The Lesser Key of Solomon survives only in manuscript, not in any early printed edition, and no single date or named compiler can honestly be given for it; the principal witnesses are British Library manuscripts from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the text's own internal date of 1641 together with the fact that the Goetia section descends from a 1665 printing together set only a floor for how old the material is, not a settled date of composition. This atlas records that uncertainty directly rather than assigning a false precision. Use it as a primary record of what this specific manuscript tradition says; do not treat any single date or authorship claim about it as settled.
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An anonymous seventeenth century Solomonic grimoire surviving only in manuscript with no single compiler or date established, cited here as the tradition's own text rather than through any specific scholarly edition of it. NotesPublicationYear left NULL deliberately. The work survives in manuscript, not in an early printed edition, and no single date of composition is established. Principal witnesses include British Library Sloane 3825 (17th century), Sloane 3648 (c. 1665 or later), Sloane 3805 (1685) and Harley 6483 (1712-13). The date 1641 occurs in the text and the Goetia's catalogue descends from a printing of 1665, which together set a floor. No compiler is named in any manuscript.
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AuthorAnonymous (unidentified compiler)
URLhttps://sacred-texts.com/grim/lks/lks04.htm
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Solomon directly: "The Lesser Key of Solomon survives only in manuscript, not in any early printed edition, and no single date or named compiler can honestly be given for it; the principal witnesses are British..."
Source Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis (The Lesser Key of Solomon)Anonymous (unidentified compiler)
Claims Backed By This Source (1,046 claims)
This source backs 1,046 claims across the atlas. As facts: 800 well-attested. As cited relationships: 163 holds. Plus 83 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Goetic Demons, 865 claims: 648 well-attested, 144 holds, 73 general references.
- Articles, 92 claims: 92 well-attested.
- Spirit Ranks, 68 claims: 54 well-attested, 7 holds, 7 general references.
- Disciplines, 12 claims: 10 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Esoteric Texts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 holds.
Well-attested
800Articles
A Faculty Rather Than a CourtA Gentle Spirit in a Book of Evil SpiritsA Rank Invented for the FrontierAn Anthology That Reads as One BookAnswering Out of Burning AshesHaborym, Aym, AimHow Book One Is Put TogetherKing, Duke, Marquis, President: A Hierarchy on LoanNine Kings, and Why Precedence Is Not PowerOne Knight, and What a Category of One Tells YouSeventy-Two Legions, in a List of Seventy-TwoSolomonic and Goetic textsSuperiors the Catalogue Names but Does Not OrganiseThe Danger Clauses, and What They Are DoingThe Five Books of the LemegetonThe Goetic DukesThe Goetic EarlsThe Goetic KingsThe Goetic KnightsThe Goetic MarquisesThe Goetic PresidentsThe Goetic PrincesThe Goetic TextsThe Least Stable Title in the CatalogueThe Liberal Sciences, and the Appetite for a CurriculumThe Manuscripts, and the Date 1641The Rank That Means Nothing Was ClaimedThe Spirit Rank of DukeThe Spirit Rank of EarlThe Spirit Rank of KingThe Spirit Rank of KnightThe Spirit Rank of MarquisThe Spirit Rank of PresidentThe Spirit Rank of PrinceThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its LegionsThe Spirit, Its Rank and Its Legions Showing 1 to 50 of 172 entities carrying this claim.
Holds
163Showing 1 to 50 of 83 entities carrying this claim.
General References
83Showing 51 to 82 of 82 entities carrying this claim.
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