The manuscript was sold at auction in 1692 and is now probably Sloane MS. The Sloane 8 version is also described as Tractatus Astrologico Magicus.Įlias Ashmole recorded that the Duke of Lauderdale owned a manuscript titled Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor that had formerly belonged to Dee. Goodreads members who liked Book of Soyga also liked: Ways of Seeing, The Pr. 908), under the title Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor by Dee scholar Deborah Harkness. Find books like Book of Soyga from the world’s largest community of readers. Titled Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor, Jennifer has no idea where to start and so she turns to the esteemed Yale professor, Matthew Bishop for help. 908 was donated to the Bodleian Library in 1605. The book was thought to have been lost, until 1994, when two manuscript copies located in the British Library (Sloane MS. When Jennifer Porters father dies from a mysterious illness, she inherits a 400-year-old book written in an unknown language that he had been trying to decode before his death. Elias Ashmole recorded that the Duke of Lauderdale owned a manuscript titled Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor that had formerly belonged to Dee. One copy is known to have been owned by John Dee. The Book of Soyga, also known as Alderaia is a 16th century treatise on magic.
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