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Compendium maleficarum

collected in three books from many sources by Brother Francesco Maria Guazzo, showing iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated

Also known as Cardiff Rare Books Collection; Compendium maleficarum. English. 1929

by Francesco Maria Guazzo, Christian Deetjen, Montague Summers & E. Allen Ashwin

  • First published:
  • 17th century
  • Languages: English, Italian, Latin, Spanish
  • Content type: Primary source
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MANY authors have written at length concerning the force of imagination: for example Pico della Mirandola, De Imaginationibus; Marsilio Ficino, De Theologia Platonica, Book 13; Alonso Tostado, On Genesis, Chapter 30; Miguel de Medina, De Recta in Deum Fide, II, 7; Leonard Vair, De Fascino, II, 3; and countless others.

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 colenda and harvard matched “Witchcraft” and “witchcraft”. Retained metadata contains “witches” in the subtitle, “Witchcraft” in the subject metadata, “witches” in the edition title, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Witchcraft”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “witchcraft”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “witches”· in subtitle
    • “Witchcraft”· in subject
    • “witches”· in edition title
    • “witches”· in edition subtitle
  • Demonology, angelology, and possession

    Controlled discovery queries from bne, colenda, and openlibrary matched “Demonology”, “demonología”, and “Exorcism”. Retained metadata contains “Demonology” in the subject metadata, “demonología” in the subject metadata, and “Exorcism” in the subject metadata.

    • “demonología”· via Biblioteca Nacional de España
    • “Demonology”· via Colenda Digital Repository — University of Pennsylvania Libraries
    • “Exorcism”· via Open Library
    • “Demonology”· in subject
    • “demonología”· in subject
    • “Exorcism”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 18 editions; 4 cataloged here.

Biblioteca Nacional de España record

24 cm; 345 p.; il.

[2002]Club UniversitarioSpanish
  • 8484541401
Catalog record

ex quo nefandissima in genus humanum opera venefica, ac ad illa vitanda remedia conspiciuntur

University of Pennsylvania digitized edition

16 unnumbered pages, 391 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to); Dedicated to Antonio Sorbelloni.; Engraved t.p.; head-pieces; initials.; Signatures: a-b⁴ A-3C⁴.

1626Ex Collegij Ambrosiani typographiaLatin—Public download

Compendium maleficarum : showing the iniquitous and execrable operations of witches against the human race, and the divine remedies by which they may be frustrated

HathiTrust catalog record

1970——
  • 9780389040385
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Subjects

17 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

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OCLC
Open Library work
Internet Archive
HathiTrust
BNE
  • 991009846929708606
Colenda
  • ark:/81431/p3cf9k77v
Harvard
  • 990000031160203941

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Open Library reports 18 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9943743493503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Lea Collection, S-20.5.10
  • Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1146102W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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