Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe: The Clandestine Trade In Illegal Book Collections by Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto

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

New Directions in Book History

Daniel Bellingradt, Bernd-Christian Otto

175 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

adventurous informative medium-paced

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This book presents the story of a unique collection of 140 manuscripts of ‘learned magic’ that was sold for a fantastic sum within the clandestine channels of the German book trade in the early eighteenth century. The book will interpret this coll...

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