Renaissance magic
Arbatel of Magic
An unusually restrained Protestant-era grimoire, centred on the seven Olympic planetary spirits.
- Dates
- 1575
- Dating
- tradition or corpus
The life
Short, printed rather than circulated in manuscript, and far more concerned with piety and moderation than most of what surrounds it.
Place in the tradition
It shows that the grimoire form could be sober, which the rest of the tradition rarely bothers to demonstrate.
a note on the record
History and later legend
Anonymous. Only the first of its promised nine parts survives, or was ever written.
the written record
Principal works
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1575
Arbatel of Magic
The seven Olympic spirits, their seals and their governance of historical periods, framed with unusual restraint.