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Malleus Maleficarum

Opus egregium, de varijs incantationum generibus origine, progressu, medela atq[ue] ordinaria damnatione

by Heinrich Institoris, Jakob Sprenger & Heinrich Kramer

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Languages: English, French, German, Latin
  • Content type: Primary source
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Malleus Maleficarum (sometimes known in English as "Hammer of Witches") is a 15th century manual on investigating and prosecuting witchcraft.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism, Cryptozoology and Forteana, Demonology, angelology, and possession, Occultism and esotericism, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Occultism”· via Open Library
    • “Occultism”· in subject
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library, internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary-historical, openlibrary-title-seed, and wikisource matched “Hexenprozess”, “Malleus Maleficarum”, and “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Malleus Maleficarum” in the title, “Malleus Maleficarum” in the description, “Witchcraft” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Hexenprozess”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • “Witchcraft”· via Internet Archive
    • “Witchcraft”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “Malleus Maleficarum”· via Open Library
    • “Witchcraft”· via English Wikisource
  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from e-rara matched “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata and “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)” in the subject metadata.

    • “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)”· via e-rara — Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)
    • “Alchemy”· in subject
    • “Alchemy, Magic and Kabbalah (C.G. Jung collection)”· in subject
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, online-books-page, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and openlibrary-title-seed matched “Demonology” and “Malleus Maleficarum”. Retained metadata contains “Malleus Maleficarum” in the title, “Malleus Maleficarum” in the description, “Demonology” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Demonology”· via Internet Archive
    • “Demonology”· via The Online Books Page
    • “Demonology”· via Open Library
    • “Malleus Maleficarum”· via Open Library
    • “Malleus Maleficarum”· in title
    • “Malleus Maleficarum”· in description
  • Cryptozoology and Forteana

    Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library matched “Drachen”.

    • “Drachen”· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections

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Editions

18 editions cataloged here.

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 578; Digitized image count: 580; Erscheinungsvermerk in Vorlageform: Impressum Colonie per me Henricu[m] de Nussia, Anno M.ccccc.xj. - Bibliogr. Nachweis: VD 16 S 8380; Extent: [283] Bl.; Lt. Brockhaus Online und Wikipedia gilt die Mitarbeit Jakob Sprengers an diesem Werk als widerlegt; Shelfmark: P.lat. 1819 d; Erscheinungsvermerk in Vorlageform: Impressum Colonie per me Henricu[m] de Nussia, Anno M.ccccc.xj. - Bibliogr. Nachweis: VD 16 S 8380; Extent: [283] Bl.; Lt. Brockhaus Online und Wikipedia gilt die Mitarbeit Jakob Sprengers an diesem Werk als widerlegt; Shelfmark: P.lat. 1819 d

1511Colonia : Nussia; NussiaLatin—Public iiif reader

mit der Hexenbulle ‘Summis desiderantes affectibus’, Rom 5.12.1484, von Papst Innocentius VIII. und der Approbation durch Professoren der Kölner theologischen Fakultät vom 19.5.1487

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Bibliogr. Nachweis: Hain/Copinger 9240. Pell-Pol 6315. BNCI I 55 [ca. 1492]. Pol 2123 [ca. 1492?] IGI 5183. BMC II, 498 (IA. 8634) [ca. 1492?] Goff I 165 [1492?] IBP 3073 [ca. 1492]. CIH 3123 [ca. 1492]. - Dat. aufgrund der Wasserzeichen. Vgl. auch den Eintrag im Rechnungsbuch des Peter Drach zum 24.9.1496, wo 4 Exemplare des Traktats erwähnt werden (Geldner, Drach Sp. 49); Digitized image count: 389; Extent: 190 Bl.; Shelfmark: 4 Inc.s.a. 1199

[ca. 1495][Peter Drach der Mittlere]; [Speyer] : [Peter Drach der Mittlere]Latin—Public iiif reader

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Bibliogr. Nachweis: Hain/Copinger 9238. Pell-Pol 6316. BNCI I 54 [vor 15.4.1487]. Pol 2121. IGI 5181 [ca. 1490]. Goff I 163 [vor 15.4.1487]. IBP 3071 [ca. 1485]. CIH 3121 [vor 15.4.1487]. - Zur Dat. vgl. die zweimalige Erwähnung des Traktats zwischen 1486 und 1487 im Rechnungsbuch des Peter Drach (Geldner, Drach Sp. 44 u. 147). Vgl. auch F. R. Goff: The Library of Congress Copy of the ‘Malleus maleficarum’, 1487. In: Libri 13, 1963, S. 137f; Digitized image count: 265; Extent: 130 Blätter; Shelfmark: 2 Inc.s.a. 836

[ca. 1486/87][Peter Drach der Mittlere]; [Speyer] : [Peter Drach der Mittlere]Latin—Public iiif reader

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Identifiers & provenance

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ISBN-10
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OCLC
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Open Library edition
Internet Archive
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Wikisource
  • 4511172
Bavarian State Library
e-rara
  • 3331183
OAI
  • oai:www.e-rara.ch:3331183
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Cataloging notes

  • B3Kat identifier: BV001653066
  • B3Kat identifier: BV001653067
  • B3Kat identifier: BV001653069
  • B3Kat identifier: BV001653071
  • B3Kat identifier: BV003568614
  • B3Kat identifier: BV010800940
  • B3Kat identifier: BV010800956
  • B3Kat identifier: BV011264442
  • B3Kat identifier: BV035569891
  • B3Kat identifier: BV035569965
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: 2 Inc.s.a. 836
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: 4 Exeg. 192#Beibd.1
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: 4 Inc.s.a. 1199
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: 4 P.lat. 1157
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: P.lat. 1819
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: P.lat. 1819 d
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: P.lat. 1819 e
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: P.lat. 1819 h
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Rw 1798
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Rw 1799
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: Rw 963A
  • Contributing institution: McGill University Library
  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Digitization license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
  • Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons, U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • e-rara rights metadata: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/; PDM 1.0
  • e-rara source-system record identifier: 007268761
  • Holding institution or provenance: Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek
  • Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary; usnationallibraryofmedicine
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: toronto
  • Open Library reports 17 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 18 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 6 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Publication place: [Metz]
  • Publication place: [Speyer]
  • Publication place: Colonia
  • Publication place: Coloniae
  • Publication place: Nurenberge
  • Publication place: Paris
  • Publication place: Venetia
  • Publication place: Venetiis
  • Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 3.5.0
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BF1569 .A2 I5
  • Wikidata edition/translation work relation followed for author, date, language, subject, and identifier enrichment.
  • Wikidata instance type: reference work; version, edition or translation
  • Wikidata item description: 1928 English translation by Montague Summers
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