MSS Folger V.b.26 Book of Magic, with Instructions for Invoking Spirits - ca. (1577-1583)
The Goetia of Solomon relied on the English translation of Weyer's Pseudomonarchia Daemonum that appeared in Reginald Scot's The Discoverie of Witchcraft. Weyer cited as his source a manuscript called Liber officiorum spirituum, seu Liber dictus Empto. Salomonis, de principibus & regibus dæmoniorum ("Book of the offices of spirits, or the book called Empto. Salomonis concerning the princes and kings of the demons").
The original Book of the Offices of Spirits was probably written in Latin, but MSS Folger V.b.26 contains a copy of the Book of the Offices of Spirits which is mostly in English. You can read it by clicking HERE.
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