The Keys Of Rabbi Solomon circa 1830
This rare manuscript of magical art is from a private collection
previously inaccessible to scholars…
Translated accurately from the
Hebrew into English by Edward Hunter
The manuscript is presented here for the first time, edited and introduced by Travis Shores,
with additional notes supplied to him courtesy of Professor Brigid Burke Monash University,
and Professor Teresa Burns University of Wisconsin.
It is available in three exclusive limited facsimile format editions for your collection
This format is limited to only 11 super deluxe hand gilt copies
Handsomely bound in superior virgin calfskin,
English marbled endpapers & presented in a custom-made slipcase
Privately printed for The Hell Fire Club
Bound in full cream goatskin that has been rubbed with pumice and then brushed to achieve
an incredibly soft and delicate surface upon which to lay and tool antique gold lettering
and the pantacle on the front cover, the book is a portfolio in wine red cloth containing two hand
made paper wrapped books, one a facsimile of the original manuscript
and the other a printed transcript of the text for study.
Each of the eleven copies is wrapped in archival glassine paper
and presented in a matching cloth slipcase.
Embellished with mysterious figures
Talismans, Pentacles &c. Circa 1830
Bound in full cream goatskin that has been rubbed with pumice and then brushed to achieve an incredibly soft and delicate surface upon which to lay and tool antique gold lettering and the pentacle on the front cover, the book is a portfolio of wine red cloth containing two handmade paper wrapped books, one a facsimile of the original manuscript and the other a printed transcript of the text for study.
All are wrapped in archival glassine paper and presented in a matching cloth slipcase.
Sample MS pages
The original manuscript has remained unseen and safe in a private collection since its creation in or around the early 1830s, only once having been shown to a specialist (the alchemical scholar Adam McLean in the 1980s) and which fact is mentioned by Professor Peterson in his edition of ‘The Clavis or Key to the Magic of Solomon’ a vastly erudite work on the transmission of Solomonic magical manuscripts from Ebenezer Sibley through Frederick Holland and Frederick Hockley through to MacGregor Mathers and his late 19th century edition of ‘The Key of Solomon the King’.
This is a scarce and important handwritten grimoire possibly copied from an earlier 18th century source, the authors own notes to the contents as well as its style suggests it is a personal copy not for circulation or even private viewing partaking of both the Solomonic grimoire tradition as well as the English ‘Cunning Man’ type of manuscript.
The ‘Edward Hunter’ of the title page may have been a Bristol based merchant and one who later had links to the Mormon groups in the United States, thus connecting two worlds between which the erudite Professor Joseph Peterson had suggested a link.
CONTENTS
The Dispositions required of a person wishing to partake of the Secrets
of the Cabalistic Science.
The Places & Times proper and Suitable for the Operation of the Great Art
Of the Matters which Serve for the Operations &
The Instruments proper & necessary for the Operations of the Art
The Influences & Secret Virtues of the Moon
Of the manner of working the Figure, Talismans, Characters
& following the Rules of the Art
Of the hours of the Day & the Night in respect to the Planets which govern them
Of the proper Perfumes suitable to the Seven Planets
Of the Oraisons, Invocations & Conjurations for the days of the week
Of the Oraisons in form of Exorcisms, to Consecrate things
which serve to the Operations of the Great Art
seven planetary days of the week