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Monthly Archives: December 2009

PRINTED 1470-1472: SORCERY AND THE ORIGINS OF THE WITCHCRAFT CRAZE

Sunday, December 13, 2009 Posted in Rare Books

A HUMANIST COPY OF ONE OF THE 15th CENTURY’S MOST IMPORTANT WORKS ONE OF THE EARLIEST OBTAINABLE INCUNABLES Nider, Johannes, ca. 1380-1438. Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive, Expositio decalogi]. (Basel : Berthold Ruppel, ca. 1470-1472) Folio. 30 x 21.5 cm., 330 leaves (i.e. 660 pages) ff. 1,24, 25 in contemporary manuscript. 37-38 lines and headline, double...

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