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Sloane MS. 3824 is a collection of multiple originally separate works, with different authors and copyists, that were bound up together prior to being acquired by Hans Sloane in the sale of Joseph’s Jekyll’s library in 1739/40.
The first half or so (fol. 2-79) appears to have been a single notebook, the vast bulk of the text in which is in one hand, generally believed to be that of Elias Ashmole, copied or summarized from multiple earlier MSS. The significance of the title “Longobardus,” which appears on fol. 2r (with a contents list in a later hand, probably by Sloane’s librarian, below it) is unclear, and possibly only refers to the materials on fol. 3-29, or even 3-15.
The contents of this notebook are:
Fol. 3-15 form a collection of prayers and conjurations based around “calling forth of Elemental or Infernal Powers, or Spirits of Darkness”: there is a preliminary prayer, an invocation of “L[ucifer] B[eelzebub and] S[atan]” to beat up on lesser spirits, a conjuration of a group of named spirits for the purpose of treasure-hunting, and a general conjuration (deriving from the Solomonic Vinculum Spirituum via the Heptameron of pseudo-Abano) addressed to any “Spirit or Spiritual power” whose name is to be plugged in where the text reads “N.” These materials share style and significant elements of phrasing with the “Invocation of Angels” texts of the same period.
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Some of the material in this MS. has been typeset previously. A volume called "The Book of Treasure Spirits" by David Rankine (London: Avalonia, 2009) includes the material from fol. 3-29 and 89-120 (with some minor omissions).
The first half or so (fol. 2-79) appears to have been a single notebook, the vast bulk of the text in which is in one hand, generally believed to be that of Elias Ashmole, copied or summarized from multiple earlier MSS. The significance of the title “Longobardus,” which appears on fol. 2r (with a contents list in a later hand, probably by Sloane’s librarian, below it) is unclear, and possibly only refers to the materials on fol. 3-29, or even 3-15.
The contents of this notebook are:
Fol. 3-15 form a collection of prayers and conjurations based around “calling forth of Elemental or Infernal Powers, or Spirits of Darkness”: there is a preliminary prayer, an invocation of “L[ucifer] B[eelzebub and] S[atan]” to beat up on lesser spirits, a conjuration of a group of named spirits for the purpose of treasure-hunting, and a general conjuration (deriving from the Solomonic Vinculum Spirituum via the Heptameron of pseudo-Abano) addressed to any “Spirit or Spiritual power” whose name is to be plugged in where the text reads “N.” These materials share style and significant elements of phrasing with the “Invocation of Angels” texts of the same period.
[...]
Some of the material in this MS. has been typeset previously. A volume called "The Book of Treasure Spirits" by David Rankine (London: Avalonia, 2009) includes the material from fol. 3-29 and 89-120 (with some minor omissions).