People, perhaps implying that copies of the Arabic original survive there. John Carnby had a copy of the Arabic version, though it was said to beģ6]. An Arab asserted that Alhazred left many legacies among his own The Arabic text is said to be lost, but Laban Shrewsbury thought thatĪlthough Wormius' copy had vanished, Alhazred's own copy might survive [ AWD Keeper The Mad Arab(Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1996), p.239. Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays Concerning the Blasphemous Tome of HPL specified that the Italian printing was in 1567, and the Spanish one in Price reports that in a letter of May 13, 1936, The actual dates and identity of Olaus Wormius are doubtful see Olaus Wormius.Patriarch Michael 1050 (i.e., Greek text). as Necronomicon by Theodorus Philetas Burnt by Have derived the idea of his early novel T he King in Yellow.Īl Azif written circa 730 A. Relatively few of the general public know) that R. It was from rumours of this book (of which The book is rigidly suppressed by the authorities of mostĬountries, and by all branches of organised ecclesiasticism. So preserved, it vanished with the artist R. Sixteenth-century Greek text in the Salem family of Pickman but if it was A still vaguer rumour credits the preservation of a Persistently rumoured to form part of the collection of a celebratedĪmerican millionaire. Other copies probably exist in secret, and a fifteenth-century one is Also in the library of the University of Buenos Ayres. Widener Library at Harvard, and in the library of Miskatonic University atĪrkham. In the British Museum under lock and key, while another (17th cent.) is in Of the Latin texts now existing one (15th cent.) is known to be Printed, and exists only in fragments recovered from the original Note and no sight of the Greek copy which was printed in Italy betweenġ5 has been reported since the burning of a certain Salem Original was lost as early as Wormius' time, as indicated by his prefatory Work both Latin and Greek was banned by Pope Gregory IX in 1232, shortlyĪfter its Latin translation, which called attention to it. Located as to time and place by internal typographical evidence only. Spanish) both editions being without identifying marks, and Middle Ages, and the Latin text was printed twice once in the fifteenthĬentury in black-letter (evidently in Germany) and once in the seventeenth After this it is only heard ofįurtively, but (1228) Olaus Wormius made a Latin translation later in the Impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressedĪnd burnt by the patriarch Michael. 950 the Azif, which had gained aĬonsiderable tho' surreptitious circulation amongst the philosophers of theĪge, was secretly translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas ofĬonstantinople under the title Necronomicon. He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities Nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than Or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain He claimed to have seen the fabulous Irem, He is said by Ebn Khallikan (12th cent.īiographer) to have been seized by an invisible monster in broad day-lightĪnd devoured horribly before a large number of fright-frozen witnesses. D.) many terribleĪnd conflicting things are told. Written, and of his final death or disappearance (738 A. Years Alhazred dwelt in Damascus, where the Necronomicon (Ai Azif) was Marvels are told by those who pretend to have penetrated it. Of this desert many strange and unbelievable
Space" of the ancients and "Dahna" or "Crimson"ĭesert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil Southern desert of Arabia the Roba el Khaliyeh or "Empty Subterranean secrets of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great Yemen, who is said to have flourished during the period of the OmmiadeĬaliphs, circa 700 A. Word used by the Arabs to designate that nocturnal sound (made by insects)Ĭomposed by Abdul Alhazred, a mad poet of Sanaa, in Versions, Copies, and Other Historical Data To present information gleaned from a variety of other sources.] [We begin with HPL's own article on the Necronomicon, and then proceed
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