Malleus maleficaru[m].

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505
Sprenger, Jakob, 1436 or 1438-1495 (Author)
Corporate Author: Etherington Conservation Center, Inc. (Firm)
Other Authors: Drach, Peter, -1504 (Printer)
Language:Latin
Published: [Speyer : Peter Drach, 1492?]
Subjects:
Witchcraft > Early works to 1800.
Demonology > Early works to 1800.
Criminal procedure (Canon law) > Early works to 1800.
Annotations (Provenance)
Annotations (Provenance) > Poland.
Marginalia (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance) > Poland.
Incunabula > Germany > Speyer > 1492.
Genre:
Early works to 1800.
Annotations (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Incunabula
Ownership and Custodial History:
Early Latin and Polish annotations and underlining in multiple hands and ink colors throughout (some affected by trimming during a rebinding); Polish marginalia include "Wieszcza czarownica"; inscription on leaf p6v: "Hoc [...] 2 sacerdotes 1644 in mont. C. [?]"; marginal markings in pencil on leaves r5v and r6r; some capitals crudely provided in manuscript.
Mathematical calculations (dated 1654?) involving calendar dates on leaf a4r, including "Luther Martin nat[us] 1483, mortuus [per]dit[us] 1546, forte ex malefica nat[us] molas maleficus, 1654/1492/162".
Local Note:
MSU: This book was selected in recognition of MSU Libraries Student Employee, Ronny Fay Ford, Class of 2018
MSU: Criminology Collection.
MSU: Conservation 1998 Etherington Conservation Services.
MSU: Evidence of inked standing type in several locations throughout.
MSU: Goff census (1964) does not place a copy at MSU.
MSU: Large burn hole in leaves F6-8, since repaired (print-outs of these pages scanned from the copy at the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Düsseldorf, Germany, available in MSS 466, Box 6, Folder 74).
Binding Information:
Rebound in 1998 by Etherington Conservation in full alum-tawed skin; spine tooled in blind.
Physical Description:380 unnumbered pages ; 19 cm (quarto)
Variant Title:
Malleus maleficaru.
Malleus maleficarum.
Hammer of witches.
Hammer of the witches.
Format: Book

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