A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 226
7 supposed to extricate from situations of danger and more especiallyfrom the assaults of robbers. Among the most frequent magicalwords are AGLA, which is compounded of the initial letters of fourHebrew words meaning Thou art great for ever, O Lord, andANANIZAPTA, regarded as a specific against the… … Fig. 146.—Wax disc engraved with magical names and figures ; used by Dr. Dee. writers as Claudius Ptolemy. It moves in the same atmosphereas the magic of the Middle Ages, and it has often been observedthat the methods of the magicians in the Arabian Nights arequite in harmony with those of their…
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