The Ars Goetia’s seventy-two names have an earlier textual history. These guides identify the surviving documents and show where a name, rank, seal, or sequence changes.
01 · Textual historyThe Offices of Spirits: A Manuscript FamilyWhat the name Liber Officiorum Spirituum identifies, and why no surviving list can simply be called the original Ars Goetia.02 · Manuscript guideThe Book of Oberon’s Spirit ListReading the “Officium de spirittibus” in Folger MS V.b.26 as one part of a dated Elizabethan book of magic.03 · Comparison guideWhy Weyer Has 69 Spirits and the Goetia Has 72A source-by-source comparison of missing names, rearranged entries, seals, and the famous glass-versus-brass vessel reading.
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Demonology sources surveys the larger source tradition. The 72-spirit reference and Goetia seals guide address the later Goetia witness.