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Which grimoires attribute authorship to Solomon and what does each claim?
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Three works in the catalog carry Solomon's name, and each makes a different claim about what the king handed down.
The Key of Solomon the King presents itself as instructions Solomon left to his son Rehoboam: preparations, hours, and the drawing of pentacles. Mathers' 1889 edition collates several Latin and French manuscripts and says so in its preface.
The Lesser Key of Solomon is a later compilation; its first book, the Goetia, claims to list the seventy-two spirits Solomon confined in a brass vessel. The attribution is conventional rather than argued.
The Testament of Solomon is the earliest text (late antique, in Greek) and frames the material as Solomon's own account of building the Temple with demons compelled by a ring.
The attribution is a claim these texts make about themselves; the catalog descriptions treat it as pseudepigraphic. Dates for the manuscript traditions are uncertain and vary by edition.
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