Clauneck: Historical Sources, Manuscript Seals, and Ritual Traditions

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CLAUNECK
«Claunech»

UNDER DUKE SYRACH · VERUM · SOUTH
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What you ask of it

Has power over riches: he can find treasures and gives great wealth, for he is much loved by Lucifer.

Cross-grimoire link. Clauneck is the only one of Syrach’s eighteen to recur outside the De Secretis lineage: as Claunth in the Key of Solomon (18th c.) and with his own entry in Collin de Plancy’s Dictionnaire Infernal (19th c.). He is not in the Ars Goetia.

Verum · South

Ancient forms

Claunt · Claunth · Clahunt · Claunch

First documented attestation

In the De Secretis manuscripts (Clavicula Salomonis de secretis, 17th c. — Dresden N.91, Rps 3352 II, Venice b.93) as «Claunt», with its power and its drawn character. This is the stratum preceding the printed Verum.

Power in the manuscript (De Secretis, Latin)

«Primo Claunth in Divitias, quas dare et tollere potest.»

De Secretis · SLUB Dresden, Mscr.Dresd.N.91 · p.20 (ms.12)

This same character is also drawn (in red and green ink) in

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(Wellcome MS.983, ~1709), the French witness closest to the printed Verum — public domain.

The character in the manuscript (colour)

The same character of Clauneck, hand-drawn in red and green ink in «L'Art Magique» (Wellcome MS.983, ca. 1709) — the French witness closest to the printed Grimorium Verum. Public domain.

How it is invoked (De Secretis, 17th c.)

To have coins whenever desired: decide how many are wanted and whether they are copper, gold, silver, or bronze; cut that number of circles from double parchment, draw the sign of the coin on both sides, trace a circle on a board, and make as many characters of Claunth as there are coins; set the parchment coins upright in a cylinder and recite the carmen:

Claunth feras catebam / Lignugoth nemoheranot agan / Seruma serunt erithren / Clebanoth nechir Trebien

Sleep for one hour without thinking about money, and find real coins.

De Secretis · Mscr.Dresd.N.91 · p.37–38 (ms.29–30)

Sources and further discussion

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(Wellcome MS.983, ca. 1709, public domain) and collated with the 17th-c. De Secretis manuscripts.

This research is a work in progress, so corrections, additional sources, personal rituals, and experiences related to Clauneck are very welcome. If you have anything to share that could help expand or complement this research, I’d be glad to hear from you.