Planetary and Astral Characters

In Wellcome 110

Mihai Vârtejaru

Originally published on 13.02.2018

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Wellcome Library Manuscript 110 is a late 16th century
manuscript with a lot of content to offer.

Wellcome Ms.110, fol 63v.

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Contents:
1. [Pseudo-SOLOMON]. Ars notoria. Incomplete at beginning
and end. (ll. 1-35).
2. [Pseudo-SOLOMON.] Vincula. (ll. 36-38.).
3. Pseudo-BACON (R.). Thesaurus spirituum. (ll. 39v-98.) The
beginning is wanting: the colophon on 1.98 reads: 'Explicit
theasurus spirituum utilis et fidelssime editus per magistrum
Bakon et quendam Turcum eius socium predilectum'.
4. Miscellaneous conjurations, etc.: in Latin. (ll. 98v-101v.).
5. Flores extracti de libello qui nuncupatur 'Offitium spirituum',
with other conjurations, etc.: mainly in Latin, a few in English.
(ll. 101v-111).

Sadly, the secretary hand employed is rather hard for me to read

and I cannot vouch for the correctness of the angel names
transcribed and the quality of the pentacles and diagrams is the
worst I have ever seen in any manuscript, something that can
lead us to think the characters themselves might contain errors.

Nevertheless they are very interesting and worth the trouble of

extracting.

This article does not treat the figures of the manuscript

exhaustively. I have not extracted the diagrams and circles, the
various seals of the experiments, nor the planetary characters
that appear dispersed throughout.

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 1. Characters of planetary ”Angels”

Fol.68r

Storax Angelus Solis cuius caracterus (est)

Storax, the angel of the Sun, whose character is

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 Abametra Angelus Veneris cuius caracterus (est)
Abametra, the angel of Venus, whose character is

Paymon angelus Mercurij cuius caracter

Paymon, the angel of Mercury, whose character is

Carmelyon angelus Lunae cuius caracter

Carmelyon, the angel of the Moon, whose character is

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 Orcorion angelus capitis draconis cuius caracter
Orcorion, the angel of the Head of the Dragon, whose character
is

Glozilus (?)angelus Saturni cuius caracter

Glozilus, the angel of Saturn, whose character is

Phinemon (?) angelus Jovis cuius caracter

Phinemon, the angel of Jupiter, whose character is

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 Carnifex angelus Martis cuius caracter
Carnifex, the angel of Mars, whose character is

These angels are most likely demons and are cited in some astral
magic treatises regarding the use of rings and sacrifices.
In Conjuring Spirits, Juris Lidaka gives us a transcript and
translation of Bokenham`s Book of Angels, Rings, Characters
and Images of the Planets, where he cites a work of the
sage Messayaac, on pages 47-49: The Experimentum of
Master Messayaac of the Secrets of the Planetary Spirits. After
a detailed descriptions of the sacrifices and rites to make the
rings, (the seven planets plus the Head of the Dragon), he says
he deliberately left out the names and the characters, but they
begin with Storax, Abamecta, Paymon and others. So this is
quite obviously the same work.

According to the Book Of Oberon (Harms/Clark/Peterson),

Storax, the angel of the Sun and Carmelion, the Angel of the
Moon, rule over the spirit Oberion. Storax appears with 6
variations of his seal, many resembling the present, and
Carmelion with 8 variations.

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2. Planetary Signs
Saturn

Jupiter

Mars

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 Sun

Venus

Mercury

Moon

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 Fol.30r: hec sunt signa planetarum: these are the signs of the
planets

These are isolated symbols that bare close resemblance to the

images of the planets shown in the Magical Calendar in in Ms.
Harley 3420.
The following three suits of planetary characters and seals and
their dependence upon other texts, both published and in
manuscript, will be studied in a future article. Superficial
resemblances and insufficient data in this field often leads to
incorrect attributions and I would like to steer off from that
particular direction.

3. Planetary Characters (Caracteres): Fol.63v

Saturn

Jupiter

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 Mars

Sun

Venus

Mercury

Moon

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4. Planetary Characters (Caracteres): Fol.110r

Saturn

Jupiter

Mars

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 Sun

Venus

Mercury

Moon
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5.Planetary Seals (Sigillis): Fol.111r

Venus

Sun

Moon
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Mercury

Jupiter

Mars

Saturn
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 6. Zodiacal Characters

1.Aries 2.Taurus (Sic)

3.Gemini 4.Cancer

5.Leo 6.Virgo

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 7.Libra 8.Scorpio

9.Sagittarius 10.Capricorn

11.Aquarius 12.Pisces

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