{"id":17771,"date":"2023-05-30T22:33:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T22:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/?p=17771"},"modified":"2023-08-11T16:37:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T16:37:58","slug":"episode-12-vajra-regan-on-engraved-magic-and-astrological-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/episode-12-vajra-regan-on-engraved-magic-and-astrological-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 12:  Vajra Regan on Engraved Magic and Astrological Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Research Group Speaks<br \/>\n<em>Episode 12<br \/>\n<\/em>Saturda<span style=\"color: #000000;\">y 12 Au<\/span>gust 2023 online<br \/>\n1:00\u20132:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The Sources of the Engraved Magic and Astrological Images<br \/>\nin the <strong>Book of Sigils<\/strong> (<em>Liber Sigillorum<\/em>)<br \/>\nand the <strong>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/strong> (<em>The Goal of the Wise<\/em>)&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vajra Regan<\/h2>\n<p>[<em>Posted on 30 May 2023, with updates<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to attend <strong>Episode 12<\/strong> in our series.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/cc\/the-research-group-speaks-a-series-1401939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Research Group Speaks<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our Associate, <a href=\"https:\/\/utoronto.academia.edu\/VajraRegan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vajra Regan<\/a> will speak about the subject of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brepols.net\/products\/IS-9782503603780-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new joint publication<\/a>, which has now appeared in early August 2023, a few days before our event.\u00a0 Vajra&#8217;s presentation about this project and the process towards its publication explores explore the subject of visual imagery for astrological magic as transmitted across time, languages, and cultural settings.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, Vajra has presented papers and organized Sessions for the RGME and our co-sponsor, the Societas Magica, since 2019.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/regan-2019-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regan (2019 Congress)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/abstracts\/regan-2020-congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regan (2020 Congress)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/2022-international-congress-on-medieval-studies-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 International Congress on Medieval Studies Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These activities allow us to continue to learn about Vajra&#8217;s research as it continues to expand, to deepen, and to unfold.\u00a0 We are glad for his offer to talk with us for the Episode.<\/p>\n<h2>Vajra&#8217;s Plan for the Episode, in his Own Words<\/h2>\n<h3>The Title<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;The Sources of the Engraved Magic and Astrological Images<br \/>\nin the <strong>Book of Sigils<\/strong> (<em>Liber Sigillorum<\/em>)<br \/>\nand the <strong>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/strong> (<em>The Goal of the Wise<\/em>)&#8221;<\/h3>\n<h3>The Abstract<\/h3>\n<p>The twelfth century saw the translation into Latin of a group of Arabic texts on astrological <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image_magic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">image magic<\/a> with titles such as <em>The Book of Planets<\/em> (<em>Liber Planetarum<\/em>), <em>The Stations of the Cult of Venus<\/em> (<em>De stationibus ad cultum Veneris<\/em>), and <em>The Book of Venus<\/em> (<em>Liber Veneris<\/em>). These texts, usually attributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hermes_Trismegistus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hermes<\/a> or one of his retinue, provided detailed instructions relating to the liturgy of the planets and the fabrication of engraved astrological images or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talisman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">talismans<\/a>. Unfortunately, in the following centuries, they were systematically suppressed to such an extent that today many survive in only one or two late manuscripts.<\/p>\n<p>Although long recognized as important to the history of learned magic in the West, these texts have so far received little scholarly attention.\u00a0 Consequently, the precise nature and extent of their influence have remained largely a matter of conjecture.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17773\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17773\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17773 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia-300x248.jpg\" alt=\"Martin, Slovakia, Slovak National Library, Fragment of the Picatrix, circa 1400 CE. Image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin, Slovakia, Slovak National Library, Fragment of the Picatrix, circa 1400 CE. Image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As part of the series \u201cThe Research Group Speaks,\u201d I examine the Hermetic <em>Liber planetarum<\/em> and its connection to two important books of magic, the <em>Liber sigillorum<\/em> of Techel and the <strong>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/strong> (&#8220;The Goal of the Wise&#8221;) or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Picatrix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picatrix<\/a>. The talk both summarizes and expands on the research that Lauri Ockenstr\u00f6m and I have presented in our recent article, \u201cThe Hermetic Origins of the <em>Liber sigillorum<\/em> of Techel\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brepols.net\/products\/IS-9782503603780-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Journal of Medieval Latin 33 [2023]<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Liber sigillorum<\/em> is a twelfth-century treatise on precious stones and the images of power engraved on them.\u00a0 Although little known today, it was arguably the most widely copied <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lapidary_(text)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lapidary<\/a> of the late Middle Ages, second only to the <em>Liber lapidum<\/em> of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marbodius_of_Rennes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marbode of Rennes<\/a> (ca. 1035\u2013 1123); moreover, like the <em>Liber lapidum<\/em>, Techel\u2019s treatise exerted a broad influence that extended well beyond the lapidary literature, narrowly defined. It was given serious consideration by the scholastic encyclopedists, by philosophers such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albertus_Magnus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Albert the Great<\/a>, and by medieval <em>medici<\/em> such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pietro_d%27Abano\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Peter of Abano<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thomas_of_Cantimpr%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas of Cantimpr\u00e9<\/a> (ca. 1200 \u2013 1270) included a version in his <em>Liber de natura rerum<\/em> through which it was transmitted to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conrad_of_Megenberg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Konrad von Megenberg<\/a> (1309\u20131374), author of the <em>Buch der Natur<\/em>, the first German-language <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">natural history<\/a>, and then to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paracelsus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paracelsus<\/a> (ca. 1493 \u2013 1541).\u00a0 The physician and astrologer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camillo_Leonardi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camillo Leonardi<\/a> included no less than three different versions of Techel in his <em>Speculum lapidum<\/em> (1502).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17790\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17790\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17790 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-39-top-left-283x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-39-top-left-283x300.png 283w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-39-top-left-967x1024.png 967w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-39-top-left-142x150.png 142w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-39-top-left-768x813.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-39-top-left.png 1218w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original (1881), folio 1r detail. Image via Creative Commons via https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The versions published by these authors represent only a fraction of the whole. Numerous others may be found spread across nearly a hundred manuscripts preserved in libraries around the world.\u00a0 Nevertheless, despite its popularity, the Latin tradition of the <em>Liber sigillorum<\/em> has never been the subject of systematic study, and many questions still surround the origins of the text. While it is generally agreed that core parts of the early text are translations, scholars have offered conflicting opinions as to the original language.\u00a0 David Pingree believed that a Greek exemplar lay behind the Latin text (&#8220;The Diffusion of Arabic Magical Texts in Western Europe,\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseq.it\/scienze-e-natura\/58306-la-diffusione-delle-scienze-islamiche-nel-medio-evo-europeo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">La diffusione delle scienze islamiche nel Medio Evo europeo [1987]<\/a>), while Katelyn Mesler, noting certain similarities with the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Picatrix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picatrix<\/a> (<strong>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/strong>) has argued for an Arabic original (&#8220;The Medieval Lapidary of Techel\/Azareus on Engraved Stones and Its Jewish Appropriations&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.2979\/aleph.14.2.75\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">Aleph 14:2 [2014]<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The images in the <em>Liber sigillorum<\/em> are indeed remarkably similar to those in the <em><i>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/i><\/em>; however, their origin lies in the Latin translation of the <em>Liber planetarum<\/em>, a copy of which is preserved in a unique manuscript in the National Library of Florence (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirabileweb.it\/manuscript\/firenze-biblioteca-nazionale-centrale-ii-iii-214-manuscript\/10826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, II.III.214<\/a>).\u00a0 This origin is proven by a comparison of the images and the language of their descriptions.\u00a0 A comparison of the images also suggests that the lost Arabic original of the <em>Liber planetarum<\/em> was one of the sources of the <strong>Gh\u0101yat al-Hak\u012bm<\/strong>.\u00a0 A survey of other Hermetic texts translated into Latin in the twelfth century, and belonging to the same group as the <em>Liber planetarum<\/em>, suggests that they too might transmit some of the sources of the <strong>Gh\u0101yat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17773\" style=\"width: 626px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17773\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia.jpg\" alt=\"Martin, Slovakia, Slovak National Library, Fragment of the Picatrix, circa 1400 CE. Image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.\" width=\"616\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia.jpg 616w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Manuscript_of_the_Picatrix-via-Wikimedia-150x124.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martin, Slovakia, Slovak National Library, Fragment of the Picatrix, circa 1400 CE. Image Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Image of &#8220;Jupiter Enthroned&#8221; (&#8220;Olympian Zeus&#8221;) in the <em>Lapidary of Alfonso X<\/em><\/h4>\n<div id=\"attachment_17785\" style=\"width: 801px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17785\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17785 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-791x1024.png\" alt=\"Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original (1881), folio 102r. Image via Creative Commons via https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf.\" width=\"791\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-116x150.png 116w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-cropped-1583x2048.png 1583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 791px) 100vw, 791px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original (1881), folio 102r. Image via Creative Commons via https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Note on the image<\/em><\/p>\n<p>El Escorial, Real Biblioteca de San Lorenzo, MS H. I. 15, fol. 102r.\u00a0 The manuscript, known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lafavre.us\/lapidario\/lapidari.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lapidary of King Alfonso X<\/a>c, was commissioned in 1253 by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfonso_X_of_Castile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alfonso X<\/a> &#8220;the Wise&#8221; or <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfonso_X_de_Castilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Alfonso X de Castilla<\/a> (1221\u20131284), King of Castile, Le\u00f3n, and Galicia.<\/p>\n<p>The image here comes from the 1881 color facsimile of the El Escorial manuscript, <em>Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original<\/em>, ed. D. Jos\u00e9 Fernandez Monta\u00f1a (Madrid, 1881); freely accessible online via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cervantesvirtual.com\/nd\/ark:\/59851\/bmc2b941\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">archive.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Lapidario_del_Rey_D._Alfonso_X_-_c%C3%B3dice_original_1881.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commons.wikimedia.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Folio 102r occurs in the online pdf variously as page 267 (Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes) or page 241 (archive.org via the Getty Institute).<\/p>\n<p>A recent printed facsimile: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facsimiles.com\/facsimiles\/lapidary-of-alfonso-x-the-wise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lapidary of Alfonso X the Wise<\/a>, an &#8220;Astrology commissioned by the Spanish king Alfonso the Wise&#8221; in 1253 on &#8220;the healing effects of stones and gems in luminous miniatures&#8221; (Madrid: Edilan, 1982).\u00a0 &#8220;This treatise commissioned by the King is concerned with the magical and medical importance and effect of gems and other stones in connection with astrology&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>For an English edition of the <em>Lapidario<\/em>, see <em>The Lapidary of Alfonso X the Learned<\/em>, edited by Ingrid Bahler and Katherine Gy\u00e9k\u00e9nyesi Gatto (University Press of the South, 1997); ISBN 1-889431-15-X.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17786\" style=\"width: 936px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17786\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17786 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-926x1024.png\" alt=\"Jupiter Enthroned (Olympian Zeus). Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original (1881), folio 102r top left. Image via Creative Commons via https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf.\" width=\"926\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-926x1024.png 926w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-136x150.png 136w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-768x849.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left.png 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 926px) 100vw, 926px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jupiter Enthroned. Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original (1881), folio 102r top left. Image via Creative Commons via https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h3>A Handout for the Presentation<\/h3>\n<p>Vajra has prepared a <strong>Handout<\/strong> for this Episode.\u00a0 Incorporating materials from his presentation, including Tables and Images, you can freely download the Handout as a preview and souvenir here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/download\/16287\/?tmstv=1691771364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Handout for Vajra Regan&#8217;s Episode 12 for &#8220;The Research Group Speaks&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<h2>Registration for the Episode<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Episode 12<\/strong> in the online series of &#8220;The Research Group Speaks&#8221; is planned for <strong>Saturday 12 August 2023, via Zoom<\/strong>, at 1 pm EST (GMT &#8211; 5) for about 1 1\/2 hours, with discussion and Q&amp;A.\u00a0 You are welcome to join us.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to attend, please register here:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_17786\" style=\"width: 281px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17786\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-17786 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-271x300.png\" alt=\"Jupiter Enthroned (Olympian Zeus). Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X: Codice original (1881), folio 102r top left. Image via Creative Commons via https:\/\/ia802202.us.archive.org\/14\/items\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo.pdf.\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-271x300.png 271w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-926x1024.png 926w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-136x150.png 136w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left-768x849.png 768w, https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lapidariodelreyd00alfo-via-archive-Getty-Institute-241-Jupiter-top-left.png 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17786\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapidario del Rey D. 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