The Key of Solomon

With regard, however, to the Hebrew text itself, it seemed, as far as our knowledge went, to be altogether lost, so that in recent times no one troubled to make a search for it. In fact, it was given up as lost (See original Latin: Cf., abbreviation for confer, meaning "compare" Mathers, page 5.)

Without entering into the reasons for the utter disappearance of the work in the original, might it not be found in the fact that in recent centuries the book had lost its value for the sorcerer, and had an interest simply for the antiquarian student and the folk-lorist?

As late, however, as in the Faust-legend—child of Germanic original: "Teutonic" soil and of Latin original: "Romance" and Slavic original: "Slavonic" adoption, the Little Key original Latin: Clavicula served as the primary source of the Magic Art which figures so prominently in the legend itself.

To come now to the manuscript MS. which we are about to describe, and of which I propose to give an outline. I have lately had the good fortune to become possessed of what appears to be (as far as I am able to judge) a Hebrew manuscript of the “The Key of Solomon” original Latin title: Clavicula Salomonis, until this supposed to have been lost. I came across the volume while searching among the books contained in the library left by my late father, the