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SPRENGER, Jakob and KRMER, Heinrich. Malleus maleficarum [with other works], Frankfurt-am-Main: Nicolaus Bassaeus 1580.
8o (155 x 91mm). Collation: A8 B4 A-Z8 a-z8 2A-2D8. 412 leaves. Italic type. Small woodcut capitals. (Light browning). Contemporary limp vellum, vellum ties (vellum slightly wrinkled). Provenance: Bourgeot (18th-century? signature on lower margin of title).
A compendium of the essential late medieval and early Renaissance works on witchcraft and demonology, featuring, in addition to the Malleus maleficarum, Berhard Basin Tractatus de artis magicis et magorum maleficiis (first published 1485), Ulrich Molitor De lamiis et phytoniciis mulieribus (first published 1489), Johannes Gerson, De probatione spitrituum (first published ca.1467-1472) and Thomas Murner De phythonico contractu (first published after 2 October 1499). Adams S-1616; BM/STC Italian, 827; Norman 2000.
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A compendium of the essential late medieval and early Renaissance works on witchcraft and demonology, featuring, in addition to the Malleus maleficarum, Berhard Basin Tractatus de artis magicis et magorum maleficiis (first published 1485), Ulrich Molitor De lamiis et phytoniciis mulieribus (first published 1489), Johannes Gerson, De probatione spitrituum (first published ca.1467-1472) and Thomas Murner De phythonico contractu (first published after 2 October 1499). Adams S-1616; BM/STC Italian, 827; Norman 2000.