Merlin

2019 · réf. 17707 — United Kingdom: Fulgur Press 2019. Second Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Second Edition. Hardcover. 12.5" x 9.5". 158pp. Hardcover paper over boards with cloth spine lettered in red gilt. Very mild shelf wear else like new. From the publisher: A full-color facsimile of an 18th-century black-magic compendium. Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes the manuscript "appears at first sight to be a 'grimoire' or magician's manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use animal sacrifice sigillary body art masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits and the black magician's highest ambition-an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil-can be fulfilled." Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript. 12.5" x 9.5". 158pp. Hardcover paper over boards with cloth spine lettered in red gilt. Very mild shelf wear else like new. From the publisher: A full-color facsimile of an 18th-century black-magic compendium. Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton notes the manuscript "appears at first sight to be a 'grimoire' or magician's manual intended for noviciates of black magic. Psychedelic drug use animal sacrifice sigillary body art masturbation fantasy and the necromantic manipulation of gallows-corpses count among the transgressive procedures it depicts. With their aid hidden treasures are wrested from guardian spirits and the black magician's highest ambition-an infernal transfiguration and union with the Devil-can be fulfilled." Hidden for decades within the Wellcome Library collection Touch Me Not is published here as a full-color facsimile. The German and Latin texts have been translated by Hereward Tilton and Merlin Cox scholars who have explored the sources for the various elements and provided copious references. Tilton provides an introduction that lays out the context for the survival of this extraordinary manuscript. Fulgur Press hardcover