Final section of the treasure-huntin', crystal-gazin', spirit-summonin', fairy-pesterin' compendium that makes up BL Sloane MS. 3824 fol. 89-120 has now been re-typeset. The title of this post alludes to figures of magic circles on fol. 116v / 117r, to be used for summoning a set of seven "Regall Spirits," Macharioth Rex, Isus Rex, Jonathon Rex, Acharon (also written Acheron) Rex, Magoth Rex, Achachardus Rex and Ysquy (or Isquy) Rex, concerning whom no other information is given save the names of their "Familiars": around the borders of three we find the phrase "Neon Dominus Deus Sabaoth" (others having "Neon Hagios Agla Messias," "Neon Adonay Sabaoth Tetragrammaton," "Neon Ost Theon Sother Ost Mother Emanual Neon Sabaoth," and the seventh only has two crosses in the border).
Now to make a start on "Trithemius Redivivus" and wonder how much the redactor of that actually understood the Steganographia.
EDIT: a similar set of figures to those mentioned, although none of them completely identical to those in Sloane 3824, appear in the Folger "Book of Magic," pp. 148-151. Most have "Neon" (one "Noen") in the border text. An earlier version of the "Experiment of the spirit Birto" also appears in V.b. 26, p. 164: in that, the elaborate figure of the dragon or wyvern is seemingly meant to represent the spirit itself and there is no instruction to draw the thing as part of the process.
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