![]() The text is carefully copied out and the first thing that strikes the eye is that the first letter of its first line is drawn in the form of a little devil. The manuscript in question is a Latin translation of the four hundred page Hebrew text on angelic invocation, Sefer-ha-Raziel, now MS. 1 Menasseh’s magical manuscript has never been conclusively identified, but there is a text now preserved in Queen Christina’s collection in Rome that brings us closer to evaluating Menasseh’s offer. ![]() One of these was entitled Magia cabalistica the Rabbi spoke highly of it, Le Blon pointed out, ‘duquel it fait très grand estat’. In the fall of 1650, Christina of Sweden’s artistic consultant in Amsterdam, the engraver Michel le Blon (1587-1658) offered the Queen some 20 manuscripts from R.
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