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From: [d 9 bertil] at [dtek.chalmers.se] (Bertil Jonell)
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Subject: Re: Necronomicon FAQ
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In article <[BERRY 92 Oct 21141927] at [athos.pei.com]> [b--r--y] at [pei.com] writes:
>8. Hazred, Abdul.
> Al Azif, or the Necronomicon, translated from the Arab by Dr. John Dee,
> being the text recovered from antique lands, with some annotations by divers
> hands. London, John Dee, 1589.
> UCLA URL BF 1598 H21aE
Ack! Somebody beat me to it. But I'll make up for that by posting a file with
a more complete version, and a serarch for De Vermiis Mysteris and some other
Mythos Morsels:)
Necronomicon in the indexes - The intrepid net.explorer reports
This is what I got when I searched for some authors and titles on the
UC's MELVYL library catalogue system. I readily admit to getting the
titles and authors from Chaosiums Call of Cthulhu game:)
I have edited out uninteresting responses and my comments are contained
within brackets []. This information is presented as is, with no warranties
either express nor implied, but please don't break the doors down at MELVYL:)
Search request: FIND TW NECRONOMICON
Search result: 12 records at all libraries
1.
Author: Alhazred, Abdul.
Title: Al azif : the necronomicon / by Abdul Alhazred. Philadelphia :
Owlswick Press, 1973.
Description: xi, [196] p. ; 26 cm.
Notes: Facsim. of reputed Duriac manuscript.
Pref. by L. Sprague de Camp.
Text consists chiefly of repetitions of 8 p. of ms. in simulated
Syriac script.
Other entries: De Camp, L. Sprague (Lyon Sprague), 1907-
Necronomicon.
Call numbers: UCLA Spec Coll Z 115Z H339a
UCR Rivera BF1999 .A6335 1973 Spec Coll Eaton
Note: No. 221 of 348 copies.
UCSB Library BF1999 .A6335 1973 Printers Coll
Note: UCSB owns copy no. 275.
[This is obviously the famous good fake]
2.
Author: Alhazred, Abdul.
Title: The necronomicon / edited, with an introd., by Simon. New York :
Avon, 1980, c1977.
Description: lvi, 218 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Series: Avon books ; 75192.
Notes: Also attributed to H. P. Lovecraft. Cf. August Derleth. The
Dunwich horror and others.
"Written in Damascus in the eighth century A.D., by a person
called the Mad Arab, Abdul Alhazred."
"Translated from a Greek ms."
Artwork by Khem Set Rising.
Copyright, 1977; first Avon printing, March 1980.
Subjects: Occultism.
Other entries: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
Simon, 18th cent.
Rising, Khem Set.
Call numbers: UCI Main Lib BF1999 .A633513 1980
UCR Rivera BF1999 .A633513 1980 Spec Coll Eaton
UCSC McHenry BF1999.A633513 1980
[And this is the bad fake, 'khem set rising' :) ]
[3 to 7 are Gigers's Necronomicons]
8.
Author: Hazred, Abdul.
Title: Al Azif, or the Necronomicon, translated from the Arab by Dr.
John Dee, being the text recovered from antique lands, with
some annotations by divers hands. London, John Dee, 1589.
Description: 544 leaves illus. 26 cm.
Subjects: Spirit writings.
Irem (Ruins)
Saudi Arabia -- Description and travel.
Other entries: Dee, John, 1527-1608.
Call numbers: UCLA URL BF 1598 H21aE
[But what the heck is this?!]
9.
Author: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937.
Title: A history of the Necronomicon : being a short, but complete
outline of the history of this book, its author, its various
translations and editions from the time of the writing (A. D.
730) of the Necronomicon to the present day / by H.P.
Lovecraft. West Warwick, R.I. : Necronomicon Press, 1980.
Description: [8] p. ; 22 cm.
Notes: Facsimile reprint of ed. first published in 1938, with Afterword
by S.T. Joshi added.
"Limited memorial edition Wilson H. Shepherd The Rebel Press
Oakman, Alabama." on t.p.
Cover art by Jason Eckhardt.
Other entries: Joshi, S. T., 1958-
Eckhardt, Jason.
The Necronomicon.
[Does anybody know if this one is available from Arkham House?]
10.
Title: The Necronomicon / introduced by Colin Wilson ; researched by
Robert Turner and David Langford ; with contributory material
by Dr. Stanislaus Hinterstoisser ... [et al.] ; illustrated by
Gavin Stamp and Robert Turner ; edited by George Hay. St.
Helier [Eng.] : N. Spearman, 1978.
Description: 184 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 183-184.
Subjects: Occultism.
Other entries: Hay, George.
Call numbers: UCD Main Lib BF1999.A63353 N4 1978
UCR Rivera BF1999.A633513 N4 1978 Spec Coll Eaton
[Or maybe this was the bad one? Don't ask me I don't even work here:) ]
11. MUSIC SCORE
Author: Sitsky, Larry.
Title: Necronomicon : 18 aphorisms for clarinet and piano / Larry
Sitsky. New York, NY : Seesaw Music, c1989.
Description: 2 scores (37 p. each) ; 36 cm.
Notes: Pref. in English on prelim. p.
Reproduced from holograph.
"Commissioned by the International Clarinet Society."
Subjects: Sitsky, Larry -- Manuscripts -- Facsimiles.
Clarinet and piano music -- Scores.
Call numbers: UCI Main Lib M250.S49 N43 1989 DOUBLE OVERSIZE
[Flute music? :) ]
[12 is Hansruedi Gieger again]
[Ok, off on a tangent, let's see if the infamous 'Unaussprechlichen
Kulten' by Von Junzt exists]
Search request: FIND PA JUNZT
Search result: 1 record at all libraries
1.
Author: Von Junzt, Herbert Alphonse Karl, 1765-1817.
Title: Unaussprechlichen Kulten. Leipzig, Hans Grenzeln, 1817.
Description: 178 p. illus. 22 cm.
Subjects: Cults.
Secret societies -- Rituals.
Call numbers: UCLA URL BR 135 V72u
[oops...]
[And the hideous Pnakotic manuscrips?]
Search request: FIND TW PNAKOTIC
Search result: 1 record at all libraries
1.
Author: Gerhardt, Wilhelm Jatho.
Title: Ubersetzung der Pnakotic Texten von Agypten. Herausgegeben von
W. J. Gerhardt. Berlin, Wehlmann's Staatsdruckerei, 1968.
Description: v, 156 p. 25 cm.
Subjects: Pnakotic Manuscripts.
Call numbers: UCLA URL BP 561 G45t 1968
[oops again...]
[But what about the Liber Ivonis: the Book of Eibon?]
Search request: FIND TW EIBON
Search result: 1 record at all libraries
1.
Author: Eibon, fl. 1300.
Title: The book of Eibon; being the text of the Livre d'Ivon;
Translated into English by Prof. J.-P. Rillouard. Paris,
Tipographie Molynard, 1899.
Description: 156 p. 24 cm.
Subjects: Religion, Primitive.
Mythology.
Other entries: Rillouard, Jean-Paul.
Call numbers: UCLA URL BP 605 E4 R35 1899
[Curioser and curioser...]
[I'd bet that Revelations of Glaaki is there too?]
Search request: FIND TW GLAAKI
Search result: 1 record at all libraries
1.
Author: Simpson, George, 1899-1958.
Title: Revelations of Glaaki, with a concordance to the geography of
Gloucestershire. By Prof. George Simpson. Chipping Sodbury,
Gloucestershire, England, 1954.
Description: 1 v. illus. 22 cm.
Subjects: Glaaki (Deity)
Call numbers: UCLA URL BF 1598 G54
[it was...]
[And the mysteries of the worm?]
Search request: FIND PA PRINN, LUDVIG
Search result: 1 record at all libraries
1.
Author: Prinn, Ludvig.
Title: De Vermiis Mysteriis. Augsburg, Gottfriedsche Buchhandlerei,
1833.
Description: 156 p. illus. 25 cm.
Subjects: Occultism -- Early works to 1900.
Call numbers: UCLA URL BF 1598 O3 P77
[It too. But how about the horrible poetry?]
Search request: FIND TW PEOPLE MONOLITH
Search result: 1 record at all libraries
1.
Author: Geoffrey, Justin, 1894-1916.
Title: People of the monolith; poetry by Justin Geoffrey. Edinburgh,
Buck's Press, 1915.
Description: 98 leaves illus. 18 cm.
Call numbers: UCLA URL PS 3557 G29p
[Ack, pht, to quote bill the cat]
This is what I found, but what was it that I didn't find? I didn't find
the slightest trace of Comte D'Erlettes Cultes des Goules, nor of the Book of
Dyzan, Azatoth and Others by Edmund Derby nor of the G'harne Fragments.
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