SPRENGER, Jakob (1436-1495) and KRMER, Heinrich. (ca,1430-1505). Malleus maleficarum . [Speier: Peter Drach, 1490]. 2 o (280 x 201mm). Collation: a 8 b-d 6 ef 8 g-h 6 i 8 k-r 6 (a1r title, a1v Apologia auctoris, a2r Tenor bulle apostolice adversas heresim maleficarum, a4r tabula, a5r text, r6r colophon, r6v blank). 145 leaves. 48 lines. Types: 10:160G (title and headings), 13:80G (text). Spaces for 3- and 4-line initial capitals. Lombard capitals, paragraph marks, initial strokes and capital strokes supplied in red. (Scattered small wormholes affecting several early and final two quires, a 6mm. track catching a few letters of text on first six leaves, a few light marginal dampstains.) Contemporary half blind-stamped pigskin and wooden boards, the pigskin blind-tooled in a diaper pattern, in each compartment a rosette stamp, brass clasp and catch. (Spine rubbed, wormholes to leather.) Provenance : a few marginalia in an early hand, last page (blank) with extensive note in a contemporary German hand. Second Edition (first 1486-87) of The Hammer of Witches , the most fundamental early book on witchcraft and demonology, a revealing early document for the history of psychiatry. Compiled by two respected Cologne theologians and inquisitors, it is prefaced by the papal bull Summis desiderantes of Innocent VII which sanctioned the interrogation and punishment of those believed to be witches. Parts 1 and 2 give a detailed description of the lore and practices of witches and demons, while the third and final part of the work, aimed at civil and ecclesiatical authorities, specifies detailed procedures for conducting witchcraft investigations and trials. The book became the standard work on the subject and was frequently reprinted until well into the seventeenth century, occasionally in conjunction with manuals for excorcism and related works (see lots 196 and 197). "As the first encyclopedia of witchcraft, the Hammer of Witches maintained a pre-eminent position of authority for nearly 200 years, providing both foundation and inspiration for all later European treatises on witchcraft" (Norman). Robbins [---], called it "without question the most important and most sinister work on demonology ever written. It crystallized into a fiercely stringent code previous folklore about black magic with church dogma on heresy, and, if any one work could, opened the floodgates of the inquisitorial hysteria" (pp. 337-340). T he work was clearly an early, though grossly misconceived, attempt to study and explain abnormal psychology, and, "if we agree with Johann Weyer that witches were possessed by nothing more than mental illness, then the Malleus maleficarum may be viewed...as a contemporary handbook of psychopathology and an early document in the history of psychiatry" (Norman). Goff I-164; BMC II. 498 (IB.8615); H *9239; Klebs 926.2; Norman 1991.
SPRENGER, Jakob (1436-1495) and KRMER, Heinrich. (ca,1430-1505). Malleus maleficarum . [Speier: Peter Drach, 1490]. 2 o (280 x 201mm). Collation: a 8 b-d 6 ef 8 g-h 6 i 8 k-r 6 (a1r title, a1v Apologia auctoris, a2r Tenor bulle apostolice adversas heresim maleficarum, a4r tabula, a5r text, r6r colophon, r6v blank). 145 leaves. 48 lines. Types: 10:160G (title and headings), 13:80G (text). Spaces for 3- and 4-line initial capitals. Lombard capitals, paragraph marks, initial strokes and capital strokes supplied in red. (Scattered small wormholes affecting several early and final two quires, a 6mm. track catching a few letters of text on first six leaves, a few light marginal dampstains.) Contemporary half blind-stamped pigskin and wooden boards, the pigskin blind-tooled in a diaper pattern, in each compartment a rosette stamp, brass clasp and catch. (Spine rubbed, wormholes to leather.) Provenance : a few marginalia in an early hand, last page (blank) with extensive note in a contemporary German hand. Second Edition (first 1486-87) of The Hammer of Witches , the most fundamental early book on witchcraft and demonology, a revealing early document for the history of psychiatry. Compiled by two respected Cologne theologians and inquisitors, it is prefaced by the papal bull Summis desiderantes of Innocent VII which sanctioned the interrogation and punishment of those believed to be witches. Parts 1 and 2 give a detailed description of the lore and practices of witches and demons, while the third and final part of the work, aimed at civil and ecclesiatical authorities, specifies detailed procedures for conducting witchcraft investigations and trials. The book became the standard work on the subject and was frequently reprinted until well into the seventeenth century, occasionally in conjunction with manuals for excorcism and related works (see lots 196 and 197). "As the first encyclopedia of witchcraft, the Hammer of Witches maintained a pre-eminent position of authority for nearly 200 years, providing both foundation and inspiration for all later European treatises on witchcraft" (Norman). Robbins [---], called it "without question the most important and most sinister work on demonology ever written. It crystallized into a fiercely stringent code previous folklore about black magic with church dogma on heresy, and, if any one work could, opened the floodgates of the inquisitorial hysteria" (pp. 337-340). T he work was clearly an early, though grossly misconceived, attempt to study and explain abnormal psychology, and, "if we agree with Johann Weyer that witches were possessed by nothing more than mental illness, then the Malleus maleficarum may be viewed...as a contemporary handbook of psychopathology and an early document in the history of psychiatry" (Norman). Goff I-164; BMC II. 498 (IB.8615); H *9239; Klebs 926.2; Norman 1991.
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