This is the earliest known (1518) version of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theban_alphabet" class="extiw" title="w:Theban alphabet">Theban alphabet</a>, used since then by occultists and Wiccans. The original text from <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/32017914/">https://www.loc.gov/item/32017914/</a> had legibility problems: (1) bleedthrough from the other side of the page; (2) missing pieces of characters from either the age of the book or incomplete inking of the plates; (3) off-register printing of the red-ink plate, resulting in red letters going too high on the page. Editor .Raven used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP" class="extiw" title="w:GIMP">GIMP</a> to clean up these problems for easier reading of the original text and characters. 
<p>Note 1: the current ‘’’File:Theban.jpg’’’ is from a 1561 French translation of the work, rendering the last letter “w” as an ampersand (&amp;), probably because “w” was a new letter and not familiar to those creating the French edition. 
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Note 2: The original text is in public domain because the original author died over 400 years ago; for my own trivial contribution of clean-up, I waive copyright. — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:.Raven" class="extiw" title="w:User:.Raven">.Raven</a>
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2023-03-06
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