Grimoire n. a book of magic spells and invocations. From the mid 19th century: French, alteration of grammaire (grammar).
Oxford English Dictionary
This site is a collection of linked information about grimoires, focusing (with some distraction) on early modern Western European texts from the Christian tradition. The goal is to look at the connections and relationships within the metadata and subject matter of these grimoires, and attempt to collect factual information about their provenance and historical context.
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Grimoires
- Testament of Solomon (3rd century)
- Kyranides (4th century)
- Sepher Ha-Razim (4th century)
- Sworn Book of Honorious, The (13th century)
- Ars Notoria (13th century)
- Sefer Raziel HaMalakh (13th century)
- Picatrix (1256)
- Hygromanteia (15th century)
- Munich Manual of Demonic Magic (15th century)
- Book of Spirits, The (15th century)
- Art of Drawing Spirits into Crystals, The (15th century)
- Heptameron (1496)
- Steganographia (1499)
- On Nymphs, Sylphs, Pygmies and Salamanders (16th century)
- Book of Soyga (16th century)
- Archidoxes of Magic, The (1527)
- Three Books of Occult Philosophy (1531)
- Magiae Naturalis (1558)
- Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy (1560s)
- Cambridge Book of Magic, The (1560s)
- Book of the Office of Spirits, The (1563)
- Key of Solomon (1572)
- Arbatel of Magic (1575)
- Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (1577)
- Book of Oberon, The (1577)
- De Heptarchia Mystica (1582)
- Five Books of Mystery (1583)
- Liber Loagaeth (1583)
- Discoverie of Witchcraft, The (1584)
- Wagner-Volksbuch (1594)
- Grimoire of Armadel (17th century)
- Galdrabók, The (1600s)
- Book of Gold, The (17th century)
- Secrets of Solomon, The (17th century)
- Book of Abramelin, The (1608)
- Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis (1612)
- Magical Calendar, The (1620)
- Grimoire of Arthur Gauntlet, The (1630s)
- Enchiridion of Pope Leo, The (1633)
- Lesser Key of Solomon, The (1641)
- Book of Treasure Spirits (1655)
- Black Pullet, The (18th century)
- Clavis Inferni (18th century)
- Petit Albert (1706)
- Egyptian Secrets of Albertus Magnus (1725)
- Grimoire of Pope Honorius, The (1760)
- Romanus-Büchlein (1788)
- Verus Jesuitarum Libellus (19th century)
- Magus, The (1801)
- Grimorium Verum (1817)
- Long Lost Friend, The (1820)
- Black Books of Elverum, The (1820s)
- Grand Grimoire, The (1821)
- Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, The (1849)
- Book of All Forbidden Arts, The (1456)
- Touch Me Not! (1795)
- Book of Incantations (1810s)
- Mother Shipton's Wheel of Fortune (1861)
- Madam Le Marchand's Fortune Teller and Dreamers' Dictionary (1863)
- Book of Forbidden Knowledge, The (1950s)
Resources
If you can't find what you are looking for here, try some of these sites:
Twilit Grotto: the best resource for full texts of grimoires, with excellent scholarship.
Dan Harms' blog: well-researched articles on magical topics, and critical reviews of grimoire publications.
Sacred Texts, Hermetics.org, and the Internet Archive host a number of texts in the public domain.