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Elizabethan Magic: The Art and the Magus ReviewLike a previous important volume by the same author (see Robert Turner 1986, The Heptarchia Mystica of John Dee, Aquarian Press), the present work gives the impression of being a slightly motley collection of independent short articles, forced into uneasy proximity to create the semblance of a book.
The second half of the volume, pages 90 to 190, is taken up with short sketches of Simon Forman, Robert Fludd, and Thomas Jones of Tregaron. This last article, penned by the author's wife, is the farthest removed from the main centre of interest of the book, and is obviously included to pad out the text.
The centre of interest is John Dee and his Angelic Manuscripts. Three short texts are reprinted here:
(1)49 Angelic Keys (pages 31 to 47)
(2)Book of Knowledge, Help and Earthly Victory (pages 48 to 58)
(3)Book of Supplications and Invocations (pages 59 to 80).
The layout of the book does not make this arrangement clear, and Turner is not very transparent about his sources. In fact he is transcribing everything from the British Library manuscript Sloane 3191. Unfortunately, his transcription is not reliable: in the Angelic Keys, for example, "i" and "l" are sometimes confused, and accent markings are often omitted. At the time of writing this (April 2008) interested readers can search the internet for "Sloane 3191" and download photos of the original manuscript.
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