Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe: The Clandestine Trade in Illegal Book Collections

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2017
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Number of Pages
166 pp.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham, Switzerland
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Region
Chronological Period
ISBN
9783319595245
Annotation

Examines a collection of 'learned magic' manuscripts sold through the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. 

Contents: 

  • Introduction
  • Exceptionality
  • Scarcity
  • Illegality
  • Conclusions 

Appendices:

  • Appendix A: The catalogus rariorum manuscriptorum
  • Appendix B: Images of the original catalogue (1710)