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The “Book of Soyga”, also titled “Aldaraia”, is a 16th-century Latin treatise on magic, Elizabethan scholar John Dee is known to have possessed one copy of this work. After John Dee’s death, the book was thought to be lost. However in 1994, two manuscripts were located in the British Library (Sloane MS. 8) and the Bodleian Library (Bodley MS. 908), written under the title “Aldaraia sive Soyga Vocor”, by Deborah Harkness, a scholar on the life of John Dee.
The Sloane 8 version from the British Library is also described as “Tractatus Astrologico Magicus”. Both versions of “Aldaraia sive Soyga Vocor” differ only slightly.
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