Five medieval love spells

Ms Plutei 89 Sup.38, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Florence, is a large collection of magical texts written in the XV…

Mythical Origins of the Visconti Coat of Arms

Near year 1000, in Northern Italy the vice-comes (viscount) was an official…

Invocation to Saturn in Darmstadt MS Hs-1410

Mihai Vârtejaru has a fascinating blog about magical seals / sigils. I mentioned…

Conjuration ciphers in Trithemius’s “Steganographia”

Indian Images of the Decans in Medieval Europe

Each of 36 decans, also known as faces, corresponds to a 10-degrees segment of…

Neural-Network transliteration of the Codex Seraphinianus

Zipf’s Law and Angelic Languages

In his essay “Angelic language or mortal folly?” (in “The Complete Enochian Dictionary”, 1978)…