Plodding on with "Invocation of Angels" & have updated the incomplete preliminary version on Scribd. Currently have a mostly complete, though not entirely satisfactory, typeset of the theoretical section of the Janua as well as the introduction to the practical part, preliminary prayer and "First Key"; Clavicula Tabularum Enochi is still missing most of the conjurations of MOR and OIP, although barring minor verbal variations these just change the names and references to directions of those for ORO and MPH. Also the PDF bookmarks are a mess, being just whatever the Word plugin automatically generated from headings in the document.
Still needs a bibliography and general introduction. Also to concoct some excuses for why "Operations of the Angles of the Air," addressed to the Demon Kings of the quarters and their minions, is in a book titled On the Invocation of Angels, beyond simply the fact of its being bracketed under that heading in the BL catalogue entry for Sloane MS. 3821.
UPDATE: All of the first set of conjurations ("Practice of the Tables") of Clavicula Tabularum Enochi now done: a bit over halfway through the "Celestial Keys" of the Janua although the text is currently somewhat Frankensteined and certainly not satisfactory as a scholarly edition: owing to the primary set of images I'm working from being nearly or completely unreadable in places (typically the bottom half of each page of the MS: possibly the codex got water damaged at some point in its history resulting in ink fading to the point where it was below the threshold to actually show up in those 1-bit scans), text has been reconstructed in places by a level of copying and pasting (since large chunks of the Keys are repeated with only the hierarchical names changes and other minor verbal variations) and cross-referencing the text in Sloane 3628, of which I have legible images (this has variations in spelling, punctuation & capitalisation and omits the "Replications" but on a word-for-word level is very close, if not identical, to the 3825 copy).
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