• Grimoire, 18th century

Language:

• Italian
• Latin

Call number:

• C0938 no. 822

Extent:

• Paper; 1 volume 15 x 21.4 cm (20 leaves)

Format:

• Manuscript

Type:

• Manuscripts
• Sources

Subject:

• Occultism—History—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Alchemy—History—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Astrology—History—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Divination—History—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Magic—History—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Grimoires—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Demonology—Italy—18th century—Sources
• Manuscripts—18th century

Title sort:

• Grimoire, 18th century

Created:

• 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z/1799-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date:

• 18th century

Collections:

• Incunabula at Princeton
• Selections from the Near East Collections
• Digitized Manuscripts
• Patron Requests
• Treasures of Rare Book Division

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/r781wr486

Range label:

• Logical

Abstract:

• Occult compendium with rituals, recipes, and sections on alchemy, astrology, and demonology. The text also includes the Virtutes Psalmorum Regis David, which is a series of seventy-one divinatory precepts that appear after the first verse of the psalms to avoid censorship. Several related texts have been added to this, including studies of the formula "abracadabra," seal formed from Hebrew characters, the Celestial alphabet, the alphabet of Malachi, the Tetragrammaton, Hydromantia, and a series of prophecies of future events that were supposed to occur between 1740 and 1990. There is also a diagram of the "hours of the planets" near the end. This manuscript was most likely written by an anonymous occult practioner for their own use.

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/99111077933506421

Binding note:

• Stitched into contemporary pink paper binding.

Source acquisition:

• Purchase, 2018 [AM 2019-65].

Location:

• HSVM C0938 no. 822