Of Keys and Gates (9)

Finished working over the Janua seals.  Decided to restore the Hebrew text that was omitted in the Sloane 3825 copy (the names of the Sephiroth & names of God corresponding, save for no. 2 which just had a single yod because there was no room for anything else in the centre of the pentagram at the size the thing was engraved -- less than 2cm across).

Some of the Latin mottos were abbreviated for space reasons in the printed Calendarium (the entire set of figures -- 20 circles all told -- were printed in a single row across the page, some 18" across including a column of text at left and right, and there was a limit to how much text even a legendary engraver like Matthäus Merian could physically fit in those designs).  The Sloane 3825 Janua, unsurprisingly, generally agrees with the print edition (some errors have been fixed and some introduced).

In the latest revision, full text has been restored for most, based on the images of the MS. posted at Twilight Grotto.

Some other minor alterations have been made for style & readability (e.g. having the things in the same typefaces I used in the main text).

The figure on the seal of Netzach was a heptagon in the printed Calendarium but turned into an octagon in the Sloane 3825 Janua, either in error or through laziness (constructing a regular heptagon by hand with compass and ruler is non-straightforward compared to drawing an octagon).  In the MS. one of the sides had a 7-pointed star instead.

The character for Geburah in the MS. is 9-angled; in this instance I went with the printed Calendarium.

I'm not sure I can face going over this lot again to make capitalisation consistent right now, though.

Variations in the names of the Angels from the printed Janua are retained: Großchedel used the Agrippa arrangement (the table does include, in its scale of No. 7, the characters of the Angels from the Heptameron, with Michael referred to Mercury, Anael to Sol and Raphael to Venus (the latter switch was an error by Merian, per Peterson -- see page already linked -- the MS. has them the other way round)).

I'm also not entirely sure what Großchedel's basis for assigning different geometric figures to the ten points of the scale was, in any case.  Only one matches the key scale number, and the circle for Sol and vesica / doubled crescent for Yesod / Luna are understandable.  The others, though, have no clear pattern.