Arbatel de magia veterum

Record summary

AI-recalled lead: Arbatel de magia veterum is a concise Latin magical text printed at Basel in 1575 and organized around spiritual intelligences, planetary governors, moral conduct and practical aphorisms. Unlike more elaborate grimoires, it presents magic within an explicitly Christian and philosophical framework, making it useful for comparison with learned demonology, astrology and angelic mediation. Its author and immediate context are uncertain, and later occultists often expanded its meaning beyond the text’s limited surviving form. Its existence is secure; many attribution claims are not.