The Illustrated Demonological Codex

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A scholarly, illuminated index of 172 named spirits - drawn directly from the primary grimoires that defined Western demonology.

Before the printed page, the names of the fallen were copied by hand in candlelit scriptoria - guarded, feared, and copied again. The Illustrated Demonological Codex restores 172 of those spirits to a single illuminated volume, faithful to the texts that recorded them and rendered with the gravity they were once granted.

Every entry is a full-page portrait. Every portrait is corroborated. The codex moves through the infernal hierarchy in eight books - from the nine Kings of the Lemegeton, through the Dukes, Princes, Presidents, Marquises, and Counts, into the Lesser Hierarchy, the spirits of the Testament of Solomon, and the sixty-four princes of the infernal courts.

What's inside

• 172 named spirits, each with rank, legions commanded, domain, appearance, and primary-source attribution.


• Eight books arranged by infernal rank: Kings · Dukes · Princes & Presidents · Marquises · Counts & Earls · Lesser Hierarchy · Spirits of the Testament · Infernal Courts.


• Full-page Gothic illustrations in the candlelit, illuminated-manuscript tradition - jewel tones, ironwork, vellum, and shadow.


• Verbatim primary-source descriptions from the Ars Goetia, Pseudomonarchia Daemonum (Weyer, 1577), Testament of Solomon, Grimoirium Verum, and the Dictionnaire Infernal (Collin de Plancy, 1863).


• Cross-references and corroboration connecting parallel entries across grimoires.


• Section introductions establishing the historical and textual lineage of each rank.

This is not a spellbook. It is not a how-to. It is a reference - designed for the historian, the folklorist, the writer building a coherent demonology, the artist hunting iconography, and the curious reader who wants the source material rather than the rumor.

Read it cover to cover, or open it at the spirit who calls.

From The Meridian Press - publisher of the Atlas of Arcane Symbols and the World Mythology Creature Compendium.