Pseudo-Solomon

La Clavicule de Salomon Roy des Hébreux traduite de l'Hébreux en Italien par Abraham Colorno par ordre de S. A. S. de Mantoue, mise nouvellement en françois. Illustrated with numerous coloured pen-drawn figures of pentacles, sigils, etc.: text within red rules.

mid-18th century

1 volume 2 ll. (first bl.). + 274 pp. + 3 ll. 4to. 231/2 × 18 cm. Original calf binding, worn.

Purchased 1936.

According to the Jewish Encyclopaedia, Abraham Colorno was born about 1530, and was alive in the last decade of the 16th century. He published the original Latin translation of this work at Mantua c. 1580.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).