Book of Magic

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 12 MS Add.3544
  • Dates of Creation
      1560 (Circa)
  • Language of Material
      English .
  • Physical Description
      1 volume(s) 1 volume paper paper

Scope and Content

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.

Access Information

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Acquisition Information

Purchased from Sydney V. Galloway, Jan. 1899.

Other Finding Aids

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Alternative Form Available

Microfilm available

Related Material

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

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