The Munich Manual of Demonic Magic or Liber incantationum, exorcismorum et fascinationum variarum (CLM 849 of the Bavarian State Library , Munich ) is a fifteenth-century goetic grimoire manuscript. The text, composed in Latin, is largely concerned with demonology and necromancy .
6-618: Richard Kieckhefer edited the text of the manuscript in 1998 under the title Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century . Portions of the text, in English translation, are presented in Forbidden Rites as well, embedded within the author's essays and explanations on the Munich Manual in specific and grimoires in general. The Russian translation of this Latin grimoire
12-604: Is an American medievalist , religious historian , scholar of church architecture , and author. He is Professor of History and John Evans Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University . After an undergraduate education at Saint Louis University , Kieckhefer earned a PhD in history from the University of Texas in 1972, spending a year in Munich at the Monumenta Germaniae Historica Institute with
18-415: The spells allow for obtaining the love of a woman, achieving invisibility, acquiring wealth and treasures, or gaining knowledge. The text is accompanied by over 40 illustrations of magic circles and symbols to be used in the rituals. Pages 130 to 133 include a list of 11 demons, similar in part to the one from Ars Goetia . The manuscript seems to be a compilation from multiple earlier sources. Most of
24-623: The support of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Kieckhefer has written on sainthood , medieval ritual magic , witchcraft , medieval and contemporary church architecture , hoopoes , and mystical literature ; he has also edited and translated important texts from medieval Latin. He has taught at Northwestern University since 1975. His Magic in the Middle Ages , first published in 1989, has been translated into Spanish, German, Polish, Czech, Italian, and Greek, and
30-703: The text is in Latin, with the exception of two appended materials in German and Italian. One of the most famous sections of the Munich Manual is the Bond of Solomon, a ritual that supposedly allows the magician to bind demons for the purpose of either guarding him, providing treasures, or answering questions on any matter. This article about a non-fiction book on occultism is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Richard Kieckhefer Richard Kieckhefer (born 1946 )
36-434: Was published in 2019. There is only one known surviving manuscript of the Munich Manual , which is almost complete, except for the first two folios that describe the beginning of the first ritual. The rest of the grimoire contains complete instructions for the invocation of demons such as Satan , Lilith , Astaroth , Valac and Samael , as well as the supposed attainment of favors and supernatural powers from them. Some of
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