{"id":1185,"date":"2025-07-03T09:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?page_id=1185"},"modified":"2025-07-03T09:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T09:37:49","slug":"don-karrs-solomonic-magic-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/digital-brilliance.org\/wordpress_V\/?page_id=1185","title":{"rendered":"Don Karr’s Solomonic Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don Karr’s Solomonic Magic<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Liber Salomonis: Cephar Raziel<\/em>, British Library Sloane MS 3826 2r<\/sup>-57r <\/sup>(PDF<\/a>)
Transcribed, annotated and introduced by Don Karr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selections from British Library Sloane MS 3826 57r<\/sup>-88v <\/sup>(PDF<\/a>)
Containing Names<\/em> (ff <\/em>57R<\/sup>-57V<\/sup>);\u00a0 Incipit Canon<\/em>:The rule of the book of consecration, or the manner of working (ff <\/em>58R<\/sup>-60R<\/sup>); Orisons<\/em> (ff<\/em> 60R<\/sup>-65R<\/sup>); Magical directions<\/em> (ff <\/em>65R<\/sup>-83V<\/sup>). Transcribed, edited and introduced by Don Karr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liber Lunae<\/em> and other Selections from British Library Sloane MS 3826 84r<\/sup>-99v <\/sup>(PDF<\/a>)
Containing Liber Lunae<\/em>;\u00a0 Raxhael<\/em>; The Call of Bilgal<\/em>. Transcribed and introduced by Don Karr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selections from British Library Sloane MS 3826 98r-101r (PDF<\/a>)
Containing Raphael<\/em>, The Call of Bilgal<\/em>, An Experiment for a Fairy<\/em>, Beleemus De imaginabus<\/em>. Transcribed\/edited by Don Karr.
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The Study of Solomonic Magic in English by Don Karr (PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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general introduction to 3826 [Don Karr 2007]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

British Library MS Sloane 3826 is an English translation of a magical collection, likely compiled under the direction of Alfonso X (13th<\/sup> century). In spite of the first section\u2019s referring to itself as \u201cCephar Raziel,\u201d the texts gathered in 3826 are more akin to the Christian grimoires known as the \u201cSolomonic cycle\u201d (e.g.<\/em>, the Key of Solomon<\/em>, the Sworn Book of Honorius<\/em>) than to Sefer Raziel<\/em>, the medieval compendium of Jewish folk magic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there is a preponderance of Jewish elements, there is next to nothing of kabbalah<\/em> in 3826, which is representative of the medieval Christian grimoire tradition, which did borrow bits from kabbalah<\/em>, albeit in corrupt\u2014if not purposely altered\u2014form. In our text, even knowledge of basic Hebrew is lacking: on pages 26r<\/sup>-26v<\/sup>, Raziel is said to have \u201cputt in this booke 22 elements of great vertue that is 22 letters or figures wch<\/sup> the sonnes of Adam might not excuse.\u201d The reference here is to the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet; however, the letter peh <\/em>is given twice, whereas the letter shin<\/em> is not given at all. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Page updated 30th January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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