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[KRAMER, HEINRICH (1430-1505), ET AL], Malleus Maleficarum.
Translated with an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes by the Rev. Montague Summers. Birmingham: Classics of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Library, Division of Gryphon Editions, Inc. 1990. [First published 1487 in Latin in Coloniae Agrippinae; First issued in English translation in 1928 in London]. [2]+xlv+[1]+277+[5]pp. 4to. Tooled red leather with marbled endpapers and gilt edges. A fine copy. Handsome facsimile reprint of the 1928 Rodker edition. The series editor, Eric Carlson's, copy with the series-issued bookplate with his name. With the accompanying 48-page booklet, signed by Carlson, and with his extensive introduction. Facsimile reprint of the 1928 Rodker edition of The Witches' Hammer. The book is divided into three sections: the first proving that witchcraft or sorcery existed; the second describing the forms of witchcraft; the third the detection, trial, and destruction of witches. Not very original, the book mainly codified existing beliefs and practices with substantial parts taken from earlier works such as Nicolas Eymeric's Directorium Inquisitorium and Johannes Nider's Formicarius. 2 pounds 12.5 ounces = 1.3 kg. 11.4 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches = 28.5 x 18 x 3.1cm. The classic and widely used Roman Catholic text on witchcraft. Although condemned by the Inquisition in 1490 and never officially used by the Church, the Malleus nevertheless set the standard for the next two centuries for interrogating suspected witches. It was compiled by two Dominican inquisitors who submitted the book to the University of Cologne's Faculty of Theology on May 9, 1487, hoping for an endorsement (instead they ended up receiving a condemnation for its use of unethical legal procedures and because its demonology was not consistent with Catholic doctrine). With 13 editions by 1520 the book filled an obvious need for a practical and judicial manual. Widely used throughout Central and Western Europe, though less so in England and the Netherlands, the Malleus was accepted as authoritative by both Catholics and Protestants. From the beginning it was the most influential Renaissance guide for popular witchhunters. The senior author, Kramer, is also often known through the Latin form of his name, Institorius. Binding: HB.
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