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The discoverie of witchcraft ... Being a reprint of the first edition published in 1584

by Reginald Scot, Brinsley Nicholson & Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Publ: Limited edition of 250 copies printed Bndg: No 25 of 50 in Roxburgh binding This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Demonology, angelology, and possession, Ritual magic and grimoires, and Witchcraft and folk magic.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and openlibrary-title-seed matched “Magic” and “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “The Discoverie of Witchcraft” in the title, “Magic” in the subject metadata, and “The Discoverie of Witchcraft” in the edition title.

    • “Magic”· via Internet Archive
    • “Magic”· via Open Library
    • “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Magic”· in subject
    • “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”· in edition title
  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary-historical, and openlibrary-title-seed matched “The Discoverie of Witchcraft” and “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “The Discoverie of Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the title, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Witchcraft”· via Internet Archive
    • “Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”· via Open Library
    • “The Discoverie of Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in title
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Demonology”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata.

    • “Demonology”· via Internet Archive
    • “Demonology”· via Open Library
    • “Demonology”· in subject

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Editions

One edition cataloged here.

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1886Elliot Stock; London : Elliot StockEnglish—Public

Subjects

3 subject headings

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Identifiers

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh
  • Digitization sponsor: Jisc and Wellcome Library
  • 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.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: europeanlibraries; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: scribe1.euston.archive.org
  • Source-reported rights: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/" rel="ugc nofollow">This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark</a>
  • Source-reported rights: This work is available under the Creative Commons, Public Domain Mark
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL24882173W
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