Gibecière Volume 20, Number 2

The largest editon to date, the 20th anniversary issue of Gibeciere cuts a broad path through magic history. Each essay represents an apex of the kind of research the journal is best known for. 

Alex Metcalfe begins by exploring a previous untranslated text, The Blossom of Gardens in the Knowledge of Conjurers’ Props, a 15th-century Arabic work by al-Zarkhūrī that Metcalfe calls “the most complete and detailed conjuring handbook that is known from any time between the Roman period and the dawn of the printed book.”