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Title
A treatise on witchcraft demonstrated by facts in the family of Edward Fairfax, esq. of Fuystone, Yorkshire, 1621: with many curious plates /transcribed from an old manuscript by Ebenezer Sibly, M.D.
Creator
Fairfax, Edward, -1635.
Sibly, E. (Ebenezer), 1751-1800.
Date Created and/or Issued
1793
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: One of seven recorded manuscripts of Edward Fairfax's witchcraft work, "Daemonologia". The ink drawings are by Sibly and are based on Miles Gale's illustrations in the British Library manuscript. A key to the illustrations is included.
Condition: Bound in contemporary tree calf, rebacked.
Type
text
Extent
[5] leaves, [39] p., [4] leaves, [12] p., [34] leaves of plates :ill. ;25 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1sg7b
MS.2004.002
Language
English
eng
Subject
Witchcraft--England--Yorkshire.
Witchcraft--Early works to 1800.
Location
CLUW

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