The Lesser Key of Solomon, Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis, is an anonymous compilation assembled in the seventeenth century from older Solomonic manuscript material, with no single author or date the text itself will support, and this record states that compiled, multi-source origin honestly rather than presenting the work as a unified original composition. As a primary grimoire text it is authoritative for its own content, the five books it collects and the demon and spirit hierarchies they set out, checkable directly against the text, not for a settled account of who assembled it or when its individual sources were first written. Use it to establish what this specific compilation itself contains; a claim about the manuscript history of any one of its constituent books needs a dedicated study of that book's own transmission, since this record covers the compiled whole rather than any single source text within it.
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An anonymous grimoire assembled in the seventeenth century from older material with no single author or year established, cited as the tradition's own compiled text rather than through any specific scholarly edition of it. NotesAssembled in the seventeenth century from older material; no single author or year.
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AuthorAnonymous (multiple compilers)
Source Typeprimary-text
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This source names Solomon directly: "in the seventeenth century from older Solomonic manuscript material, with no single author or date the text itself will support, and this record states that compiled, multi-source origin honestly..."
Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)
This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 8 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 3 claims: 3 well-attested.
- Disciplines, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Esoteric Texts, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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