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Book of Magic

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.3544

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates

  • Creation: 1560 (Circa)

Conditions Governing Access

Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 volume(s) (1 volume paper) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Purchased from Sydney V. Galloway, Jan. 1899.

Existence and Location of Copies

Microfilm available

Related Materials

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

Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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