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Dee was never printed, and exists only in fragments recovered from the original manuscript.14 Of the Latin texts now existing one (15th cent.) is known to be in the British Museum under lock and key, while another (17th cent.) is in the Bibliothque Nationale at Paris.
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IX in 1232, shortly after its Latin translation, which called attention to it.12 The Arabic original was lost as early as Wormius' time, as indicated by his prefatory note fn and no sight of the Greek copy - which was printed in Italy between 15 - has been reported since the burning of a certain Salem man's library in 1692.13 An English translation made by Dr. Spanish) - both editions being without identifying marks, and located as to time and place by internal typographical evidence only.11 The work both Latin and Greek was banned by Pope Gregory After this it is only heard of furtively, but (1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Middle Ages, and the Latin text was printed twice - once in the fifteenth century in black-letter (evidently in Germany) and once in the seventeenth (prob. 950 the Azif, which had gained a considerable tho' surreptitious circulation amongst the philosophers of the age, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople under the title Necronomicon.10 For a century it impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and burnt by the patriarch Michael. He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.fn He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.09 In A.D. biographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad daylight and devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. In his last years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Al Azif) was written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A.D.) many terrible and conflicting things are told. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it.
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He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia - the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Space" of the ancients - and "Dahna" or "Crimson" desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death. Composed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sana, in Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the Ommiade caliphs, circa 700 A.D. Lovecraft Original title Al Azif - "azif" being the word used by Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects) suppos'd to be the howling of daemons. The letter is dated Apand was apparently kept by Lovecraft to circulate as needed. The correct date of 1927 comes from the final draft of the essay, which appears on a letter addressed to Clark Ashton Smith ("To the Curator of the Vaults of Yoh-Vombis, with the Concoctor's Comments"). This date, as can easily be ascertained from the fact that this was a "Limited Memorial Edition", is spurious (Lovecraft died in 1937) in fact, it dates to 1938. Most give the date as 1936, following the Laney-Evans (1943) bibliography entry for the pamphlet version produced by the Rebel Press. There has been some difficulty over the date of this essay. Lovecraft, Original version (corrected) written in 1927 with 1993 annotation From Kendrick Kerwin Chua's Necronomicon FAQ and further annotation by Dan Clore Note: The original Dan Clore version substituted the corrected text for the older, corrupt text used in the FAQ. Irem, the City of Pillars (The Patriarch) Michael Theodorus Philetas The Voynich Manuscript Olaus Wormius About the Author "History of the Necronomicon", by H.P. Necronomicon Glossary Abdul Alhazred The King in Yellow Aleister Crowley John Dee Ebn Khallikan Ibn Schacabao Lovecraft Contents The Article Chronology Letter to C.A.Smith Letter to J.Blish and Wm.Miller The Truth about the Necronomicon Quotes from HPL's stories Quotes from HPL's letters Final Thoughts Fake Necronomicons The DeCamp-Scithers N. ChuaĢnd Edition (K)2000 All Rights Reversed Tap here for miscellaneous publication information. Lovecraft with supplementary information by Donovan K.