![]() 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. ![]() Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, it is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. "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. A significant work on mediaeval magic, focussing on a little-known handbook from the late Middle Ages in the collection of the Bavarian State Library in Munich. ![]() University Park PA: The Pennsylvanian State University Press, 1998. ![]() ![]() A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Magic in History series) ![]()
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