goetia-census: a multi-witness audit of the legion counts in the Goetic spirit catalogues

A reproducible collation of the legion counts in seven aligned witnesses of the late medieval and early modern spirit catalogues (Munich Clm 849, Florence Plut. 89 sup. 38 and the Livre des esperitz, read on the manuscript images, Weyer's Pseudomonarchia daemonum of 1577, Scot's 1584 translation, the Goetia in Sloane 3825 and in Mathers 1904), plus totals for Folger V.b.26 and Sloane 3853. It reconstructs how Boudet reached 2,253 legions, ledgers every numeric and rank change against Weyer, tests whether the changes look like Roman-numeral miscopying, computes exact subset-sum bounds, and traces the printed sources of the "census of Hell" figures 133,306,668, 44,435,556 and 7,405,926.