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Libra Esoterica

Babylonian magic and sorcery

being "The prayers of the lifting of the hand"

by Leonard William King

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Akkadian, English
  • Content type: Primary source
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The Cuneiform texts of Babylonian and Assyrian Incantations and magical formule from the Tablets of the Kuyunjik Collections. An old book on an even older subject.

Provenance

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “Magic” in the edition title.

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Editions

Open Library reports 4 editions; 3 cataloged here.

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1896-01-01T00:00:00Z—English—Public digitized item

being "The prayers of the lifting of the hand"

Open Library record

1975OlmsEnglish
  • 9783487056166
  • 348705616X
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being "The prayers of the lifting of the hand", the cuneiform texts of a group of Babylonian and Assyrian incantations and magical formulae edited with transliterations, translations and full vocabulary from tablets of the Kuyunjik collections preserved in the British Museum.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1896London : Luzac; LuzacAkkadian, English—Public

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Pratt - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 4 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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openlibrary-work:OL19139531W
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