: Penn State University Press 1998-09-15, University Park] Softcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1998]

Penn State Press, Date: 1998-02-01. Paperback. Used:Good. 1998. Penn State Press ISBN 0271017511 9780271017518 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. 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 Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light. ISBN 0271017511 9780271017518 [GB]

University Park Penn State University Press 1998 Trade paperback New in new dust jacket.

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, Date: 1998. Paperback. New. fourth printing edition. 384 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. 1998. Pennsylvania State Univ Pr ISBN 0271017511 9780271017518 [GB]