Don't know when this happened, but I just discovered that the Theurgia-Goetia, On the Invocation of Angels and Longobardus have been pulled by Scribd "at the request of the rightsholder(s)." Since these are typesets and do not directly reproduce images of the MSS. on which they were based, I doubt the "rightsholder(s)" in question were the British Library. Probably some copyright troll.
I thought I'd seen the last of this crap years ago. I've mailed Scribd's copyright line contesting the removal. In the meantime, it turns out On the Invocation of Angels has been uploaded to the Internet Archive, and Theurgia-Goëtia can be found on the "PDFCoffee" site (this latter site is an abomination, but not a complete scam: the file can be downloaded, though the web-viewer refuses to display it). The only copy of Longobardus I found online was on a semi-private forum and doesn't appear to be viewable or downloadable by non forum members.
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