What you ask of it
Has power over riches: he can find treasures and gives great wealth, for he is much loved by Lucifer.
Cross-grimoire link. Clauneck is the only one of Syrach’s eighteen to recur outside the De Secretis lineage: as Claunth in the Key of Solomon (18th c.) and with his own entry in Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal (19th c.). He is not in the Ars Goetia.
Ancient forms
Claunt · Claunth · Clahunt · Claunch
First documented attestation
In the De Secretis manuscripts (Clavicula Salomonis de secretis, 17th c. — Dresden N.91, Rps 3352 II, Venice b.93) as «Claunt», with its power and its drawn character. This is the stratum preceding the printed Verum.
Power in the manuscript (De Secretis, Latin)
«Primo Claunth in Divitias, quas dare et tollere potest.»
De Secretis · SLUB Dresden, Mscr.Dresd.N.91 · p.20 (ms.12)
This same character is also drawn (in red and green ink) in L'Art Magique (Wellcome MS.983, ~1709), the French witness closest to the printed Verum — public domain.
The character in the manuscript (colour)
How it is invoked (De Secretis, 17th c.)
To have coins whenever desired: decide how many are wanted and whether they are copper, gold, silver, or bronze; cut that number of circles from double parchment, draw the sign of the coin on both sides, trace a circle on a board, and make as many characters of Claunth as there are coins; set the parchment coins upright in a cylinder and recite the carmen 'Claunth feras catebam / Lignugoth nemoheranot agan / Seruma serunt erithren / Clebanoth nechir Trebien'; sleep for one hour without thinking about money, and on waking find real coins.
De Secretis · Mscr.Dresd.N.91 · p.37-38 (ms.29-30)
Documentary comparison: this coin operation comes from De Secretis (Mscr.Dresd.N.91, PDF pp. 37–38; manuscript pp. 29–30). The printed Grimorium Verum’s general Book III procedure mentions Scirlin, while Syrach is a rubric for the eighteen spirits; the text does not demonstrate a specific Scirlin → Syrach → Clauneck ritual sequence. The coin operation is described as an operation, not a pact. L’Art Magique preserves a character of Clauneck, but it has not been used to attribute this coin operation.
In our library · the printed Verum
The printed Grimorium Verum (Plaingière ed., 18th c.) names Clauneck among the eighteen spirits under Duke Syrach and sets out its office. Read it with the facsimile in our edition.
Sources
Offices transcribed by us from L'Art Magique (Wellcome MS.983, ca. 1709, public domain) and collated with the 17th-c. De Secretis manuscripts. Historical, educational material.
grimorium.lat · Grimorium Verum