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Magic

 Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus

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 Fonds

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: 1560 (Circa)
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