History Main / SpellBook

* Grimoires play a central role in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex''. Reading them without precautions can have severe side effects, and it is stated that they are dangerous even for those trained to handle them.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Lina Inverse learns the Ragna Blade spell from a Spell Book, but she learns it permanently.

* Caster's magic book in ''LightNovel/FateZero'' is his Noble Phantasm. Specifically, it's the [[TomeofEldritchLore Necronomicon]], identified as the ''Spiral Text of the Sunken City.''

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'';

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' has lab texts the notes that someone made when they were developing a spell or magic item. They reduce the time to create anything you can create to one season.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterPC'' has the grimoire, the only weapon that can vanquish witches, where casting the spell within hostile witches' vincinity will turn [[BewitchedAmphibians them into frogs]].

* Given the WizardingSchool
setting of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' spell books are text books. In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' Harry gets an old potions book that belonged to the titular Prince [[spoiler:Snape]] filled with his notes that help Harry pass potions tests and spells that nearly kill Harry's classmates.

setting of ''Literature/HarryPotter'' spell books are text books. In ''Literature /HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'' Harry gets an old potions book that belonged to the titular Prince [[spoiler:Snape]] filled with his notes that help Harry pass potions tests and spells that nearly kill Harry's classmates.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': These shows up as school textbooks, but averted in that they are merely textbooks and don't allow you to cast spells any more than having a biology textbook allows you to do genetic engineering. Although [[spoiler:Snape]] effectively turned his old copy of ''Advanced Potion-Making'' into more of a grimoire.

* ''Videogame/DwarfFortress:'' Necromancy (and theoretically all other magic thanks to the Secrets system) is never innate, and must be learned from writing material containing "the secrets of life and death". They can be transcribed fairly easily, amusingly enough, so spellbooks that instantly instill knowledge of immortality and raising the dead into your brain perpetually are something a (once) regular dwarf can just write down. It bears mentioning that books are never the original copy, however; the original is instead a Ten Commandments-esque rock slab inscribed by the necromancer after being struck by divine inspiration by a relevant god.

* ''Series/{{Willow}}'': Willow finds one called The Malatrium that contains a spell to save Graydon from the Gales' possession.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'': as a practitioner of libromancy, Claris Snowflake's WeaponOfChoice is a grimoire. Her [[MiniMecha spiricle striker]] is also outfitted with an upscaled magic tome. Why? [[RuleOfCool Why not!]]

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'':

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/eleven-hours The Book of Eleven Hours]] from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'', which contains "alchemical processes, written accounts on contact with supernatural entities, and magic rites and rituals."

** Rita from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' uses books as her secondary weapon. For the most part it's just a StatStick, but she still uses it for several melee attacks. She's also shown to read it in her VictoryPose

** In addition to the archetype there are also the cards "Magic Formula" and the original Yugioh spellbook, "Book of Secret Arts".

* Unlike most Persona users, [[VideoGame/Persona4 Nanako]] doesn't possess a Persona of her own in ''Fanfic/StealTheTruthReachOutForYourHeart''. Instead, she uses a copy of Yu's Compendium and summons the Personas recorded in it, such as Yu's own Persona Izanagi.

** In addition to the archetype there are also the cards Magic Formula and the original Yugioh spellbook, Book of Secret Arts.

** 2016 saw the introduction of a calendar class that also weilds a book: Archivist, which uses the Book of Lore to channel skills that throw back to various points in the hero's history, in order to empower the basic attack. It may or may not technically be a spellbook in-story, though, since it's apparently also the hero's diary, according to NPC dialogue.

* Part of Dabarella's backstory from 'WebVideo/AdventureIsNigh'' is that she read a necromancy spellbook after mistaking it for a cookbook. She was looking for cookie recipies.

* Part of ''Adventure Is Nigh'''s Dabarella's backstory is that she read a necromancer's spellbook after mistaking it for a cookbook. She was looking for cookie recipies.

Related to, but distinct from the GreatBigBookOfEverything which is an infinite source of information. The TomeOfEldritchLore is also a spell book but has added implications [[ArtifactOfDoom of doom!]]. Some examples probably need to be moved over.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/eleven-hours The Book of Eleven Hours]] from ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'', which contains “alchemical processes, written accounts on contact with supernatural entities, and magic rites and rituals.”

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* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': When Circe was viciously looking for revenge on humanity after her MemoryGambit worked too well and she nearly became ''nice'' while pretending to be human she came to Themyscira to steal Magala's spell book, as it is the only handwritten and personally researched book as old as her own and is full of unique spells she can use to widen her repertoire.

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-->'''Prospero.'' [...] I'll break my staff,
-->Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
-->And deeper than did ever plummet sound
-->I'll drown my book.

* ''Franchise/{{Extrapower}}'': The Pyramid Witch Blackberry performs her summon magic by flipping her tome to the appropriate page. Even when ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerGiantFist Giant Fist]]'' gives her a staff for short-range attacks, she keeps her spellbook on hand for her more powerful attacks.

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* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'': The second season introduces this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' the Butterfly family's book of spells has the entire family's magic knowledge inside it, along with a familiar attached to the book, Glossaryck. [[spoiler:Toffee later destroys the book, leading Star to create her own book of spells that she invented.]]

* Nessiah's most treasured possession, the Revelation of the Gods, in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' and ''VideoGame/BlazeUnion''. He's the only spellcaster to fight with a spellbook instead of a staff (which is plot-important, yes); he is also [[ThrowTheBookAtThem not above hitting people with it]] when charging into battle.