COMPENDIUM

OF WITCHES

133.3 G 93 Library call number added by a later hand.

Divided into three books

COLLECTED FROM MANY AUTHORS

BY BROTHER FRANCESCO

MARIA GUAZZO

Of the Order of Saint Ambrose ad Nemus, and adorned

with many figures and images:

From which the most wicked and cursed sorceries against

the human race are identified, and Divine remedies

for avoiding them are prepared.

WITH PRIVILEGE,

A "privilege" was an early form of copyright granted by legal or ecclesiastical authorities.

An elaborate woodcut printer's device or emblem. The central oval shows a salamander sitting in a fire. A banner above the creature contains the motto "THUS ENVY YIELDS TO VIRTUE" original: "SIC CEDIT INVIDIA VIRTVTI". The oval is enclosed in a highly decorative frame with scrolls and floral motifs, supported by two female caryatids who carry baskets of fruit on their heads. A small cherub's head sits at the top center, and a grotesque mask is featured at the bottom center.
WESTON COLLEGE LIBRARY, WESTON, MASS.

MILAN, original: "MEDIOLANI"

At the House of the Heirs of Agostino Tradati. 1608.

With the permission of the Superiors.

This indicates the book passed the official censorship of the Catholic Church.