--- product_id: 73350605 title: "The Secrets of Solomon: A Witch's Handbook from the trial records of the Venetian Inquisition" price: "1351910₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/73350605-the-secrets-of-solomon-a-witchs-handbook-from-the-trial store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # The Secrets of Solomon: A Witch's Handbook from the trial records of the Venetian Inquisition **Price:** 1351910₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Secrets of Solomon: A Witch's Handbook from the trial records of the Venetian Inquisition - **How much does it cost?** 1351910₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/73350605-the-secrets-of-solomon-a-witchs-handbook-from-the-trial) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This grimoire, or handbook of magic, was confiscated by the Venetian Inquisition in 1636 from practicing witches. After decades of searching for this elusive text, I now have the pleasure of presenting and translating it here for the first time. It contains their secret techniques for dealing with the more dangerous spirits or daemons, intentionally scattered and hidden within a collection of “secrets” comprising many detailed examples. Together these provide enough clues to enable practitioners to create their own spells for working with all the spirits cataloged.It distinguishes itself as a supplement to the better known Clavicula Salomonis ("Key of Solomon"); whereas that text focuses on aerial spirits, this one focuses on chthonic spirits.This text is one of the primary original sources for the popular Grimorium Verum. Review: Most legit medieval grimoire you are likely to find - Medieval grimoires survive in late editions with conflicting manuscripts due to scribal errors, abridging, portions lost to damage, or license. Producing a reference work involves consulting multiple editions, comparing their dates and considering their lineage. The end result is a patchwork best-guess as to what the original work would have been. This grimoire has the same issues, except that complete early edition was preserved by the Inquisition having been entered as evidence against the group that had it. Like so many, this fact was lost in a collection, but due to a series of happy events the author of this volume uncovered it and was able to obtain a facsimile. Being both early and complete is rare making this a rather unique volume. So what does that get the reader? Not only is this a critical edition with excellent sourcing (it has typeset Latin and English on facing pages, renderings of the original art and cleaned up versions for the English, and explanatory notes) it is prefaced with the work's lineage and sources and a succinct analysis of how the magic described is intended to function. The contents gives you insight into what the practitioners who employed it hoped to be able to achieve, how they hoped to achieve it, and their rationale for this hope. Given the case against the practitioners who had the copy that was entered as evidence it shows that the operation of magic was something that could be conducted by tradesmen, just regular people. Review: Too fast and too loose (revised addenda et corrigenda) - (2020 0130) I believe I have been too harsh on Peterson's effort. I have had a chance to read it against some of his sources and have to say he did a great job given the material and resources. There are areas where I disagree, I am open to discussion. I'll leave my original opinion as it stands. Concerning the "whistle" Peterson is quite right in the context. But, turner's direct source reads "sibiles" against the earlier editions of Agrippa/Abano, including the 1559 edition of Liber quartus", all read "sibilet". if get into it I might as well write a book. Peterson is sometimes too loose and fast with his material. I have only been able to get as far as the index on the Venice website. Barbierato is a great resource, but "Nella Stanza..." is only available in Italian and practically unobtainable in the US. I have a copy I found in Italy. He has, however, two good resources in English that give his thoughts on the subject: Magical Literature and the Venice Inquisition... and his full-length book "Inquisitor in the Hat Shop" both are excellent, but expensive. When I say Peterson plays fast and loose allow me to offer an example. On page xi of his introduction fn 1 he says: "Heptameron likewise employs a whistle, although the translation by Robert Turner leaves the passage untranslated, and Francis Barrett in his 1801 book 'The Magus' mistranslates 'sibilet' (he should whistle: as 'there will be hissings' completely missing the point." Yes the passage is not translated in the Turner's 1655 edition, however Peterson seems completely unaware that in second revised edition, 1665, Turner translated all the Latin conjurations and orations and says plainly "'...there will be hissings..." Peterson is taking it out of context; the passage does not refer to a whistle, but to the sound the spirits make if the conjuration is successful also 'hissing' is a legitimate rendering of 'silibet' (which see "L and W Latin dictionary" or Niermeyer's "Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon"). Each case involves two different contexts, the first describing ritual events and the other an action performed by the practitioner. I would call Peterson's rendering of the "sibilabis" passage (Secrets of Solomon, p 86) as "...you should whistle towards the four parts of the world..." into doubt. I think Peterson's text is from the inquisition records which I have not been able to access; I did find it in his P manuscript (p45r) and the Latin is the same (have not yet looked at his other mss). Peterson uncritically refers to Francis Barrett in the same note. Barrett was not reading his text in Latin but taking it literally out of the 1783 reprint of Turner's second ed. This is confirmed by a line a little further on that reads: "...shew them the pentacle covered in fine linnen(sic); uncover it and say, Behold your conclusion, in you refuse to be obedient..." this is Turner's rendering in the 1665 ed. However, the 1783 reprint has a typographical error, instead of "conclusion" it reads "confusion". '"Conclusion" (i.e. conclusionem) is supported in all the Latin texts printed from 1559 through c1783. So Peterson's innuendo that "Barrett completely missed the point" is groundless and specious. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #393,897 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,311 in Magic Studies (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 112 Reviews | ## Images ![The Secrets of Solomon: A Witch's Handbook from the trial records of the Venetian Inquisition - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81PYmbNZqFL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Most legit medieval grimoire you are likely to find *by H***A on September 1, 2025* Medieval grimoires survive in late editions with conflicting manuscripts due to scribal errors, abridging, portions lost to damage, or license. Producing a reference work involves consulting multiple editions, comparing their dates and considering their lineage. The end result is a patchwork best-guess as to what the original work would have been. This grimoire has the same issues, except that complete early edition was preserved by the Inquisition having been entered as evidence against the group that had it. Like so many, this fact was lost in a collection, but due to a series of happy events the author of this volume uncovered it and was able to obtain a facsimile. Being both early and complete is rare making this a rather unique volume. So what does that get the reader? Not only is this a critical edition with excellent sourcing (it has typeset Latin and English on facing pages, renderings of the original art and cleaned up versions for the English, and explanatory notes) it is prefaced with the work's lineage and sources and a succinct analysis of how the magic described is intended to function. The contents gives you insight into what the practitioners who employed it hoped to be able to achieve, how they hoped to achieve it, and their rationale for this hope. Given the case against the practitioners who had the copy that was entered as evidence it shows that the operation of magic was something that could be conducted by tradesmen, just regular people. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Too fast and too loose (revised addenda et corrigenda) *by G***S on January 21, 2020* (2020 0130) I believe I have been too harsh on Peterson's effort. I have had a chance to read it against some of his sources and have to say he did a great job given the material and resources. There are areas where I disagree, I am open to discussion. I'll leave my original opinion as it stands. Concerning the "whistle" Peterson is quite right in the context. But, turner's direct source reads "sibiles" against the earlier editions of Agrippa/Abano, including the 1559 edition of Liber quartus", all read "sibilet". if get into it I might as well write a book. Peterson is sometimes too loose and fast with his material. I have only been able to get as far as the index on the Venice website. Barbierato is a great resource, but "Nella Stanza..." is only available in Italian and practically unobtainable in the US. I have a copy I found in Italy. He has, however, two good resources in English that give his thoughts on the subject: Magical Literature and the Venice Inquisition... and his full-length book "Inquisitor in the Hat Shop" both are excellent, but expensive. When I say Peterson plays fast and loose allow me to offer an example. On page xi of his introduction fn 1 he says: "Heptameron likewise employs a whistle, although the translation by Robert Turner leaves the passage untranslated, and Francis Barrett in his 1801 book 'The Magus' mistranslates 'sibilet' (he should whistle: as 'there will be hissings' completely missing the point." Yes the passage is not translated in the Turner's 1655 edition, however Peterson seems completely unaware that in second revised edition, 1665, Turner translated all the Latin conjurations and orations and says plainly "'...there will be hissings..." Peterson is taking it out of context; the passage does not refer to a whistle, but to the sound the spirits make if the conjuration is successful also 'hissing' is a legitimate rendering of 'silibet' (which see "L and W Latin dictionary" or Niermeyer's "Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon"). Each case involves two different contexts, the first describing ritual events and the other an action performed by the practitioner. I would call Peterson's rendering of the "sibilabis" passage (Secrets of Solomon, p 86) as "...you should whistle towards the four parts of the world..." into doubt. I think Peterson's text is from the inquisition records which I have not been able to access; I did find it in his P manuscript (p45r) and the Latin is the same (have not yet looked at his other mss). Peterson uncritically refers to Francis Barrett in the same note. Barrett was not reading his text in Latin but taking it literally out of the 1783 reprint of Turner's second ed. This is confirmed by a line a little further on that reads: "...shew them the pentacle covered in fine linnen(sic); uncover it and say, Behold your conclusion, in you refuse to be obedient..." this is Turner's rendering in the 1665 ed. However, the 1783 reprint has a typographical error, instead of "conclusion" it reads "confusion". '"Conclusion" (i.e. conclusionem) is supported in all the Latin texts printed from 1559 through c1783. So Peterson's innuendo that "Barrett completely missed the point" is groundless and specious. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic material *by A***R on September 2, 2022* This is important information for all those who love old grimoires. It has a lot of similarities with the Grimorium Verum, but is unique in its own way as well. And of course Joseph Peterson is very knowledgeable in this field and gets the smallest details correct every time. 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