Scans
Some years ago – in 1988,
perhaps – I expressed a fledgling interest in demonology to
David Jones, senior fellow at the now defunct Center for Enochian
Studies. Eager to promote the aspirations of a fellow scholar of
matters arcane, he offered me the opportunity to make a hard copy of
the infamous “Goëtia” – more properly known
as Lemegeton Clavicula Solomonis, or The Lesser Key of
Solomon the King – from a roll of microfilm held in the
CES's collection. My education in the ways of spirits infernal thus
began, not in some abandoned crypt at midnight, as the more romantic
souls among us might hope, but instead, in a stuffy and cramped room
on the upper floors of a San Francisco State University library.
The equipment at our disposal was certainly
not the best, showing considerable signs of student abuse and with a
limited selection of lenses, but a lot of patience and no end of
twiddling yielded a serviceable copy in a few hours time at minimal
expense. The original is in the British Museum, Sloane MS 2731, a
highly legible yet incomplete manuscript, dated to the 17th
century.
Offered here is a limited selection of raw
scans I made for Joel Biroco. The
individual folia are presented in two parts, recto and
verso, and each of these is further divided into two
overlapping TIFF files. To make matters worse, you will find that
the orientation of each individual scan does not quite square with
its companion, due to the shitty indexing of the equipment used.
These scans were made at 300 dpi, and are consequently immense, even
at maximum compression. I have therefore given the option of
downloading the individual images in one monolithic zip file, or as
a collection of RAR volumes, still weighing in at a hefty 1M a
piece.
Sloane MS 2731, Folio 1vo:
lem1voa.zip
lem1vob.zip
lem1voa.rar
lem1voa.r00
lem1voa.r01
lem1voa.r02
lem1voa.r03
lem1voa.r04
lem1voa.r05
lem1voa.r06
lem1vob.rar
lem1vob.r00
lem1vob.r01
lem1vob.r02
lem1vob.r03
lem1vob.r04
lem1vob.r05
lem1vob.r06
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