#The Black School at Wittenburg

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Pentagram seal, from Cyprianus, 18th C

Illustration in black ink showing pentagram seal - a five-pointed star with magical symbols. From Cyprianus, 18th century. Cyprianus is also known as the Black Book, and is the textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, the book from which a witch or sorceror gets his spells. The Black School at Wittenburg was purportedly a place in Germany where one went to learn the black arts.

Archives & Manuscripts – Wellcome Collection

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The Clavis Inferni ("The Key of Hell") by Cyprianus, is a late-18th-century book on black magic. Written in a mixture of Latin, Hebrew, and a cipher alphabet (namely that of Cornelius Agrippa's Transitus Fluvii or "Passing through the River" from the Third Book of Occult Philosophy written around 1510) the book has remained rather mysterious due to its unknown origin and context. It is said to be a textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, a supposed school somewhere in Germany where one could learn the dark arts. As for the name of the author, it seems to have become a common name for people practicing magic. Benjamin Breen writes in The Appendix of how the existence throughout history of various magically-inclined Cyprianuses - from "a Dane […] who was so evil that Satan cast him out of hell" to the Greek wizard St. Cyprian of Antioch (who later converted to Christianity) - led to the name becoming a popular pseudonym for "people at the edges of society who were trying to do real black magic".

welcome collection/ PDR

#black magic #cyprianus #books #occult

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The serpent Ouroboros surrounding a circle with lettering in Latin and Hebrew, pen and watercolour drawing from Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona (late 18th century; called the Black Book), a sourcebook for spells in the black arts, that was the textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, Germany, purportedly where witches and sorcerers went to learn black magic.

#art #mysticism #Occult Magic

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Ouroboros The serpent Ouroboros surrounding a circle with lettering in Latin and Hebrew, pen and watercolour drawing from Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona (late 18th century; called the Black Book) by M.L. Cyprianus. The Black Book, a sourcebook for spells in the black arts, was the textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, Germany, purportedly where witches and sorcerers went to learn black magic.

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M.L. Cyprianus. The Serpent Ouroboros. 1700s. 

Page from Cyprianus showing the serpent Ouroboros surrounding a circle with lettering in Latin and Hebrew. Cyprianus is also known as the Black Book, and is the textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, the book from which a witch or sorceror gets his spells. The Black School at Wittenburg was purportedly a place in Germany where one went to learn the black arts. Pen and watercolour. M. L. Clavis Inferni sive magia alba et nigra approbata Metratona. -Wellcome Library, London. 

#cyprianus #the serpent ouroboros #black book #the black school at wittenburg #the black arts #the wellcome library #london #germany #magic #alchemy #18th century #pen and watercolour #1700s

[nobrashfestivity]

The Clavis Inferni ("The Key of Hell") by Cyprianus, is a late-18th-century book on black magic. Written in a mixture of Latin, Hebrew, and a cipher alphabet (namely that of Cornelius Agrippa's Transitus Fluvii or "Passing through the River" from the Third Book of Occult Philosophy written around 1510) the book has remained rather mysterious due to its unknown origin and context. It is said to be a textbook of the Black School at Wittenburg, a supposed school somewhere in Germany where one could learn the dark arts. As for the name of the author, it seems to have become a common name for people practicing magic. Benjamin Breen writes in The Appendix of how the existence throughout history of various magically-inclined Cyprianuses - from "a Dane […] who was so evil that Satan cast him out of hell" to the Greek wizard St. Cyprian of Antioch (who later converted to Christianity) - led to the name becoming a popular pseudonym for "people at the edges of society who were trying to do real black magic".

welcome collection/ PDR

#Cyprianus #black magic #books #illustration