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Published in 1620, the Magical Calendar contains tables of correspondences arranged by number from one to twelve. They are based in part on extensive tables in Agrippa, book 2, chapters 4-14 but go well beyond anything in Agrippa, especially sigils. The engraving was executed by the brilliant Johannes Theodorus de Bry who illustrated other important occult works such as those of Robert Fludd. The author was Johann Baptista Großchedel. Carlos Gilly has identified the original manuscript on which the printed Magical Calendar was based as British Library manuscript Harley 3420. (Gilly, Carlos, "The rediscovery of the original of Großchedel's Calendarium Naturale Magicum Perpetuum," in Carlos Gilly, Cis van Heertum (ed.) Magia, Alchimia, Scienza Dal '400 al '700. L'influsso di Ermete Trismegisto Centro Di: 2 vols. Firence, 2002, vol. 1 pp. 310-317. I am indebted to Rafal Prinke for bringing this to my attention.)
The Harley manuscript adds some very interesting details missing from the engraving. For one thing, the 8 tables (or seals) of the Fathers (one of which is the famous seal of Solomon, used as the Table of Practice in Theurgia Goetia) have particular virtues ascribed to them. So for example, Solomon's is for Wisdom, Jeremiah's for visions, Ezechiel's for health, etc. The "Sigilla Decem Nomina Dei Principalia Complectentia" also have more detail than in the engraving.
Another things that was not clear to me from the engraving is that the sigils and images of the planets are 2 separate sets. Both sets are used on the Ars Paulina table of practise.
In addition to the Lesser Key texts mentioned above, at least two other grimoires -- Abognazar and Janua Magicae Reserata -- depend heavily on the Magical Calendar. In my research on esoterica, I find myself constantly referring to this volume.
For more information on this extraordinary document, see the
edition by Adam McLean.
Numerorum Magica
Ab
Unitate Usque ad DVODENARIVM
Collecta
Singulari Industria, compilatione Diversa,
A
Joanne Baptista Grosschedelio Equite Romano:
magno labore, et investigatione sibi suisque
ab Aicha: Philomago, Lucisque &
Gratiæ, & Naturæ indagatori
Vigilantissimo
Anno
1614
[Compare with Agrippa, OP2.7.]
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| [Four Elements] | Fire | Air | Water | Earth |
| [Governors of the Elements] | Seraph | Cherub | Tharsis | Ariel |
| [Archangels] | Raphael | Michael | Gabriel | Uriel |
| [Four Winds] | Eurus | Zephirus | Aquilo | Auster |
| [Cardinal directions] | East | West | North | South |
| [Zodiacal attributions] | Aries, Leo, Saggitarius | Gemini, Leo, Aquarius | Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces | Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn |
| [Elemental Qualities] | Lumen (Light) | Diaphanum (Transparent) | Agilitas (Motile) | Sodalitas (Solid) |
| [Elements of Mankind] | Mens (Mind) | Spiritus (Spirit) | Anima (Soul) | Corpus (Body) |
| [Powers of the Soul] | Intellectus (Intellect) | Ratio (Reason) | Phantasia (Imagination) | Sensus (Perception) |
| [Principal spirits in the four parts of the world] | Bael | Moymon | Poymon | Egin |
[Compare with Heptameron.]
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[From Harl. 3420, 40v-41r.]
| Adam. Intelligence | Moses. Miracles | Elias. Divine Wisdom | Joshua. Prophecy |
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| Ezechiel. Health | Daniel. Interp. dreams | Solomon. Wisdom | Jeremiah. Visions |
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(Compare Agrippa, OP2.13.)
[Sigils have 6, 5, 8, 3, 9, 1, 7, 5, 2, 4 sides respectively.]
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