The Pentacles

Nine Kandariri · Row 2 · Left

A crescent-shaped cap tops a broad upright cross. Loop-ended bars close its sides and lower arm. [1]

1914 Hebrew manuscript photographic facsimile · Gollancz (1914), facsimile f. 49a, row 2, left; set description in the English contents, printed p. xxii.

Pentacle profile

Tradition and Group: Hebrew Solomonic compilation · Nine Kandariri [1]
Position within the Set: Folio 49a, row 2, left. [1]
Attributed Purpose: One of the nine Kandariri, described in Gollancz’s contents as talismans revealed to King Solomon. [1]
Design: A broad cross has an open crescent-shaped upper cap and loop-ended bars at its other ends. [1]

A broad cross has an open crescent-shaped upper cap and loop-ended bars at its other ends. Two enclosing circles are joined by a short cross at the top. — **Source reproduction** A cross with a crescent-shaped cap. Gollancz, 1914, f. 49a.

A cross with a crescent-shaped cap

The vertical stroke rises from a long lower bar to an open crescent-shaped curve. Its horizontal arm ends at two shorter upright bars, each with small loops above and below. The lower bar also ends in loops. [1]

The broad cross fills much of the inner circle without a central ring or a field of Hebrew writing. Its loop-ended side bars differ from the mixed angular and curved terminals of the other two figures in the middle row. The shared upper cross lies separately between the circular boundaries. [1]

On the nine-talisman leaf

Leaf 49a places this figure at the left of its middle row. Gollancz’s contents identifies the whole nine-talisman section at folios 48a–49a, following the replies and seals of various spirits and preceding the names of angels serving before Boal, also written Boel. [1]

Sources and editions

H. Gollancz, Sepher Maphteah Shelomo
1914 Hebrew manuscript photographic facsimile. English contents, printed p. xxii; facsimile f. 49a, row 2, left; Wellcome canvas 90, facsimile PDF p. 91. Section identified in the contents at ff. 48a–49a.
Gollancz’s 1914 photographic facsimile reproduces the Hebrew manuscript leaf.

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