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The history of the devils of Loudun, or, an account of the possession of the Ursuline nuns

and the condemnation and punishment of Urban Grandier, a parson of the same town : in three books

by approximately 1655- Aubin & Mr Boyer

  • First published:
  • 18th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Translation of Aubin's Histoire des diables de Loudun Final five pages contain publisher's advertisement Signatures: A⁴ B-Y⁸ NLM copy, imperfect: title page mutilated, with loss of most of title; the title supplied from caption of Book I differs from the fragment. No perfect copy located Blake, J. NLM 18th cent. ESTC NLM copy, Library holds rebound volume and original covers removed for rebinding Condition reviewed digitized

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Witchcraft and folk magic

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata.

    • Witchcraft· via Internet Archive
    • Witchcraft· in subject
  • Retained metadata contains “possession” in the title and “possession” in the edition title.

    • possession· in title
    • possession· in edition title

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

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and the condemnation and punishment of Urban Grandier, a parson of the same town : in three books

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1705-01-01T00:00:00ZEnglishPublic digitized item

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • 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.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary; usnationallibraryofmedicine
Catalog id
internet-archive:2439011R.nlm.nih.gov
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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