Soyga
Oh, my great and long desyre hath The tables of the Book of Soyga were lost until 1994, when Deborah Harkness discovered two copies of the Book of Soyga in the British Library (Sloane 8) and the Bodleian Library (Bodley 908). The tables were known only through some notes in Dees diaries and a remark of Ashmole, regarding the MS. The 197 leaves of the bodleian copy consist of three separate titles and some untitles works: The Liber Aldaraia, Liber Radiorum and the Liber decimus septinus. The last 18 leaves contain the tables of Soyga. The copy of the British Library is similarly structured, although shorter in some parts. The book seems to be a typical grimoire of these times. The tables however remained unique. 1998 Jim Reeds decrypted the mathematical structure of the tables and published his results in "John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga". He detected several different types of errors in both manuscripts. Errors common to both copies and obviously already present in the supposed original, errors of transposition and gross eye skip errors. I received my version by email and already being corrected (regarding the tranpostion errors and the gross eye skip errors). The errors of the original copy were not being corrected. The mathematical formula, Reeds derived, is X = N + f(W), the addition in modulo 23. The letter´s value he determined empirical. John Dee was fascinated by these tables and estimated them very high. The magical squares and their inner symmetry was later a main structural component of the enochian magical system.
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