Thursday 1 August 2013

Complete list of Leipzig University magical manuscripts (links)



 Magical circle used in conjuration


Due to Joseph Peterson s amazing generosity with information I found out about one of the most amazing depositories of occult manuscripts online. He notified all those interested in a short Facebook share that the Leipzig University Library (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig) recently made available a collection online (Link here), with such works as  Clavicula Salomonis, Abramelin, Liber Razielis, Faust material, and many others. 


Seal of the spirit Belus


I spent my time since then researching these manuscripts, carefully noting the shelfmark, the name and what contents they have, especially seals, diagrams, characters and such. 

My private document, with direct links in the titles, could help others access this collection more easily, and help find relevant material whenever needed. 

I know I drew a lot of information and was immensely helped by Frank Klaassen s list over at Societas Magica, so I figured I should not keep this to myself.
This is of course a rough draft with practical uses, not an academic reference tool.

The list does not have a detailed account of the contents, the author, the incipit, the language, the date of redaction and other codicological information, but it is a start in beginning to analise the collection. 

The UniLeipzig website does not list them in any order in particular, so i chose to put them in order according to their shelf-mark. 

I have found 142 manuscripts, if there are more, I have yet to find them.




Shelfmark

Title with hyperlink
Notes on image content
Cod.Mag.1

Pentacles
Cod.Mag.2

Seals, diagram
Cod.Mag.3

Characters
Cod.Mag.4

Usual seals and pentacles
Cod.Mag.5

Colored pentacles
Cod.Mag.6

spirit list and seals

Cod.Mag.7

-
Cod.Mag.8

-
Cod.Mag.9

Psalms with characters
Cod.Mag.10

-
Cod.Mag.11

Few diagrams
Cod.Mag.12

Baron
Cod.Mag.13

-
Cod.Mag.14

Diagrams
Cod.Mag.15

Abramelin
Cod.Mag.16

Diagrams, SDE, seals, Thesaurus Spirituum!
Cod.Mag.17

Qemayas
Cod.Mag.18

-
Cod.Mag.19

Pentacles, 14 original, Clavicula
Cod.Mag.20

-
Cod.Mag.21

Kircher ToL
Cod.Mag.22

Diagrams and seals
Cod.Mag.23

Plantary seals, Heptameron based
Cod.Mag.24

Diagrams
Cod.Mag.25

Diagrams
Cod.Mag.26

-
Cod.Mag.27
Names of spirits, Clavicle pentacles
Cod.Mag.28

-
Cod.Mag.29

Unique angelic seals, squares.
Cod.Mag.30

Seals, diagrams. Scheible.
Cod.Mag.31

-
Cod.Mag.32

Interesting seals
Cod.Mag.33

Ring images
Cod.Mag.34

Interesting characters
Cod.Mag.35

Ring images, characters
Cod.Mag.36

One figure.
Cod.Mag.37

The Oedipus Aegyptiacus talismans
Cod.Mag.38

14 seals, Scheible
Cod.Mag.39

Interesting seals
Cod.Mag.40

-
Cod.Mag.41

One seal
Cod.Mag.42
Psalm secrets with characters
Cod.Mag.43

One seal
Cod.Mag.44

-
Cod.Mag.45

One diagram
Cod.Mag.46

One diagram
Cod.Mag.47

One diagram
Cod.Mag.48

Four diagrams.
Cod.Mag.49

-
Cod.Mag.50

Diagrams and seals
Cod.Mag.51

Simple seals and diagrams
Cod.Mag.52

-
Cod.Mag.53

One diagram
Cod.Mag.54

Simple diagrams
Cod.Mag.55

One diagram
Cod.Mag.56

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.57

Seals
Cod.Mag.58

Alphanumeric squares
Cod.Mag.59

-
Cod.Mag.60

-
Cod.Mag.61
Few diagrams
Cod.Mag.62

-
Cod.Mag.63

Few diagrams
Cod.Mag.64

Numeric tables
Cod.Mag.65

65 magical alphabets
Cod.Mag.66

Figure and seals
Cod.Mag.67

Few simple diagrams
Cod.Mag.68

Two  diagrams
Cod.Mag.69

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.70

-
Cod.Mag.71

Pentacles
Cod.Mag.72
Talismans, rings, diagrams and seals
Cod.Mag.73

Geomantic permutations
Cod.Mag.74

Few diagrams
Cod.Mag.75

Two  diagrams
Cod.Mag.76

Spirit seals
Cod.Mag.77

Seals, diagrams, Scheible
Cod.Mag.78

Seals
Cod.Mag.79

-
Cod.Mag.80

-
Cod.Mag.81

Tables
Cod.Mag.82

-
Cod.Mag.83

One diagram
Cod.Mag.84

Tablets (Dee?)
Cod.Mag.85

Seals of the clavicle
Cod.Mag.86

Few figures
Cod.Mag.87

One diagram
Cod.Mag.88

Few characters
Cod.Mag.89

-
Cod.Mag.90

-
Cod.Mag.91

Seals, figure
Cod.Mag.92

14 diagrams
Cod.Mag.93

Diagrams  
Cod.Mag.94

Seven complex diagrams
Cod.Mag.95

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.96

The evocation of Oberion.
Cod.Mag.97

-
Cod.Mag.98

Few characters
Cod.Mag.99

Few characters
Cod.Mag.100

-
Cod.Mag.101

Amulet or tefilin
Cod.Mag.102

-
Cod.Mag.103

Two seals
Cod.Mag.104

Few magical squares
Cod.Mag.105

One diagram
Cod.Mag.106

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.107

-
Cod.Mag.108

One  diagram
Cod.Mag.109

Three  diagrams
Cod.Mag.110

One diagram
Cod.Mag.111

One complex diagram
Cod.Mag.112

-
Cod.Mag.113

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.114

One diagram
Cod.Mag.115

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.116

-
Cod.Mag.117

One diagram
Cod.Mag.118

One diagram
Cod.Mag.119

One diagram
Cod.Mag.120

Three diagrams
Cod.Mag.121

-
Cod.Mag.122

One diagram
Cod.Mag.123
-
Cod.Mag.124

Few diagrams
Cod.Mag.125

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.126

Two diagrams
Cod.Mag.127

Two diagrams, a few sets of characters
Cod.Mag.128

Four diagrams for each sign of the Zodiac, Magical Calendar
Cod.Mag.129

One diagram
Cod.Mag.130

Few characters
Cod.Mag.131

-
Cod.Mag.132

Few characters
Cod.Mag.133

Interesting diagrams and seals
Cod.Mag.134

Few diagrams
Cod.Mag.135

-
Cod.Mag.136

Two diagrams, one seal.
Cod.Mag.137

Few characters, one diagram.
Cod.Mag.138

Numerous seals and diagrams.
Cod.Mag.139

Diagrams and seals
Cod.Mag.140

Seals, diagrams and characters
Cod.Mag.141

Several figurative drawings
Cod.Mag.142

Few alchemical symbols



If you notice a link sending you to the wrong manuscript or any other glitch, please let me know. 

Image source:

Des Bischoffs Albrechts Geister-Beschwerungen, zwantzig mächtige Geister zu citiren und zu beruffen, Schätze und anders mehr von ihnen zu überkommen - Cod.mag.50, pages 18 and 34



16 comments:

  1. Thank you for posting this valuable resource.

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  2. You re too kind mister Griffin. My honor to be of help. My input is quite small compared to the had work put in by the staff of the Universitary Library of Leipzig. As I recall from one of your speaches, you might be one to actually read the manuscripts.

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  3. please check link Cod.Mag.132 thx.

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  4. The links seem to just be loading blank pages for me in chrome, but it is the same when I do it from the university site. Are you using any particular software/browser/viewer?

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  5. It s just a glitch or a down server. Happened 2 times since I know the website. It will come back.

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  6. Hell Mihai as all ways you bring and do amazing work. Congratulations and Thank you for this. We want more of you in Romania. I am still waiting and looking forward for esoteric treat we have talked.
    Keep up the good and quality work as usually.

    All the best Raul Petrisor

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  7. Thank, very interesting, great contribution
    big hug

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  8. Vartejaru Lord, can I use your work on my site?

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  9. Cod. Mag. 139 link seems to lead to an early 20th century book about Islamic literature

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    1. http://histbest.ub.uni-leipzig.de/receive/UBLHistBestCBU_cbu_00000184

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  10. I had a small part from a friend but thanks to you i will download all

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  11. I've been studying this collection for some time. I ran across it through the Dresden web site several years ago, but until a year or so ago could not establish a link to the collection. I've found a couple interesting things that might be of interest. Most of these mss appear in a small catalogue appended at the end of ps-trithemius's Veterum Sophorum Sigilla, 1732. The catalogue was issued by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz famous for his edition of the Deutsche Chemicum Theatrum. Roth-Scholtz has a short account of the collection prefacing his listing. One can down load the mss fro the Leipzig website but that can prove challenging. One can load only 50 pages at a time, After the first 50 pages the page order gets jumbled. The entire list is catalogued as text numbers which makes for a rather odd arrangement. Pages after that cross from two digits to three have to be prefaced with a leading zero (e.g. 080-120)

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  12. Does anyone know why the books can no longer be viewed online? If searched, I receive the message: For reasons of preservation, use is only possible in justified exceptions.
    Thanks in advance.

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