Making Magic in Elizabethan England: Two Early Modern Vernacular Books of Magic

159 Pages·2019·8.512 MB·English

by  Frank Klaassen

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THE MAGIC IN HISTORY SERIES
FORBIDDEN RITES ALCHEMICAL BELIEF
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fift eenth Century Occultism in the Religious Culture of
Richard Kieckhefer Early Modern England
Bruce Janacek
CONJURING SPIRITS
Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic INVOKING ANGELS
Edited by Claire Fanger Th eurgic Ideas and Practices, Th irteenth to
Sixteenth Centuries
RITUAL MAGIC
Edited by Claire Fanger
Elizabeth M. Butler
THE FORTUNES OF FAUST THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF MAGIC
Elizabeth M. Butler Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages
and Renaissance
THE BATHHOUSE AT MIDNIGHT Frank Klaassen
An Historical Survey of Magic and
Divination in Russia MAGIC IN THE CLOISTER
W. F. Ryan Pious Motives, Illicit Interests, and Occult
Approaches to the Medieval Universe
SPIRITUAL AND DEMONIC MAGIC
Sophie Page
From Ficino to Campanella
D. P. Walker REWRITING MAGIC
An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a
ICONS OF POWER
Fourteenth- Century French Monk
Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity
Claire Fanger
Naomi Janowitz
MAGIC IN THE MODERN WORLD
BATTLING DEMONS
Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Witchcraft , Heresy, and Reform in the
Late Middle Ages Edited by Edward Bever and Randall Styers
Michael D. Bailey
MEDICINE, RELIGION, AND MAGIC IN
PRAYER, MAGIC, AND THE STARS IN THE EARLY STUART ENGLAND
ANCIENT AND LATE ANTIQUE WORLD Richard Napier’s Medical Practice
Edited by Scott Noegel, Joel Walker, Ofer Hadass
and Brannon Wheeler
PICATRIX
BINDING WORDS A Medieval Treatise on Astral Magic
Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages Dan Attrell and David Porreca
Don C. Skemer
THE LONG LIFE OF MAGICAL OBJECTS
STRANGE REVELATIONS
A Study in the Solomonic Tradition
Magic, Poison, and Sacrilege in Louis XIV’s France
Allegra Iafrate
Lynn Wood Mollenauer
UNLOCKED BOOKS
Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval
Libraries of Central Europe
Benedek Láng
Th e Magic in History series explores the role magic and the occult have played in European culture, religion,
science, and politics. Titles in the series bring the resources of cultural, literary, and social history to bear on the
history of the magic arts, and they contribute to an understanding of why the theory and practice of magic have
elicited fascination at every level of European society. Volumes include both editions of important texts and
signifi cant new research in the fi eld.
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Klaassen, Frank F., editor.
Title: Making magic in Elizabethan England : two early modern vernacular books
of magic / edited by Frank Klaassen.
Other titles: Magic in history.
Description: University Park, Pennsylvania : Th e Pennsylvania State University
Press, [2019] | Series: Magic in history | Includes bibliographical references
and index.
Summary: “Examines two anonymous manuscripts of magic produced in
Elizabethan England: the Antiphoner Notebook and the Boxgrove Manual.
Explores how scribes assembled these texts within wider cultural developments
surrounding early modern forms of magic”—Provided by publisher.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2019007013 | ISBN 9780271083681 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Magic—England—Early works to 1800. | Antiphoner notebook.
| Boxgrove manual. | Magic—England—History—16th century.
Classifi cation: LCC BF1622.E5 M35 2019 | DDC 133.4/30942—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019007013
Copyright © 2019 Frank Klaassen
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Published by Th e Pennsylvania State University Press,
University Park, PA 16802- 1003
Th e Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of
University Presses.
It is the policy of Th e Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper.
Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American
National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed
Library Material, ansi z39.48–1992.
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For Sharon, who shares my enduring fascination with the shadowy people
behind old and grotty bits of parchment.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments / ix
List of Abbreviations / xi
General Introduction: The Devil in the Details / 1
The Antiphoner Notebook
Introduction / 18
Th e Text / 32
The Boxgrove Manual
Introduction / 73
Th e Text / 85
Appendixes / 133
Bibliography / 136
Index / 143
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Knowledge adequate to produce an edition seldom rests in a single mind. Per-
haps more than any other form of writing, it demands contributions and advice
from a wide number of people. These editions began as a project in an under-
graduate course at the University of Saskatchewan in which a group of Classical,
Medieval, and Renaissance Studies students produced the initial transcriptions
of the Antiphoner Notebook. Without their hunger for learning, questions
about specific details of the text, and genuinely hard work this project might
never even have been conceived. As the project became a dedicated edition, the
assistance and wisdom of Margaret Dore, Claire Fanger, John Haines, Richard
Kieckhefer, Yin Liu, Laura Mitchell, Brent Nelson, Lea Olsan, Joseph Peterson,
Chris Philips, Maria Segol, Jason Underhill, Mihai Vartejaru, and Sharon Wright
have been crucial to bringing it to completion. Laurel Beyer, David Greenfield,
Ian Hampton, Ruth and Walter Klaassen, Mark Stanley, and James Wiebe offered
the perspective and wisdom of intelligent lay readers. Elise Jensen labored long
and hard to produce hand-drawn versions of the characters and images that she
then converted to digitally useable files. I am grateful to copy editors Nicholas
Taylor and Jess Klaassen-Wright and to the latter for preparing the index. Thanks
are also due to the helpful staff at the British Library and the Bodleian Library.
Financial support from the University of Saskatchewan and the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada made it all possible.
Particular thanks are due to my brother, Michael Klaassen, and Claire Fanger
for their generous guidance in sorting out some of the finer details of the Latin
passages, and to Margaret Dore, for her invaluable assistance with the Hebrew
names in the Boxgrove Manual. Any remaining errors are certainly my own.
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