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Harley MS 2267

Record Id:

040-002048098

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-002048098

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000709.0x000307

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 2267

Title:

A manual of ritual magic

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1v-37v: A manual of ritual magic, copied from another late 16th-century manuscript, including sections for making the 'Pentacle of the Apocalyptic Christ' (f. 1v); amulets for conjuring good and evil angels entitled 'What things are attributed to the planets' (ff. 2r-10v); 'On binding people or things' (f. 10v); 'To make lamens or pentacles To call good spirites' (ff. 11v-15r); 'The devyne names of God per Libros manuscriptos videlicet' (f. 15v); 'The devyne names of God per Cornelium Agrippum' (f. 16r); 'The consecratinge of the ffumygacyons' (f. 16v); 'The Consecracyon of the water' (ff. 16v-17r); 'The Consecratyon of the Oyle' (ff. 17v-18v); 'The consecratyon of the ffyar' (ff. 18v-19r); 'Consecratio Gladij' (ff. 19r-18v); 'Consecratio libri sive pergameni' (ff. 19v-26r); 'The method or order to worke in this arte' (ff. 26r-27v); 'To make a pentacle, table or lamen' (ff. 27v-28r); 'To make pentacles by holy scripture' (f. 28v); 'On pentacles' (ff. 28v-29r); 'Rules for Operating' (ff. 29r-33r); 'A good common figure [for] Any one spirit Baron or any other' (ff. 33v-37v).

Decoration:

Large magical diagrams, circles and squares, with texts in English, Latin, and Hebrew, and symbols, in brown or red ink throughout the manuscript.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-002048098

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 2267 : A manual of ritual magic

Hierarchy:

032-002045828[2269]/040-002048098

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Hebrew
Latin

Scripts:

Hebrew
Latin

Start Date:

1600

End Date:

1600

Date Range:

1600

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 300 x 210 (text space: 265-270 x 150 mm).

Foliation: ff. 39 (+ 4 unfoliated blank paper flyleaves at the beginning + 4 at the end); 5 blank paper leaves between f. 38 and f. 39, only counted in the old foliation; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 1r; the manuscript only features early modern foliation in brown ink throughout, except for the end, where the 5 leaves after f. 38 are not counted in the modern foliation, and the old f. '44' is crossed out with pencil and renumbered as f. 39; this modern (British Museum) foliation is followed here.

Collation: Mounted as quires and single leaves.

Script: 16th-century script.

Binding: British Museum in-house: brown half leather binding with the Harleian armorial bookplate gold-stamped on the outside covers; re-bound on 28 September 1966; the previous binding (blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather) has been pasted on the insides of the upper and lower covers.

Custodial History:

Origin:

Boxgrove, Sussex.

Provenance:

Owen Lording, Protestant parish priest of Boxgrove, Sussex, copied for him in they year 1600 by George Stent, a local notary: according to a note pasted on f. 1r: 'Golde hill in [hampshone] Sussex / Owin Loridnge of Boxgrove disiringe it. February 13, 1600 at the howre of 7 a clocke the afternone beinge friday George Stent present' (see Klaassen, Making Magic (2019), p. 73).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), II (1808), p. 633.

Frank Klaassen, Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic (Philadelphia: The Penssylvania State University Press, 2019), pp. 73-135.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Places:

Boxgrove, England