Trois liures des charmes, sorcelages, ou enchantemens : esquels toutes les especes & causes des charmes sont methodiquement descrites & doctement expliques selon l'opinion tant des philosophes que les theologiens; auec les vrais contrepoisons pour rabattre les impostures & illusions des daemons: & par mesme moyen les vaines bourdes qu'on met en auant touchant les causes de la puissance des sorceleries y sont clairement refutees / faicts en Latin par Leonard Vair, Espagnol ... & mis en François par Iulian Baudon, Angeuin ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vairo, Leonardo, Bishop of Pozzuoli, -1603.

Contributor:

Baudon, Julian.

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

De fascino libri tres. French

Language:

French

Latin

Subjects (All):

Charms--Early works to 1800.

Charms.

Witchcraft--Early works to 1800.

Witchcraft.

Magic--Early works to 1800.

Magic.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (bookplate)

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages, 553 pages, 70 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Trois livres des charmes, sorcelages, ou enchantemens

Fingerprint:

esre N.u, e.i- deme (3) 1583 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : Chez Nicolas Chesneau ..., MDLXXXIII [1583]

Language Note:

In French, translated from the Latin.

Notes:

"Leonardo Vair was a Spaniard, Prior of Santa Sofia of Beneventum. He wrote in Latin and published in Paris in 1583, so that this French version must have appeared simultaneously."--Lea, Henry C. Materials toward a history of witchcraft, p. 465.

Signatures: ā⁸ A-2Q⁸.

Dedicated (by Baudon) to Dr. Babineau.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy has Henry Charles Lea's bookplate on rear pastedown and autograph dated 1881 on front free endpaper.

Lea Library copy has effaced inscription on title page; bookseller's notes on inside pastedown; "Aix" written in pen next to publication information on title page.

Lea Library copy has a few ms. notes in pen.

OCLC:

7014306