Seals and characters from Pal.Lat.1196

For further information on this manuscript, see the main article. I have omitted the simple astrological and mantical diagrams, that can be considered simple geometrical constructions because they  bare no importance to the study of image and seal magic. 

Although interesting, I have also omitted the characters in the Lapidarius (15v-24v) because they are small, unclear and often hard to separate and discern from the text and its scribal notae. 

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 1. De Quattor Annulis Salomonis


1.The first ring. fol. 1v

2.The second ring. fol. 1v (left image partially absconded by a strip of hanji paper meant as mend most likely)

3.The third ring. fol. 2r

4.The fourth ring. fol. 2r

 2. Belenus: De imaginibus planetarum
Fol.3v. Although the library`s list of contents place this sequence of signs right between two tracts titled De Imaginibus Planetarum, there seem to be a lot more sections quoting different authors: Belenus, Hermes, Thebeyth, Bolen, signs occur, then Hermes again and three times Theozgrecus. 

1.The image of the Moon and its characters:  

2.The image of Jupiter and its characters: 

3.The image of the Venus and its characters: 

4.The image of Saturn and its characters: 

5.The image of the Sun and its characters: 

6.The image of Mars and its characters: 

7.The image of Mercury and its characters: 

To be identified, most probably different version of the Mercury glyph:

1




2




3




4 

 3.De annulis septem planetarum Salomonis
127v

All the characters are placed in rectangular rubriques, which have been eliminated. The characters on the ring of Jupiter are placed last, oriented vertically, and the top part (far right) has less visibility due to the page`s curve, which I tried to augment. The order seems odd but it is kept as it is in the manuscript at a left-to-right reading.

1.The Ring of Saturn 




2.The Ring of Mars



3.The Ring of Venus



4.The Ring of Mercury



5.The Ring of Saturn Moon



6.The Ring of Sun 



7The Ring of Saturn Jupiter

4. De annulis septem planetarum Salomonis

127v

After the set of characters above we have another set, presumably from another tract beginning in the marginalia, attributed to Solomon, not so neatly drawn and enclosed, but more hastily written and with great differences in size. The interesting thing is that we have two sets of characters that are related: a very close resemblance to the characters in Wellcome Ms.110 fol 110r and a similarity with the first set of characters associated to the tables in the Book of Thaytamen, although mirrored. 

1.The Image of the Sun and its characters 

2.The Image of Venus and its characters 



3.The Image of Mercury and its characters 



4.The Image of the Moon and its characters 



5.The Image of Saturn and its characters 



6.The Image of the Jupiter and its characters 



7.The Image of the Mars and its characters 

5.De annulis septem planetarum Salomonis
128v-r

1. The seal of the Sun

2. The seal of Mercury

3. The seal of the Moon

4. The seal of Jupiter

5. The seal of Mars

6. The seal of Saturn

7. The seal of Venus

  6.De annulis septem planetarum Salomonis
128v-134r

Although listed under the same name, I believe on 128v we have the start of another tract. The characters lead me to believe that this is the same treatise found in CLM849 of which I wrote about here. 

Since I don't have a legible text and I`m not inclined at the moment to make a full transcript of the text, I have not assigned the characters their signifficants. As far as I can tell, Character set 1 is Saturn, 2 is Jupiter, etc, but currently that is as far as I can pinpoint them. The origin is Arabic most assuredly, after the names of the planets (Zoal, Almusterij, etc).  Set 6-12 seem to be in the same spirit and might be related. Their limitations might not be precise due to line continuity and their general look is of Arabic code.  Sets 15-17 might be one set. Set 19 is attributed to Saturn and set 20-21 to the Moon (these have the characters on the far right partially absconded by the page fold). 

Character set 1

 Character set2

Character set 3



Character set 4



Character set 5



Character set 6



Character set 7



Character set 8



Character set 9



Character set 10



Character set 11



Character set 12

Character set 13

 Character set 14

Character set 15



Character set 16



Character set 17



Character set 18



Character set 19



Character set 20



Character set 21



Character set 22

7.Belenus: De imaginibus planetarum

Fols.165r-v

I have not managed to identify correctly this short text nor the nature of the characters, but it seems to be another version of a treatise attributed to Belenus. Except for the first character, placed outside the text with a manicula, the rest of the 9 characters are inclosed in a rectangular box. They resemble classical medieval magical characters very little, but do bare a striking resemblance to hebreao-arabic magical characters with circlets. 

Character No.1

Character No.2

Character No.3

Character No.4

Character No.5

Character No.6

Character No.7

Character No.8

Character No.9

Character No.10

 8. Belenus: De imaginibus planetarum

165v

Arabic names corrupted, the classical Arabic transliteration of the name of the planet is placed in square brackets. 

1. Saturn

Zoal .1. [Zuhal]

2. Jupiter

Almustery .2. [Al-Mushtari]

3. Mars

Almerych .3. [Al-Marikh]

4. Sun

Ayenis .4. [Ash-Shams]

5. Venus

Azocra .5.  Azoera.5. [Az-Zuhra]

6. Mercury

Anchaharich .6. [Awtarid]

7. Moon

Alkamus .7. Alkamur .7. [Al-Qamar]

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