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News and Updates
2023-09-29 06:25 PM
Announcements:

Alternative Rationalities and Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective (CAS-E), lecture series starting Oct. 17, 2023 at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (www.cas-e.de). The schedule for the lectures is here: All lectures can be attended via zoom (link on the top right corner of the poster).

The politics of authenticity in esoteric practices, second annual conference of CAS-E, November 15-17, 2023, Forschungscampus Waischenfeld in Bavaria, Germany. The conference programme in a short and a long version (the latter equipped with abstracts of all presentations) is here. (First page contains a zoom link.)

Recent books by members
On the Christian Religion, by Marsilio Ficino, translated by Dan Attrell, Brett Bartlett. and David Porreca, (University of Toronto Press, 2022).
Magic in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed., Richard Kieckhefer (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
The Magic of Roguesa new sourcebook by Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright (Penn State Press, 2021).

If you have published a book in the last two years and want to post a notice here, email the secretary with title and publication data.

Fall 2023 newsletter is out! We continue to invite proposals for future issues. We are looking for lead articles (1500-2500 words) announcing new developments deriving from research in the study and teaching of magic and its related topics dealing with all regions and time periods. We are also looking for smaller pieces for our notes and queries column. News about dissertations in progress or completed, manuscript discoveries, or other such items are welcomed. Send your proposals to newsletters@societasmagica.org.

Don't forget that we have a Travel Bursary available for members presenting papers relevant to our interests at conferences. (It can be any conference).

 

House Resources:

Frank Klaassen's Magic Manuscripts

John of Morigny's Liber florum celestis doctrine:
manuscripts, manuscript catalogues, and links to online resources

Links to manuscript lists and databases:

(This includes links to some of the largest searchable medieval manuscript databases online with between 30,000 and 90,000 entries each, useful for hunting manuscripts of all kinds.)

British Library Manuscript Catalogue

Hill Monastic Manuscript Library Database

Jordanus Catalogue of Medieval Scientific Manuscripts

Manuscripta Medievalia - German manuscript database

Adam McLean's list of manuscripts containing alchemical texts


Digital manuscripts and digital libraries


Bibliothèque Nationale de France An increasing repository of digitized manuscripts. Although mostly late examples, they have posted several on their site which can be downloaded as PDFs

Universität Leipzig has a very rich and interesting collection of mostly 18th century magic manuscripts with texts dating in some cases much earlier.

Book of magic in the Folger Shakespeare Library; this is a big magic book dating to late sixteenth century with many cute pictures.  For overview see B. Mowatt, "Prospero's Book" Shakespeare Quarterly 52.1

Dee's Spirit Actions; Click "Enochian Manuscripts Online":  includes full set of image files for several BL manuscripts, filling out materials omitted from Casaubon, as well as complete text of Casaubon.

Virtual manuscript library of Switzerland -- huge
 
Digital facsimiles of Medieval manuscripts at the Bavarian State Library, Munich
(includes Clm 276 and two other John of Morigny manuscripts, as well as much else of interest to discerning readers)
 
Digital facsimiles of Medieval manuscripts at Oxford
Bodleian and other libraries
 
Digital facsimiles National Library of Wales
(includes a copy of Steganographia among other things)
 
The Warburg Institute, Digital facsimiles of early printed editions in many cool areas

Oxyrhynchus Papyri database and imaging, Oxford
 
Princeton Digital library of Islamic Manuscripts

Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
 


Miscellaneous resources

Resource for folks doing ancient magic: Études Magiques

Please advise manuscripts if you know of other links that you think should be added to this page.
 

Updated May 19, 2013