Errata et corrigenda

Just uploaded an update to the 4th Book & Heptameron.  This fixes multiple errors in editorial material, trims some superfluous text in the bibliography, expands some notes and expands the "Testimonia" with Wier's denunciation of the Liber Quartus from the second and subsequent editions (not the first, as I incorrectly stated in the previous release) of De præstigiis dæmonum et incantionibus ac veneficiis and a brief excerpt from Thomas Willard's 2017 essay "How magical was Renaissance Magic?" touching on the Fourth Book.  There are still some minor tweaks that need to be made and a needlessly hostile passage that could use toning down / recasting.

I'm not planning on incorporating the material in the previous post into the Mathers-Crowley Goëtia, save for a general note referencing the Folger Offices of the Spirits.

In addition to the four BL Lemegeton MSS., a codex of similar content to Sloane MS. 2731 was in the possession of E.M. Butler, who reproduced one page from it as Plate II of her Ritual Magic (1949).  It is unclear if this was the same "private codex" mentioned by Mathers and cited as the source for his figure of the Circle.  Probably it is still in a private collection somewhere.

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The edition of Agrippa's Opera in Duos Tomos (which I suspect, though this is on the basis of a single typo, was the one used by Robert Turner), with the pillars & crown device and motto Firmant consilium pietas politia coronam (also read Consilium, pietas et politia coronam firmant which means the same thing but flows a little better), which device (as I remarked in a previous post) was used ca. 1600 by Cornelius Sutor of Oberursel, is attributed by some bibliographers to Eberhard Zetzner of Strasburg, "ca. 1630."  Eberhard, it would seem, inherited his father's printing business in 1616; a German catalogue of printer's devices shows this among those used by E. Zetzner (Table LI & facing text).  I haven't so far managed to find anything on the Zetzner imprint with this device so far, but that doesn't mean much as I've not really looked very thoroughly (as in, ran a search -- inpublisher:"Zetzner" -- on Google Books).

What I *did* find was this -- a per Beringos fratres edition of an "Appendix Apologeticus" to a "Lyon" edition of Agrippa's Opera in duos tomos, with the date 1605 and the distinctive device of Lazarus Zetzner (head & shoulders of Minerva on plinth with motto SCIENTIA IMMUTABILIS).  This suggests Zetzner was responsible for the "1600" edition.  Since Zetzner senior worked with Sutor prior to relocating to Strasburg (e.g. on the original three-volume edition of Theatrum Chemicum), it is within the bounds of possibility that his heirs wound up with Sutor's device.

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Pseudo-Agrippa's ritual for invocation of spirits of the middle / terrestrial order (p. 38 of CP edition, p. 61 ed. 1559, p. 68 in Turner, 1655) looks to be an ancestor of the procedure, mocked by A. E. Waite in Book of Ceremonial Magic (p. 302) in the Grimorium Verum (also the "1670" editions of the Grimoire of Honorius), "Pour faire venir trois demoiselles ou trois messieurs dans sa chamber après souper."

EDIT: actually, probably not.  While looking up some stuff in connection with some groups of 7 fairies cited in the Folger "Book of Magic" (where they appear with their queen, tacked on to the end of a Liber Officiorum version), Sloane 3851 (which incidentally contains English translations of the Heptameron and Liber Quartus independent from, and quite plausibly pre-dating, Turner's) and Folger X.d 234, turned up references to similar things in French folk tradition going back long prior to Agrippa's time (see for example K. M. Briggs, "Some Seventeenth-Century Books of Magic," published in Folklore in 1953; also the writings of Dan Harms concerning the "Table Ritual").  BTW, before attempting the procedure from Folger X.d 234, bear in mind that the 7 sisters were probably originally disease demons, as a very similar set of names is cited in 11th-century charms against fever.

Also, the same section of the Liber Quartus depends more heavily on OP III.32 than III.16, from which much of it is slightly paraphrased.

Contrary to my statement in a previous post, Joseph Peterson did remark on the citation in the printed Ars Notoria of Lemegeton as the name of a Solomonic text, in a set of corrections posted online after the print edition of the Lemegeton went to press.