Lightfoot, Anthony (1613- )

Collection of works on magic: in Latin and English Original gilt stamped calf binding, lettered on cover 'Restat vincenti corona'. P. 15/16 cut out, but with no loss of text. Contents: Quaestiones quaedam ad daemonis sive genii cujusdam cognitionem adipiscendam, quas in vestibulo hujus libri affigere placuit. (3 ll.) Heywood (John). Of foreknowledge. (Epigram 76 of the 4th Centuria). De cura characteristica per imagines et sigilla (2 ll.). The book of Balemyn. De sigillis planetarum: in English, with pendrawings of sigils. Incomplete. (12 ll.) [Pseudo-Solomon.] Liber qui vocatur Shemamphoras. Incomplete. (2 ll.) Bacon (Roger). Regulae [magicae]. Incomplete. (3 ll.) Common-place book of extracts, in Latin. (12 ll).

Middle 17th century

1 volume 23 ll. + 12 bl. ll. + 3 ll. + 43 bl. ll. + 12 ll. + 36 bl. ll. + 1 l. 4to. 19 x 15 cm.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1930.

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).

On the first leaf is the name ''Anthonios podas okus ( = Lightfoot)', who is presumably the compiler. Above this 'T. Willoughby 0.5.9', probably Sir Thomas Willoughby, Baron Middleton [ -1729].