The manuscript was sold at auction in 1692 and is now probably Sloane MS. ![]() The Sloane 8 version is also described as Tractatus Astrologico Magicus.Įlias Ashmole recorded that the Duke of Lauderdale owned a manuscript titled Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor that had formerly belonged to Dee. 908), under the title Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor by Dee scholar Deborah Harkness. The book was thought to have been lost, until 1994, when two manuscript copies located in the British Library (Sloane MS. Dees with the words on the first page: Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor. ![]() ![]() After Dees death, the book was thought lost until 1994, when two manuscripts were located in the British Library (Sloane MS 8) and the Bodleian Library (Bodley MS. Many years later Elias Ashmole (1617 1692) reported that theDuke of Lauderdale hath a folio MS. ![]() One copy is known to have been owned by John Dee. The Book of Soyga, also titled Aldaraia, is a 16th-century Latin treatise on magic, one copy of which was owned by the Elizabethan scholar John Dee. One copy of The Book of Soyga is known to have been possessed by the Elizabethan scholar John Dee. The Book of Soyga, also known as Alderaia is a 16th century treatise on magic.
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