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91. The Mercurial demon of the alchemic philosophers. From Giovanni
Battista Nazari's Della transmutatione metallica, Brescia, 1589.
92. Lucifer with a triple face devouring Judas and two other sufferers.
From Opere del poeta Danthe, printed by Bernardino Stagnino, Venice,
1512.
93. Demons designed by Hans Holbein the Younger, from Historiarum Veteris
Testamenti icones, printed by Johan and Fraciscus Frellon, Lyons, 1543.
94. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the prideful are broken
on the wheel. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers, printed by
Nicolas le Rouge, Troyes, 1496.
95. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the envious are immersed
in freezing water. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers.
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96. Title page showing the jaws of Hell with Lucifer and Satan. From
the Livre de la Deablerie, printed by Michel le Noir, Paris, 1568.
97. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the angry are dismembered
alive. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers, printed by Nicolas
le Rouge, Troyes, 1496.
98. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the slothful are thrown
into snake-pits. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers.
99. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the greedy are put into
cauldrons of boiling oil. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers.
100. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the gluttonous are
forcefed on toads, rats, and snakes. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers.
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101. Death leaving the mouth of Hell and hunting a victim. From The
Boke named the Royal, printed by Wynkyn de Worde for William Caxton,
London, 1507.
102. Macabre printer's device, using serpernts, skull, and hourglass as
symbols of Death. The mark of Andreas Gesner, Zurich, 1550.
103. Relic monstrance in the form of skull and sword, symbol of the Society
of Mauricius. From Lucas Cranach the Elder's Heiligthums Buch, Wittemberg,
1509.
104. Hanging of a farm woman declared by the Inquisition to be possessed
by demons. From Rappresentatione della Passione, Florence, 1520.
105. Two Dominican monks burned at the stake by order of the Inquisition
for allegedly signing pacts with the Devil. From the Histoire veritable
de quatre lacopins, Geneva, 1549.
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106. Witch riding to the sabbath. From Ulrich Molitor's Hexen
Meysterey, 1545.
107. Wizard riding to the sabbath. From Hexen Meysterey.
108. Witches' brew. From Abraham Saur's Ein Kurtze Treue Warning
(A Short, True Warning), printed at Frankfurt, 1582.
109. The Devil carrying a witch off to Hell. From Olaus Magnus' Historia
de gentibus septentrionalibus, Rome, 1555.
110. The sorceror Gilbert shackled by the warlock Catillum on the isle
of Weterlacus. From Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus.
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111. Broadside newsletter about the public burning of three witches
at Derneburg (Harz), October 1555.
112. Infernal punishment for the Seven Deadly Sins: the lustful are smothered
in fire and brimstone. From Le grant kalendrier des Bergiers, printed
by Nicolas le Rouge, Troyes, 1496.
113. Dives in Hell and Lazarus in Heaven. From Jacob Sprenger and H. Insitor's
Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), printed by Jean Patit,
Paris, 1510.
114. Reform minister officiating at the marriage of the fool and the she-devil.
From Thomas Murner's anti-Lutheran pamphlet Von dem grossen Lutherischen
Narren, about 1518.
115. Martin Luther's triumph over the monk's devil. From Mattheus Gnidius'
Dialogi, a Reform pamphlet against the Papists Murner and Weddel,
Germany, 1521.
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116. Detail of a page from Horae, published by Simon Vostre.
Printed by Philippe Pigouchet, Paris, 1496-97.
117. Detail of a page from Horae by Simon Vostre.
118. Detail of a page from Horae by Simon Vostre.
119. Les Trois Morts. Detail from the opening two pages of Horae,
printed by Jean Dupré in Paris, about 1488.
120. Dives in Hell. From Jean Dupré's Horae, 1488-90.
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