Liber Lunae and Sepher ha-Levanah / Book of the Moon

by Karr, Don; Nachshon, Calanit; Skinner, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780738731391
• ISBN10: 0738731390
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-08
• Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd

Summary

Liber Lunae & Sepher ha-Levanah offers access to two rare esoteric texts on Moon magic. Liber Lunae has been transcribed from a sixteenthcentury English manuscript,annotated, and supplemented with modernized English. The three major sections include: The Mansions of the Moon, which describes the operations of the twenty-eight constellations of the lunar zodiac, their magical virtues, and their names; The Hours of the Day and Night, which describes the operations of the twelve hours of the day and the night, their virtues, talismanic images, angels to invoke, and names; and The Figures of the Planets, which describes each planet’s magic square, virtue, suffumigation, magical directions, and inscription. There’s also transcriptions of related material (on talismanic images) from other sections of Sloane MS 3826. Also included: A. W. Greenup’s 1912 edition of Sefer ha-Levanah, a Hebrew version of the Liber Lunae material, along with a full translation by Calanit Nachshon.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. 8
Contents	p. 9
List of Tables and Figures	p. 10
Foreword	p. 11
Introduction	p. 13
Liber Lunse: Sloane MS 3826, fols. 84-97	p. 39
Sepher ha-Levanah - Book of the Moon
Hebrew text transcribed	p. 68
English translation	p. 99
Supplementary Material
The twenty-eight mansions of the Moon A Paraphrase in contemporary English combining Liber Lunae fols. 84-86v & Sepher ha-Levanah %% 1 & 2	p. 125
The hours of the day and night: A Paraphrase in contemporary English of Liber Lunsefols. 87-92v	p. 131
Figures of the planets: A Paraphrase in contemporary English of Liber Lumefols. 93-96v	p. 139
The twenty-eight mansions of the moon: The Virtues of the Faces (Sloane MS 3826, fols. 80-83v)	p. 146
The hours of the day and night: Work of the Hours (Sloane MS 3826, fols. 65-67v & 78-80)	p. 151
Appendix: Names, Orisons and Magical Directions (Sloane MS 3826, fols. 57-83)	p. 158
Bibliography	p. 190
Index	p. 194
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