The 36 36×36 tables of letters form a cipher Dee couldn’t decode. From Blog of Wonders, the only place I could find a linkable image. “Book of Soyga”, Table 1 (Aries), Bodleian Library, Oxford University, MS Bodley, 908, fol. Most is in Latin, a language Dee read and spoke fluently, but it was the tables at the back that stumped him. Turns out it’s a medieval-ish magical treatise with the things you’d expect: astrological conjunctions, magical spells, lists of demons and angels. 908) under the name “Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor”. Then in 1994 Dee scholar Deborah Harkness found copies in both the British Library (Sloane MS. From One Wiki To Rule Them All.įor years scholars thought the book lost when Dee’s library was looted and sold off, and some even speculated that it was the real name of the Voynich Manuscript, based on no real evidence I can find. What was the Book of Soyga, and why was Dee so eager to read it? I feel justified using this image as Gandalf was one of many fictional wizards clearly based on John Dee. There’s no suggestion that Kelley had heard of the book but “Uriel” recovered nicely, telling Dee that it was given to Adam in Eden and only readable by the archangel Michael. So asked John Dee of the angel Uriel at his first séance with Edward Kelley in March 1582.
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