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The Cypriani Magici Septem Horae Magicae, the Seven Magic Hours of Cyprian the Mage, is a long-lost Book of Saint Cyprian, rumored to have existed but frustratingly lost to the mists of time – until it wasn’t.

Transcribed, translated and published here for the first time, accompanied by an in-depth introduction and historical and contextual analysis by José Leitão, this short text, besides being a treasure hunting book, is a complex object, offering instructions and recipes for consecration incenses and various magical implements, explicitly non-Solomonic methods for the performance of a pact with the spirit Lucifuge Rofocale, and suggesting his local relationship with the Iberian folk figures of the mouras encantadas. 

The Cypriani Magici Septem Horae Magicae presents itself as a rare window into the short but intense period when the Books of Saint Cyprian found themselves between manuscript and print, between folk and learned, and Iberia and Europe. It is a cultural treasure, an irreverent magic text and it poses more questions than it answers.

Cypriani Magici Septem Horae Magicae-José Leitão

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