{"id":18653,"date":"2018-03-15T01:59:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=18653"},"modified":"2018-03-15T01:59:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T00:59:11","slug":"calendrier-magique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/03\/15\/calendrier-magique\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendrier Magique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10544640k\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\/orazi1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orazi1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Calendrier Magique<\/em> was created in 1895 by Austin De Croze, with pages decorated and illustrated by Manuel Orazi. In addition to being a calendar for the year 1896, the booklet (which was printed in an edition of 777 copies) is also a fascinating bogus grimoire which did the internet rounds a few years ago when scans appeared on a sub-site hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/fantastic.library.cornell.edu\/imagerecord_xl.php?record=239\" target=\"_blank\">Cornell University Library<\/a>. While it was good to see the pages at all, I&#8217;m sure I wasn&#8217;t the only one who would have preferred a closer look at the details, something which is now possible thanks to a recent upload at <a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10544640k\" target=\"_blank\">Gallica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10544640k\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\/orazi2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orazi2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Gallica copy is also downloadable as a PDF so there&#8217;s no need to replicate all the contents here. Something worth noting which did occur to me when I first saw Orazi&#8217;s drawings was the striking similarity of the letterform sigils and the doodle-like figure below to the later, more seriously-intended occult art of Austin Spare. Neither Orazi nor the <em>Calendrier Magique<\/em> receives a mention in Phil Baker&#8217;s biography of Spare but a copy of the calendar could have made its way to a London book shop where Spare might have seen it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10544640k\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\/orazi3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orazi3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/btv1b10544640k\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\/orazi4.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/orazi4.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/05\/18\/typefaces-of-the-occult-revival\/\">Typefaces of the occult revival<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/04\/16\/manuel-orazis-salome\/\">Manuel Orazi\u2019s Salom\u00e9<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2008\/10\/19\/la-belle-sans-nom\/\">La belle sans nom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Calendrier Magique was created in 1895 by Austin De Croze, with pages decorated and illustrated by Manuel Orazi. In addition to being a calendar for the year 1896, the booklet (which was printed in an edition of 777 copies) is also a fascinating bogus grimoire which did the internet rounds a few years ago &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2018\/03\/15\/calendrier-magique\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Calendrier Magique&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,16],"tags":[9381,316,1208],"class_list":["post-18653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-occult","tag-austin-de-croze","tag-austin-spare","tag-manuel-orazi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4QR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}