Solomonic Magic

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

A Note on Hebrew Transliteration

Part 1 Methodology

1 Philology

 1 Genes and Scale Shifting

 2 Textual Networks

2 Solomonic Magic: A Term in Flux or a Distinct Tradition?

 1 Defining through Polemical Discourses

 2 The Anatomical Anomaly of “Solomonic Magic”

3 From Micro(s) to Macro: Multi-Sources and Scribal Strategies

 1 Practitioners’ Confessions

 2 Genesis Narratives

Part 1: Summary

Part 2 Texts

Clusters and Nodes: A Brief Introduction

4 Liber Bileth (LB)

 1 Liber Bileth: Fusing Two Texts into One

 2 The Book of Spirits

 3 The Marvelous Ring

 4 Liber Bileth: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis

5 Clavicula Salomonis (CS)

 1 Italian and Latin Claviculae: The Clavicula’s Ritual and Six Methods

 2 An English Clavicula: The Return of Bileth Son of Aned

 3 French Clavicula

 4 Hebrew Claviculae

 5 Clavicula Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis

6 Sapientia Salomonis (SP)

 1 A Consecrated Catalog of Demons

 2 Liber consecrationum

 3 Ḥokhmat Shlomo: The Hebrew SP s

 4 Sapientia Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis

 5 Liber centum regum

 6 Intra- and Inter-Clusteric Analysis

Part 2: Summary

Part 3 Histories

Introduction: Beyond the Solomonic Veil

7 The Babylonian Background

 1 Ḥover Ḥaver—The Reception of a Biblical Term

 2 Babylonian Jews and Demons—Expelling or Gathering?

8 Sefer Haqqevitza

 1 Gathering Demons in Fustat—Sefer Haqqevitza and the Four Elements

 2 Sefer Haqqevitza—A Babylonian Component of the Solomonic Network

 3 Solomonic Attribution

 4 Where Are You, Arabic Sources? Some Short Notes on a Great Lacuna

9 Binding Demons in Medieval Ashkenaz and Provence

 1 Ashkenazic Ḥasidim and Sefer Haqqevitza

 2 The Chiefs of the Teli

 3 The Demonology of the Kohen Brothers

10 Binding Demons in Medieval Spain—The Astral Turn

 1 Moses of Burgos and Nachmanides

 2 Liber Razielis

 3 Berit Menuḥa

11 Berengar Ganell and Liber Theysolius

 1 The Magisterium and the Summa

 2 Repositories of Names: The Case of Liber Theysolius

12 The Age of the Clavicula

 1 Clavicula Salomonis: An Italian Reaction to Information Overload

 2 SQR Genes in the Early Modern Period

 3 Abraham Colorni and the Untold Story of the Hebrew Claviculae

13 Curating Wisdom—The Art of Knowledge Cataloging

 1 Making Catalogs I: Demons

 2 Making Catalogs II: Pentacles

14 The Greek Myth

 1 Rethinking the Hygromanteia Hypothesis

 2 Catoptromancy and the Solomonic Network

Part 3: Summary

Solomonic Magic: Final Thoughts

Bibliography

Index