NOW AVAILABLE John Dee's Five Books of Mystery : Original Sourcebook of Enochian Magic Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser; ISBN: 1578631785; (January 2003)

Book announcement My new book The Lesser Key of Solomon is now available in bookstores. The printed edition includes corrections, critical apparatus, new expanded introduction, appendices, index, and examples of drawings (including notae) from other manuscripts and printed sources. The publisher, Red Wheel/Weiser, did a fantastic job on this edition, with high quality embossed binding and alkaline paper. Hardcover - 320 pages (July 17, 2001); ISBN: 157863220X Available from Magus Books and other book sellers.

• Introduction
• Preface from Harley manuscript 6483: The definition of magic.
• Of the Arte Goetia
• The Art Theurgia Goetia
• The Art Pauline of King Salomon
• Salomon's Almadel Art
• Ars Notoria: The Notary Art of Salomon
• Appendix 1: Addenda found in Sloane 2731 and 3648 relating to some of the magical diagrams
• Appendix 2: Johann Weyer's Pseudomonarchia daemonum (Latin with English translation)
• Appendix 3: Comparison of Goetia with Weyer
• Appendix 4: Other examples of some of the drawings
• Index

Corrections

Since publication the following errors have been noticed:

Page:
22, l. 7, and p. 243, l. 18	"He appeareth when the Sun is in some of the Southern signs, in a human shape."	Add footnote: Clm 849 reads "Apparet in signo medici cum suscipit figuram humanam; [est] doctor opti[m]us mulierum, et facit ardere in amorem virorum" (He appears in the form of a doctor (medici, not meridii=southern as in Weyer) when he takes on a human form. He is a most excellent doctor of women, and he makes them burn with love for men.) For text see Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites (University Park Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998, pp. 291-293.)
53, l. 11	thou aft	should read: thou art
59, l. 1	PART I: OF THE ARTE GOETIA	should read: PART II: THE ART THEURGIA GOETIA
114, l. 15		Add the following drawing:
130, l. 17	signals	should read: signall [i.e. extraordinary]
134, l. 6	Panae1	should read: Panael
134, l. 9	Mechie1	should read: Mechiel

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