Ideas across traditions · ritual · Medieval Latin
grimoire
Works in 3 traditions beyond Medieval Latin attest this concept, on 170 cited pages.
Also under: grimoires
In other traditions
Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.
Renaissance & Early Modern Europe
- 1533Agrippa, De occulta philosophia libri tressame word
- 1533Agrippa, De occulta philosophia III (on dreams and prophecy)same word
- 1799Gallerie der neuen Propheten, apokalyptischen Träumer, Geisterseher (1799) and the German ghost-debatesame word
Theosophical & Modern Esoteric
- 1856Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (Transcendental Magic)same word
- grimoire — book of magic spellsncient sages called the clavicle key or handbook for opening mysteries ; the other, what the country folk still call theTranscendental Magic: Doctrine and Ritual, Vol. 1, 1861, p. 110 · flagged as a term by the translator
- grimoire — a book of magic spellsis what the ancient sages called the clavicula little key ; the other, what the people of the countryside still call theDogma and Ritual of High Magic, 1861, p. 116 · flagged as a term by the translator
- grimoires — books of magic spellslity, have not reached us without strange alterations. Here are some of them, just as they are still found in the latestTranscendental Magic, Volume 2: Ritual, 1861, p. 424 · flagged as a term by the translator
- 1856Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magiesame word
- grimoire — book of magic spellsncient sages called the clavicle key or handbook for opening mysteries ; the other, what the country folk still call theTranscendental Magic: Doctrine and Ritual, Vol. 1, 1861, p. 110 · flagged as a term by the translator
- grimoire — a book of magic spellsis what the ancient sages called the clavicula little key ; the other, what the people of the countryside still call theDogma and Ritual of High Magic, 1861, p. 116 · flagged as a term by the translator
- grimoires — books of magic spellslity, have not reached us without strange alterations. Here are some of them, just as they are still found in the latestTranscendental Magic, Volume 2: Ritual, 1861, p. 424 · flagged as a term by the translator
- 1860Éliphas Lévi, Histoire de la Magiesame word
- 1893Papus, Traité élémentaire de magie pratiquesame word
- 1923Waite, Lamps of Western Mysticism / The Interior Lifesame word
Modern European
At home in Medieval Latin
No work labelled Medieval Latin on the four maps attests it behind the gate; the concept’s own tradition may be under-mapped, or its home works are held only in vocabulary lists.
Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.