The Seven Kings of the Air in the 17th century

 Upon browsing the newly-gifted  manuscript Douce 116, I found on page 271 an isolated instance of a diagram associated with the seven aerial kings that we ve seen in our dealigs with The Rings of Messalah .

There is no treatise associated with the figure as far as I can tell, but it is an interesting study on the evolution of these seals, nonetheless.

The processing of this particular manuscript is quite difficult on account of the thinness of the paper and ink bleeds from the verso, but I ve managed to rescue the following diagram:

As we can see, the ”Angels” are not 8 like in the original treatise, but seven, arranged in the Chaldean order. The names of the spirits lack, but the titles do appear in the outer circle (Angelo Saturni et cha: The Angel of Saturn and its character).

Looking through my collection of manuscripts and seals, especially dedicated to the Kings, I ve discovered another diagram that went unpublished so far, from the Sloane Ms. 3824, page 76:

Apart from the trident-shaped cusps and the presence of the names in the inner circle, the diagram is precisely the same, including the missing treatise.

I ve compiled a list of the names and seals for comparison below:

I ve consulted with Dan Harms, because he does have an upcoming book of this manuscript, and he was even kind enough to give me a quote for this:

“This illustration does not appear in another instance of the Rings of Messalah. Rather, it is bundled with eleven other magical symbols at the beginning of a set of instructions for a magical roll amulet, perhaps the only known example of such instructions. How exactly it got there, and if there are other examples of it in other magical rolls, would make for interesting studies.”

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