SCOT ON THE NAMES, ETC., OF DEVILS FROM WIER, BUT PROBABLY THROUGH
T. R., MENTIONED P. _393_.
P. 377, l. 13. “Seventie and nine.” The list given by Scot is 68 +
1 accidentally omitted + Beelzebub not mentioned + the 4 kings of
the N., S., E. and West = 74. Wier himself gives no total, but the
discrepancy in Scot may perhaps have arisen from his copying 79 from T.
R., from whom, as an intermediary, and not directly from Wier, or from
some other, I think, from facts presently to be mentioned, it will be
rendered probable that he copied.
P. 378. “_Marbas._” After this name Scot omits from Wier’s
list—“Purflas, alibi invenitur Busas, magnus Princeps & Dux est,
cujus mansio circa turrim Babylonis, & videtur in eo flamma foris,
caput autem assimilatur magno nycto-coraci. Autor est et promotor
discordiarum, bellorum, rixarum et mendaciorum. Omnibus in locis non
intromittatur. Ad quæsita respondet abunde. Sub sunt huic legiones
vingenti sex, partim ex ordine Throni, partim Angelorum.” The edition
of Wier that I have used, I may here remark, is chiefly that of 1660,
but where any doubt arose, that of 1583. But from whence did Wier
obtain these things? Under _Belial_ (I give Scot’s English) he says:
“Without doubt (I must confesse) I learned this of my master Salomon;
but he told me not why he gathered them together, and shut them up
so. But I beleeve it was for the pride of this _Beliall_.” Secondly,
under _Gaap_, he says: “I may not bewraie how and declare the meanes
to conteine him, bicause it is abhomination [nefandam], and for that
I have learned nothing from Salomon of his dignitie and office”. And
Wier has in his margin “Scelerati necromantici verba sunt”. Thirdly,
Wier, in his address before his Pseudomonarchia, says: “hanc ... ex
Acharonticorum Vasallorum archivo subtractam”; and at the close of
this address: “Inscribitur vero a maleferiato hoc hominum genere
Officium spirituum, vel, Liber officiorum spirituum, seu Liber dictus
Empto.[rium] Salomonis, de principibus & regibus dæmoniorum, qui cogi
possunt divina vertute & humana. At mihi nuncupabitur Pseudomonarchia
Dæmonum.”
Pp. 377-93. Scot, in these second, third, and fourth chapters, follows
Wier, but for these reasons did not, I think, directly translate him: