WITCHCRAFT
Malleus Maleficarum
The 1487 inquisitors’ manual — the book that systematised the witch trials — held in the original Latin as evidence of what was believed and done, beside Scot’s Discoverie, the book written to demolish it.
Malleus Maleficarum runs to 245 passages. The whole of it is held here and free to read, searchable by reference or by the words in it.
The edition held here is Malleus Maleficarum (original Latin, 1580 Frankfurt edition) (1487), in Latin, in the public domain, from Latin Wikisource.
It sits on the estate's shelf of 106 sacred works, beside the complete Douay-Rheims Bible, an atlas of the places named in scripture, a timeline and a genealogy.