Open Questions

Does Sloane 3191 name any Heptarchia personnel beyond the seven Kings and seven Princes?

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Does Sloane 3191 name any Heptarchia personnel beyond the seven Kings and seven Princes?},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/does-sloane-3191-name-any-heptarchia-personnel-beyond-the-seven-kings-and-seven-princes},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Open Question

The 2026-07-26 discovery and buildout design documents estimated 49 HeptarchicRoyalty rows for this table. Peterson's edition of Sloane MS 3191 and the parallel full text edition on archive.org name only fourteen individuals: the seven Heptarchical Kings and their seven Princes, one pair per day of the week. Each Prince is also described with a retinue of forty two attendant ministers, but the manuscript identifies these by table position or letter rather than by proper name, so seeding them as Name rows would mean inventing names Dee never gave them. c2-esoterica seeded the fourteen verified Kings and Princes on 2026-07-27 and left this gap open rather than closing it with fabricated rows.

What would resolve this A closer reading of the full Sloane 3191 folios, or a scholarly edition that resolves whether the forty two ministers per prince carry individual names anywhere in Dee's working papers, or whether the 49 estimate instead conflated the Heptarchia with a different Enochian roster (the ninety one Aethyr governors, or the Watchtower angels) that has its own separate naming scheme.

OpenEarly modern manuscript studies / history of Renaissance magicJohn Dee, edited by Joseph H. Peterson, De Heptarchia Mystica (Sloane MS 3191), Joseph H. Peterson's edition

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