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Malleus Maleficarum (title page) by Heinrich Kramer
Cover of the seventh Cologne edition of the Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 (The University of Sydney).
Bibliographic record at the University of Sydney Library.

Transcript:

Latina:
MALLEVS
MALEFICA-
RVM, MALEFI=
cas, & earum hærism, vt
phramea potentissima
conterens.
Translation:
English: The Hammer of Witches which destroyeth Witches and their heresy like a most powerful spear[1]
  1. The English translation is from this note to Summers' 1928 introduction.
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Malleus Maleficarum, the Hammer of Witches, a 1486 treatise on witchcraft.

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