Societas Magica - SMN Summer 2002 Issue 9

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Writienbelween 304 nd 3l8 by nmonknamed ohnat heBencdictincmonxslerv f Morign!, heLihet-r,isionu sa compiationof praycrs ddrcsedto heViryin,God.Christ. heHolySpirit.andthe ineorders fAngcls, om-pris ngarilualsysenl ortbeacquisition f knowledgehat s aidout n aseriesofstcpsmoving i orll sensoryknowledgchroughhcsevcniberirl fts. hiloso-phy urd heololiy. ooselymodeled n hewellknownandwidelycondemnedritual ext. heA :r otr)r/dof Soiomon,heLlb.,/ rlri.)nlrr was.accordiig10John.delivered y hevirginMiuy and, nlike tsSolonlonic redecessor.aspleusingo God urd 't eof iuty aintofdemonic ofuption. Ttepurity ofJohn's rstemwasnotequally bvious o all.however,rnd he exiwasbumtasherctical ndsorceroust heLJniversi[, f Paris n I 323.r Though nlormalionaboul$e textoflhe Lil)?/- 'irlrrrr? hasoniygriduallybecome vailablettscholurs verthe astfifteen ears,:evidenceontinueso accumulaleot onlyof itsdispersalin widevaiety offourteendr- nd ifleenth-ce ury manuscriptconlexts, utalsoofthe adaplationfextructsiom John's ralers10differenluses y olherpeoplenihe sameimeperiod.'Oneol-lhenore inlercstingoslancesfsuchxn addplalior]asjuslbeendiscoveredy thepresenl uthorsn an lluminated rayer ooknowpreservedin heBo.lleilnLibru] (MSRawlinsonirurg. .6: SumnaryCalnlogue#15857). gir)nt iuginl i f leenrh-centuryPoland,thisisoneoflheeighrpraybooks nowno havebelongedolheJdgiellonianynirsl,v.' ight), archmefbliossuppl! he eader ith a nunberof prayers fvarious rovenancenostlyderivi gfiom pr^yersn conrmon se). ddressed()Chrisl,heVirginNlarl', ndthe Ioly Spiril .' Man) o{ rhe ndividual rayers avebeen llered y nsertionofa fbnnulaic elition, ariedo suilcorrlex1.onceming divinalory perationby mcans fa crystal.Wladislas,beunworthy innerand ervantofGod. raysfbf thc^ngelsto clarifyand lluminalesomerilnes() nter. pen ndanpliti) thccrystal n order hathe nay elrn all thesecrets fthe world.

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On heappearancefthe crystal(whichmayhavebeen nexjstingobject incewedonotgetany nstruc-tion on how to prepare t) weonlyhave onjectures.tonepointit isdescribedsaquadrangularobject,anddivinenames, uchas gla.Sabaoth, etraSmmmaton,manuel,andMessiaswhichmayhavebeenengraved roundtsperimcterinhemanner f thecrystal escribedn thelast ssue fthir newsletter)rementionedspowerful atalyzersftheprocess.Manuscriptlluminationsreinforceboth the oyal urdmagicalaspectsf the ext:oneof themdepicts young rownednanwith asword an mporlanlpartof themagi-cian'snventory)ndwithawhiteeagleona coat farms the ymbol flheJagiellmianlmily)standingext otublewitha strangebject n t whichmightbe dentifiedwith Ihecryshl.The ateofthe codex s asmyserious{sthetext nd tsminiatures.In630wefind t in Besangonn thepossessionofJacobusPrive see IIr).Twenly-fouryearsateritis still n thesameown,ownedbydoctorGuefinetwhoasksor lheJesuitJohannesFerrandus'pinion n hemanuscript(Ihe atter'sanswer anbe readon f.78v-79v); nd inallyRichardRawlinson urchasedt belween7l9and1726, hen ravelingonhecontinent. llile it s notdellnitelyknownwhomay irsthave ommissionedhecompiling fthislcxt, t scerlainhdl hismanuscript aspreprredor and circulatedn acourtly ontext. rigini ly the extwaswrittenor copiedor one'wladislas',whoctn be denlifiedmostFobablywilh be agielloningofPolmd andHungarywhodiedn1,1,14,n thebattle f Vama).n therattdbutions,owever, annol e u edout.ln contrasto hescript,whichdatesrom he1430's.he hinecn

miniaturesseem o come rom the1490's:7hus, he extcanalsobelinkedwith WladislasI, kingofBohemia ndHungaryd. l5l6).Cefiainpassagesf the ext,however,seemo mply hat hepractitionersnot a king,onlyada, soourmanu-scriptmightbea copyofan earliercompilationserving hegoalsofWladislas, dukeof Opole d. 140I .In the ntroductionohisedition fthetex! publishedn 1928),NyszardG:utszyniecilentified sourcesorroughly wo hirdsofits prayers. ostof thesewerestandarditurgicalexts,though edid dentifyone rayer sderivingrom heSolomonicA/'.t,tdlr-id. The emaining rayers ecouldnol findsourcesor. to[gh heseemso have elt confidentndeclar-ins(moreaccuratelyhanhccouldhave nownatthe ime) hatnone flheprayerswasoriginal.eMorerecentlv nzulaBorkowska otedthat n thisprdyerbook"Marian


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Appendix:ManuscriptsiscoveredoThisPoint ontainingohn fMorigny'sorkSince ewmanuscriptsfJohnofMorignyhave een umingupal helate ofone or twoperyear t isdifficult to statc vith certainfy he otalnumber fextantmanuscriptsflheLiberyisionum.To date, evenmanusctiptsre nown oexistcontaining oreor ess 'ul rcxtsoftheLib(.t isionum .thats, extswiththe wholeautobiographicalrologueandsome rallofthe mcillary mai,eri,alsal theend). These nclude hevenjionsbund n he ollowingm:uruscnpls:Graz.Universiiirsbibliodlek,S6lio

London, ritish ibrar],Addition.rlt802"/Torino, ibliotec.rdzonale,. IL 25Wien,Schotlenkloscr,S 140(61)Wien,OsterreichischeNationalbiblioftek,S l3li59Salzburg,tudienbibliothekalzburg,MI24Seif nstetten,eilenstettenStitisbihliothek.S273

Paflial exts, onain ing heentireBook tt /t4a^ irn(l thc Book t)JIiil n Prors, but ot containingheautobioFaphicalrologuerthe u larray lancillarymaleriis ncludelHanlilton.Can:rdLr,cMastefUniversity ibrary.MS 107Miinchen, ayerischeStaarsbibliotheklm276Texts n whichsome fJohn'spruyersare oundadaptcdo anotherpurposeinclude:Oxford,Bodleian. S Rawlinsonlilurg.d.6 {CryslallomancyfWl.dis1.$)

Mainz,StadtbibliothekMainz, MS I138 'lhe Septemdietas, a lelectionofJohn's prayersadapted o en-hancement f grammaticalunder-standing)Miinchen,Univenitlitsbibliothek,oct. Cod. MS 213 (Preserves omeof the samepraycrsas the S?a?m../i,a.rr,houghwhether t is the sameor a related ext remains o be seen)

Notes:'According to chronicle ecords br thaitea\ see -csGnn.le! Chroniqucsd(/r,./,.?. ed.JulesViard-vol.9 (Paris:I-ibrairieancienne onorChampion.1937).23-4.I ldenlificxtion ofrhe text in Miinchen.Bayerische rJntsbiblio thek ln 276 wirhlhe chronicleaclouni ofrhe condemna-rion was lrst madeb)' J. DuPabe. L 'lrsnotoria-et a pol6r quesur a di\,inarionet la nagie inrnrirlk t lt Lrrttrarerscreli-qidtseen Fkrne uu XYIe sii(l(.Cuhi.^l;. L. Suttniet.1 lParisr E.N.S.deJeunes i l le ! .1987). 28. ote 2.Subsequent iscoveriesof dift erenln nusariprs fthistext were nadeindependently n the 1990s y SylvieBarnay n France nd Claire FangerandNicholasWarson n Canida. Foranalysisofrlre texl ind ns Mmology basedonTorino Bibliotec.tNuion,rlc C. II . 25. seeSylvie Barn.!y. L. rmariophanjeau egardde Jernde Morigny: magieou ni.acie dela visionmarialel hSociei6desIlistoriensMedi6vists del' Fnseignemenl uperieurPublic,Mt?cles,prodises et nencilles uu MorenAgc (Paris:Publicarions e .rSorbonne.19951.7: l 90. nd'D6si rdevoi retinlerditsvisionD.ue!ou la mariophanie'selonJeandeMorigny (Xlv siicle)' nrH.nn Reliriosus Pans:Fayard.1997).519 16. For analyses f John s ritualsrlterl. ils relalion o lhc Arf, ,o/r/r,?.and o Je\r sh myslicism.based rinrari yon !ersrcns n Miinche!. BayerischeStraLsbibliothek,llll 276 nd Hamilron.Cmrdn, McMaller Unirersity Library MS107.sceanicles by NicholasWitson.Clane -anger. ndRichardKieckheltr;rC. Fanger. d. .Colr/,r )i-' .tpt;.r: 7i,r/!

arul Ttdditio|s of Metiietal Ritudl Masi((UniversityPark,Pennsylvania: ennStareUniversirrr ress. 998),163 265.For an edirion of the a tobiographica]prologue o the ite. risi.,ntln based ntheversion n Gfdz. University -ibrnryMS680.seeClane FanserandNicholasWatson, 'The Prologue io John ofMorignt'sllrer I'iri./r,n: Texr andTranslation. Er,lcft.r 3(2000).hrtp://\ !wwesoter ic.msu.edu.nedi t ionof thccomplete ext b$ed on Cuz. UniversityLibrary MS 680 s curently in progress yClaire FangerandNicholas Waison.' In addition o lhe instance cscribed ntheprescnlarticlc. here s an adaptarionofcxce4rts om John sprayers br theenhancement f :f t mnl tical earning nthe r_.pk,/,r/ii,/dj conrained n Mainz-stadbibliorhek. MS I 138.'Fora pnbl ishcd di l ionoftheLat iD cxtand dctai lcd nr lysi t in Poi isb). eeLudwik Bernrcki ud Rylzardcansz],niec(eds.).Mo. tn'|tii| VkAslutot hrkeic:\'kt \ :hr,1tth BihlidekiBodlej.nis i \W dl i s u\, tUanen..\k !Ptuvt Book Ktpt in th. Bodleianarrturl). Knlo\!: Anczyc Sj6>ka. 928.' For a descriplionofthe conrentofrhisand the other Jagielloni,rn ra),erbooks.seeUhzula Borko$ska.K/.i/.,r'rtl.Mo.llite\,likt \Ptdtcr BooLs l onl.Kr.dtdlj,.Lubtrn.1999. specially: 4 76.I A roteworihy corcspondcnce uppotitrg this rssumptioD s that a respectedllgure ofthe rovaL ourt ofWlidislas ofVarna. HeDricusBohemus.wis accusedofkeeping necrorninlic books ndpursuing rysrallomancl.He rv!s !ilcdtbr his inclinartun o Iiussite ideas n1429.but n thc 11,10's e ivedtiee inKr*ow' WladislasPodLacha.N{injaturymodlitewnikaWhrnenczykaf'On theMiniaruresof the PrayerBook"). inModliter ik Wl.tdt rldva lltarnetic,'kd.93-1,11.'RyszardCanszyniec, 'OModl i tewnikuWlddr"snawa ( On WladisLasPfayerBook"). in rh. ite\rnik Irt&lj-sndvIl'athe . :\' kt. 25 93.'We aregralelul oJolanta Szpilcwsk! lbrallo$,ing us to consult her unpublished

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drali rranslalionfGanszyniec ntroduc

' Borkowska..346.

Llfiere stil1rcmah two or ihreepByersin lhe collectionN th unidentiliedsourccsi hesemay yct tum out to beodginal wiih ihe compiler.

rr ,\ll manuscripttofthe Liber iisionuitthat have come to our attentionup io thi!point: e ofNoflh llalian, German.or,\ustnan provenance.

Callor PapersTheSocictas agica asproposedto sponsorour sessionst the38thannual ntemational ongrcssonMedievai tudies,Kalamuqr,Michigan.May8-11,2003.Titlesof sessionsreas ollows:l .2.I

The Magic of the NledievalChurch: A Reconsiderationf Keith ThomasMagic, Politicsand EconomicsMagic and the Manipulationof Spirits: Angels,Demons, nd their KinMagic, Dreamsand Visions

Peopledoingesearchnmatcrialappropdateo fhese essionslrd nterestedn presenting paperat he1003Congress re nvited o contaclClaircFanger, [email protected]#1,Elmwood,ON NOG 1S0).

Deadlineor abstr cts s Septcmber 5.200f. Papers resenfedhouldnotexceed 0 minutes n length.

TheSocietasMagica nvitesproposalsor ssayso run in future issuesof the newsletter.Weare ooking br essays f 1500 o 2000wods cover-ingecent esearchn Ihehistoryof nagic and elated opics.in orie falioi bul neednotbe.Someol lhe opicswe aleconsiderilrgor fulurc ssuei;

includeArabic, Renaissance, nd.lenish Magic.Wearealso or*ing fol smaller ieccsbr our notes ndqueries olulnn:newsabout issertationsnprogrcss rconlpleted.manusciptdiscoveriesr othersuch tcmsareallwelcomed.

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Societas Magica - SMN Summer 2002 Issue 9