{"id":2251,"date":"2014-09-03T02:54:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T02:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?page_id=2251"},"modified":"2015-03-29T02:56:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T02:56:24","slug":"klaassen-2014-congress","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/klaassen-2014-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Klaassen (2014 Congress)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Frank Klaassen<br \/>\n(<em>University of Saskatchewan<\/em>)<br \/>\n&#8220;The Visual Trappings of Magic: \u00a0McGill University, Special Collections, MCG 117&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abstract of Paper Presented at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 2014)<br \/>\nSession on <strong>\u201cVisualizing Learned Magic and Popular Magic through Talismans, Images, and Objects\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\nCo-sponsored by the <strong>Societas Magica<\/strong> and the <strong>Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong><br \/>\nOrganized by David Porreca (<em>University of Waterloo<\/em>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2014-congress-accomplished\"><strong>2014 Congress Accomplished<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[<em>First published on our first website on 19 March 2014<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>McGill MSG 177 was written by Fabian Humfrey in 1576. \u00a0By that time he must have been a man of mature years as he had joined the merchant\u2019s guild in Oxford in 1550. \u00a0The modern cataloguer of the manuscript presumed the contents to be magic, due to its curious figures and the fact that most of its 400 folios are written in cipher. \u00a0In fact, since the overwhelming majority of its pages and figures contain prayers and religious formulae, one might reasonably assume it to be a relative of the <em>Ars notoria<\/em>. \u00a0Instead, the work is a complex but straightforward work of affective piety and betrays no overtly Roman inclinations that might explain the cipher. \u00a0So the work remains curious.<\/p>\n<p>I will describe the text, the appearance of the manuscript, and the ciphers and relate these to similar examples in the tradition of ritual magic. \u00a0I will also attempt to locate the text within the traditions of late medieval devotion as well as within the shifting religious world of Elizabethan England. \u00a0Finally, I will try to puzzle out why Humfrey took such trouble to write it all in cypher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Klaassen (University of Saskatchewan) &#8220;The Visual Trappings of Magic: \u00a0McGill University, Special Collections, MCG 117&#8221; Abstract of Paper Presented at the 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, May 2014) Session on \u201cVisualizing Learned Magic and Popular Magic through Talismans, Images, and Objects\u201d Co-sponsored by the Societas Magica and the Research Group on Manuscript [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2251\/revisions\/3845"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}