Janus: Book of Magic

Manuscripts contains:
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MS Add.3465	University of Cambridge Patent to Hugh Martin to be Stationer and Printer
MS Add.3466	Samuel Dale: Journeys to Cambridge
MS Add.3470	Henry de Kirkestede: Catalogus Scriptorum Ecclesie
MS Add.35	Catechism
MS Add.3543	Alexius Pedemontanus: Secrets
MS Add.3544	Book of Magic
MS Add.3545-3555	Sir Richard Colt Hoare: Journals of tours in Italy and Europe
MS Add.3556	Integer Commentarius...in Petronii Arbitri Satiricon Ineditus
MS Add.3561	Text of Antonius Arkudius
MS Add.3562	Chesterton, Cambridgeshire: two terriers
MS Add.3563	Ickleton, Cambridgeshire: manor of Lymbury, recovery in court baron
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Book of Magic

Title	Book of Magic
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.3544
Covering Dates	1560 (Circa)
Extent and Medium	1 volume; paper
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

Collection of magical recipes and treatises, with diagrams, magic circles, and other illustrations.

A full list of the recipes is available. Pp. 166-8: index in main hand. Second hand, resembling that of Ff.4.12 and Ff.4.13, appears at pp. 79-81, 120-1. Pp. 154-65 are in a third hand, of rather earlier appearance.

Last leaf partly torn away; on recto of surviving portion (p. 170) is writing in another hand.

pp. 53, 122-53: blank.

Purchased from Sydney V. Galloway, Jan. 1899.

Access and Use

In English and Latin

Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, Book of Magic, MS Add.3544

Further information

The original cover, consisting of two incomplete leaves from a Gradual, is now Add. 4435 (17).

Microfilm available

Index Terms

Magic

Recipes

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