Solomonic Magic

Preface List of Figures and Tables A Note on Hebrew Transliteration Part 1 Methodology 1 Philology  1 Genes and Scale Shifting  2 Textual Networks 2 Solomonic Magic: A Term in Flux or a Distinct Tradition?  1 Defining through Polemical Discourses  2 The Anatomical Anomaly of “Solomonic Magic” 3 From Micro(s) to Macro: Multi-Sources and Scribal Strategies  1 Practitioners’ Confessions  2 Genesis Narratives Part 1: Summary Part 2 Texts Clusters and Nodes: A Brief Introduction 4 Liber Bileth (LB)  1 Liber Bileth: Fusing Two Texts into One  2 The Book of Spirits  3 The Marvelous Ring  4 Liber Bileth: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis 5 Clavicula Salomonis (CS)  1 Italian and Latin Claviculae: The Clavicula’s Ritual and Six Methods  2 An English Clavicula: The Return of Bileth Son of Aned  3 French Clavicula  4 Hebrew Claviculae  5 Clavicula Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis 6 Sapientia Salomonis (SP)  1 A Consecrated Catalog of Demons  2 Liber consecrationum  3 Ḥokhmat Shlomo: The Hebrew SP s  4 Sapientia Salomonis: Preliminary Intra-Clusteric Genetic Analysis  5 Liber centum regum  6 Intra- and Inter-Clusteric Analysis Part 2: Summary Part 3 Histories Introduction: Beyond the Solomonic Veil 7 The Babylonian Background  1 Ḥover Ḥaver—The Reception of a Biblical Term  2 Babylonian Jews and Demons—Expelling or Gathering? 8 Sefer Haqqevitza  1 Gathering Demons in Fustat—Sefer Haqqevitza and the Four Elements  2 Sefer Haqqevitza—A Babylonian Component of the Solomonic Network  3 Solomonic Attribution  4 Where Are You, Arabic Sources? Some Short Notes on a Great Lacuna 9 Binding Demons in Medieval Ashkenaz and Provence  1 Ashkenazic Ḥasidim and Sefer Haqqevitza  2 The Chiefs of the Teli  3 The Demonology of the Kohen Brothers 10 Binding Demons in Medieval Spain—The Astral Turn  1 Moses of Burgos and Nachmanides  2 Liber Razielis  3 Berit Menuḥa 11 Berengar Ganell and Liber Theysolius  1 The Magisterium and the Summa  2 Repositories of Names: The Case of Liber Theysolius 12 The Age of the Clavicula  1 Clavicula Salomonis: An Italian Reaction to Information Overload  2 SQR Genes in the Early Modern Period  3 Abraham Colorni and the Untold Story of the Hebrew Claviculae 13 Curating Wisdom—The Art of Knowledge Cataloging  1 Making Catalogs I: Demons  2 Making Catalogs II: Pentacles 14 The Greek Myth  1 Rethinking the Hygromanteia Hypothesis  2 Catoptromancy and the Solomonic Network Part 3: Summary Solomonic Magic: Final Thoughts Bibliography Index