Kyle Harrison
research-paper

The Greater Key of Solomon

attributed to Solomon; ed. S. L. MacGregor Mathers 1889

TL;DR — The best-known Renaissance grimoire, scanned from BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. Public domain by age (pre-1929).

Digitized by the Internet Archive from the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah — which is its own small pleasure.

The Clavicula Salomonis is the most influential Western grimoire: pentacles, ritual instruction, the preparation of instruments. Pseudepigraphically attributed to Solomon, actually a Renaissance compilation, and the text through which most later ceremonial magic descends.

A primary source for the history of Western esotericism, filed as an artifact.

Where this came from

166 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.