The Sworn Book of Honorius (Liber Iuratus Honorii)

The Sworn Book of Honorius, Liber Iuratus Honorii, is known from manuscripts dating from the fourteenth century onward, and this record states plainly what the text's own transmission will support: the attribution to Honorius of Thebes is part of the text's own claim about itself rather than an established historical authorship. As a primary grimoire text it is authoritative for its own content, the oath-bound procedure and angelic invocations it sets out, checkable directly against the manuscript tradition, not for who actually composed it or when. Use it to establish what this text itself prescribes; a claim about the work's textual history, its relationship to Trithemius's later reference to it, or a resolved reading of its manuscript tradition is better established through a dedicated critical edition, such as the annotated edition held elsewhere in this register, which addresses those questions directly and this bare citation does not.