I have a copy of Claire Fanger's book, _Conjuring Spirits_ (Sutton press
in England, Penn State here, part of a new series of magic books edited
by Richard Kieckhefer, one of which is his own _Forbidden Rites_).
Fanger's is a collection of fascinating essays, some dealing with newly
discovered manuscripts. Lots of primary source texts explicated that you
won't find elsewhere and some nice (black and white) photos. The essays
are:
Frank Klaasen, English Manuscripts of Magic 1300-1500: A Preliminary
Survey
Juris Likaka, The Book of Angels, Rings, Characters and Images of
the Planets: Attributed to Osbern Bokenham
John B. Friedman, Safe Magic and Invisible Writing in the Secretum
Philosophorum
Elizabeth I. Wade, A Fragmentary German Divination Device: Medieval
Analogues and Pseudo-Lulluian Tradition
Michael Camille, Visual Art in Two Manuscripts of the Ars Notoria
Robert Mathiesen, A Thirteenth-Century Ritual to Attain the Beatific
Vision from the Sworn Book of Honorius of Thebes
Nicholas Watson, John the Monk's Book of Visions of the Blessed and
Undefiled Virgin Mary, Mother of God: Two Versions of a Newly Discovered
Ritual Magic Text
Claire Fanger, Plundering the Egyptian Treasure: John the Monk's
Book of Visions and its Relation to the Ars Notoria of Solomon
Richard Kieckhefer, The Devil's Contemplatives: The Liber Iuratus,
the Liber Visionum and the Christian Appropriation of Jewish Occultism
--
Dr. Karen Jolly
Associate Professor, History
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
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http://www2.hawaii.edu/~kjolly
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