Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 908 — the Oxford copy of the Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor. The primary witness for the divine-name lists (fol. 169 begins “Agla . Primogenitus . On”) and the 36 tables (fol. 180). The source of Kupin’s curly-brace variant ordinals in Section 28. Bodley 908 is not currently available online; physical access is required for folios cited in the Moon-row derivation.
London, British Library, Sloane MS 8 — the British Library copy of the Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor. Reeds’s full typeset transcriptions of the 36 tables (pp. 29–64 of his edition) are drawn from this witness. Un-digitised folios relevant to the Moon-row question: fols. 140r–141r (the divine-name list passage in Section 28).
London, British Library, Sloane MS 3188 — John Dee’s primary angelic diaries. Contains the 10 March 1581/2 session in which Dee asked Uriel how to read the Soyga tables ("Zadzaczadlin was Adam"), and the 18 April 1583 session in which the angel Il rejected Soyga’s self-etymology and stated “Soyga alca miketh.” Transcribed by Christopher Whitby (see below).
Kupin, Jane L. Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor: The Complete Edition and Translation. 2014. Public domain dedication. Available at esotericarchives.com/soyga/ and Internet Archive (book-of-soyga-john-dee). The 23,717-line text is the primary source for all prose quotations in this work. Key section locations: §18 letter-values at lines 8151–8172 (Latin) / 8318–8337 (English); §19 Zadzaczadlin at lines 8682–8686 (Latin) / 9061–9065 (English); §26.1 Liber Radiorum preface at lines 13565–13576; §27 alphabet and spirit counts at lines 22341–22358; §28 code-word construction at lines 22589–22614.
Reeds, Jim. “John Dee and the Magic Tables in the Book of Soyga.” In Stephen Clucas (ed.), John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought. Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-4246-9_10. Circulated as a preprint in 1998/1999.
This is the foundational paper: the complete reconstruction of the table-generation algorithm, the error catalogue (13 original errors + 7 transpositions), the empirical f(W) values (Table II), and the table-keyword inventory (Table I). The present work explains what Reeds could not: the origin of the 23 empirical f values.
Priority note (house standard): Reeds solved the Book III cipher of Trithemius’s Steganographia independently of Thomas Ernst, and credited Ernst’s priority openly — a scholarly standard this work holds itself to. If you know prior art for the Section 18 → f identity, write to jason@ultraculture.org and it will be credited here.
Harkness, Deborah E. “Shows in the Showstone: A Theater of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angel Conversations of John Dee (1527–1608/9).” Renaissance Quarterly 49, no. 4 (1996): 707–737. See also Harkness, John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Harkness’s 1994 identification of the manuscript Aldaraia sive Soyga vocor as the Book of Soyga mentioned throughout Dee’s diaries initiated modern scholarly engagement with the text. Without that identification, Reeds’s analysis would not have been possible.
Whitby, Christopher. John Dee’s Actions with Spirits: 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1988 (Garland Renaissance Drama series). [Whitby PhD: University of Birmingham, 1982.]
The critical transcription of Sloane MS 3188 and the companion manuscript record (Sloane MS 3677). The 10 March 1581/2 session (Dee’s question to Uriel about the Soyga tables; Zadzaczadlin was Adam) is at Whitby lines 8726–8730. The 18 April 1583 session (Soyga alca miketh; Il’s rejection of the book’s self-etymology) is at Whitby lines 27461–27467.
Laycock, Donald C. The Complete Enochian Dictionary: A Dictionary of the Angelic Language as Revealed to Dr. John Dee and Edward Kelley. London: Askin Publishers, 1978. Rev. ed. York Beach, ME: Samuel Weiser, 1994.
Laycock indexes alca as “judgment” and miketh as “wisdom” (with question-mark uncertainties in the OCR of the available copy). These are the published Enochian lexical references for the Soyga alca miketh phrase, independent of the diary gloss.
Rowe, Benjamin. The Enochian Calls. Privately circulated, 1990s/2000s.
The Rowe/Hermetic compilation, derived from Laycock, independently lists SOYGA as “WILL OF GOD, SAINTLY,” ALCA as “JUDGMENT (?)”, and MIKETH as “WISDOM” — providing a second independent lexical source for the diary’s judgment/wisdom gloss.
soyga_verification_bundle.zip — the public verification suite: independent reimplementation of the generator, Reeds-anchor checks, null models for hidden text, Section 28 code-word derivation scripts, and the second-reviewer scripts. MIT-licensed. Run with pytest (Python 3.10+).
This work is aware of no prior publication connecting the Book of Soyga’s Section 18 letter-values to Reeds’s empirical f(W). If you know of prior art — a publication, preprint, forum post, or private communication establishing this identity before June 2026 — please write to jason@ultraculture.org. Any prior claim will be credited here and in all subsequent versions of this work.