Livre des Esperitz
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The Book of Spirits
A 15th-c. French catalogue, one of the direct medieval ancestors of the Ars Goetia: the 3 Chiefs (Lucifer/Beelzebub/Satan) + the 4 cardinal kings + ~45 offices already recognisable as Bael, Agares, Barbatos, Asmoday, Berith, Foras, Malphas… Transcribed from the Old French and translated into ES/EN, facsimile alongside.
Details
| Source | Anonymous, Old French, 15th c. |
|---|---|
| Manuscript | Trinity College Cambridge, MS O.8.29, ff.179r–182v |
| Century | XV |
| Original language | Old French |
| Translations | Spanish, English |
| Pages | 8 folios |
| Licence | Text public domain; images CC BY-NC |
How we make it
Our own transcription from the public-domain facsimile. Abbreviations are expanded in [brackets] and doubtful readings marked [?]; where the original is illegible, we say so. We copy no copyrighted modern edition. Our transcription and translation are released under CC-BY 4.0.
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