bodleianlibs:The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th centuryThis collection of texts on magic and
bodleianlibs:The Rawlinson necromantic manuscript, 15th centuryThis collection of texts on magic and fortune-telling - popularly known as the Rawlinson necromantic manuscript - is written in Latin and Middle English. It contains spells, conjurations, invocations and ‘experimenta’ (true experiences) of angels.The two devices shown above are sigils, and pentagrams such as the one on the left have long been accredited with esoteric powers. The ancient Greeks saw in them a demonstration of mathematical perfection, while medieval Christians saw in them an image of the five wounds of Christ, while many now see it as an occult sign used by practitioners of magic to invoke both heavenly and diabolic spirits.And check out that Hebrew! (Under the hexagram, and above the pentagram to the right). It’s the Tetragrammaton, in the kind of corrupted pseudo-Hebrew letters common for early modern Christian Hebraists. -- source link
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