This episode celebrates 1000 Subscribers! This time we answers fans of the channel's request for an analysis of a historical book of magic. What if you were to stumble onto an actual copy of the something like the Necronomicon of HP Lovecraft / Evil Dead lore? How would you go about actually reading it? Here, we discuss at length, the various processes scholars perform to understand medieval books from book binding, to writing media, to medieval Latin and the complex set of abbreviations that often encode the writing of the middle ages by looking at a page from CLM 849 or the Munich Necromancer's Manual. As you will see, this specific spell is uses demonic magic to produce a magical cloak capable of rendering the magus invisible to all all manner of beings.

Recommended Readings:

Richard Kieckhefer Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century ISBN13: 9780271017518
Bernhard Bischoff Latin Palaeography: Antiquity and the Middle Ages 9780521367264

You can also enter for the manuscript just contacting me via my website (https://www.justinsledge.com/contact) with favorite reflections on an episode I don't this to be strictly based on patron support and that helps to meet legal guidelines so you don't need to pay anything at all to enter!

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