De Quindecim Stellis

De Quindecim Stellis or the Book of Hermes on the Fifteen Fixed Stars, is the most important medieval and Renaissance source on the magic of the Behenian fixed stars which circulated in a number of different manuscript variants. Now for the first time, all four major variants of De Quindecim Stellis, Quadrapertitus, Tabula XV stellarum, Liber Enoch and Liber Thebit, with 7 variant sets of sigils, all appear in translation in one volume. Also included are major medieval and Renaissance sources reliant on De Quindecim Stellis including Marsilio Ficino and Cornelius Agrippa making this a truly comprehensive translation. The translator, Regulus Hess, is a researcher into the magic and lore of the Middle Ages and in addition to the excellent translations of De Quindecim Stellis, has provided a commentary, notes on the texts and extensive footnotes that give an extensive scholarly perspective. Also included is a commentary by Christopher Warnock who has been called 'the father of the