Malleus maleficarum

Malleus maleficarum

Incunabula

Excerpts

Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505

Sprenger, Jakob, 1436 or 1438-1495

This is a first edition of the Malleus maleficarum [The Witches' Hammer], the foremost legal and theological handbook on witchcraft and demonology. It describes the operations of witches, remedies against spells, and the judicial proceedings of ecclesiastical and civil courts against witches and heretics. Twenty-eight editions of the Malleus maleficarum were produced before 1600, and it was still consulted in the eighteenth century.

Excerpt from Malleus Maleficarum (Speyer, before 15 April 1487) including the appologia of the author and the beginning of the text

Institoris, Heinrich, 1430-1505

Sprenger, Jakob, 1436 or 1438-1495

Peter Drach

1487 April 15, before

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excerpt (2 pages)

Latin

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DigID0002516

Purchased for the Boston Medical Library, 1949