The Complete Grimoire of Pope Honorius

I agree this is very disappointing. What makes this in any way "complete" I have been researching the honorian grimoire for many years and this falls far shot of a useful presentation. Rankine is content to repeat past errors and make specious remarks vis a vis the importance of this work. It is clear he has done very little research. Let me remark also that one manuscript does not make a general statement concerning the rest of the literature. He has virtually nothing to say about the honorian ritual comprising the first part of the book. He has a penchant to take the dates of the print editions at face value, how does can he distinguish between a back dated nineteenth century colportage issue and one issued before 1800? His introduction is little more than a series of mostly irrelevant anecdotes and mistaken impressions. One of the most annoying things is that he repeats the errors he made in other works. Point: there is no 1641 Lemegeton; 1641 is an internal reference in the third part. I daresay he cannot tell the significance of the date March 10, 1641 mentioned therein. Returning to the honorian grimoire his organization is dismal, even knowing that the print dates are false he still does not follow the chronology. His 1760 example follows the content of my 1670 edition. His 1670 issue is clearly the Blocquel edition issued between 1818-1840. Even more importantly he barely acknowledges the manuscript examples in the Bibliotheque National. I could go on at length, but my critique is many pages longer than his introduction. The print versions of the Honorian grimoire were created as commercial items distributed by a network of colportuers to a semi literate customer base. The same cannot be said for the manuscripts versions which have been very under studied in scholarly circles. There are at least three at the Bibliotheque National all penned sometime in the eighteenth century, may be if we ask nicely enough Gallica would post them on line for study. There are also possibly examples dating back to 1629, but so far all I have are tentative titles.

here we have a complilation of the more relevant copies of the Grimoire Honorius with both groups of magical secrets and variant sets of diagrams. Although , if you are familiar with this book and ritual there's no big surprises. it is Invaluable to have this complilation as this grimoire has such a wide influence amongst other Classical grimoires.The Paperback is well executed and the Annotations are to the point. Good work.

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In this edition, Mr.Rankine contrasts and compares 4 French Editions of this Grimoire as well as a 19th Century German edition. One of the French Editions has never before been translated into English. This is a marvelous "ultimate edition" of one of the most influential Grimoires of all time. Highly Reccomended!

Pretty good read

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A confusing book,there are a few good spells but the way the text and images are layed out causes you to flip flop looking for what image goes with what spell,a poor system,it would of been so simple to put each spell and charm complete with the image so you dont get a headache trying to put it together.

Yet again Rankine has done a wonderful job by bringing previously unavailable material into the accessible realm, David has not just published one manuscript, but has included all available manuscripts, making this the most complete edition of this famous grimoire thus printed, this is a book for the practising magician, the armchair critic should stick to his local library, all of David Rankine s books are of a very high standard and I cannot recommend them enough, especially for the practising magus.

Gives Latin version

Not shabby

Brilliant book & service thankyou.

64$ is way too expensive and not worth for a print on demand book.With all respect to Rankine, I have just go through all pages, editing seems okay, graphics not always perfect, some very pale... just the feel of the pages you can tell its a POD book, and thus, asking a high premium is a no go...!I understand that POD is a great way for author to publish with ease...but hey, for an about 10$ to print book, the entrance ticket is definitely overpriced.I will now always stay away from Avalonia books.Quality is just not there.