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The Index of Middle English Prose Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 March 2023
Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.7.
[1]
f. 4
Thys ys the moste precious and nobell experiryment of the secretes of salomon extracted owt of calldie into latayne by þe filisopher alsidis throughe the whych healpe kyng alexandre did subdewe vnder him all kynges of þe est and obtayned all thinges that he wold desyar he that wylle worke thys noble experiment first he moste be clene bathed …
f. 6
… thy sellfe in the cercle on howre or twaine after hys departinge and thanke god of thi sped and saye in principio erat verbum etcetera and blesse thy sellffe and so departe in nomine patris et fylij et spiritus sanctty amen.
‘Secretes salomoni’ (f. 4). Followed on f. 6 by a diagram of circles set within a square, with various inscriptions in Latin, beginning ‘Tetragrammaton …’
[2]
f. 6v
Fyrste the mastar muste ordayne hym a myrror that no woman hath loked in and that ys fayer and holle and vyrgin parchement and when the mone ys in the wexinge wynde ye merror in clene vyrgin parchment and then uppon the virgin parchement wright the names of thes sprites with ynke …
f. 7v
… of one yere olde and lef the merro be there alle nyght and on þe morrowe com agayne and þu sallte fynd thy merro and ther in a spryte.
‘Experimente’ (f. 6v); ‘fynis speculum’ (f. 7v). On f. 7v is a diagram of a circle with the basic compass points ‘north’ ‘est’ ‘south’ ‘west’ noted in English. Instructions for conjuring a spirit in a mirror.
[3]
f. 13
The scercell for this experyment is in the therd lefe after thys and the fyrste word of þe lefe of the boke ys sequitur experimentum.
A note referring the reader forwards to f. 15v where this heading is given above a circular diagram with Latin text. The experiment in question is presumably described in the Latin text which precedes this English note on f. 13.
[4]
f. 13
Yf thow wyll have tresure call in þe daye and howre off marcury j but þe best yeve nyght and then he hath most forboor in juviter all so ye most take hed to þe styris and þe mon and in what degre she ys wher she be in hott or kelld or wattre synes for yt is þe [.]yke poynte of þe artte and thes are the synes.
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