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Collection: Witchcraft and Magic in England, c. 1400–1920 Volumes British Library
Content sourced from the British Library includes rare manuscript sources, some dating from as early as the fourteenth century. Included are items from the collections of the physician, collector, and botanist, Sir Hans Sloane, and from that amassed by the British statesman, Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford (Sloane MS and Harley MS). These include treatises and tracts on astrology, alchemy, astronomy, and natural philosophy. There are printed works concerned with occult science, magic, and divinity, as well as astrological almanacs (e.g. 718.g.54.) and herbals (e.g. C.71.d.22.).
The sources also include over 50 popular ballads, pamphlets, and tracts concerning accusations of witchcraft (e.g. G.19147.(3)), trials (e.g. C.27.a.2.), as well as condemnations and executions from the mid-sixteenth century onwards. In addition, the volume includes accounts—dating mainly from the seventeenth century—of visitations, possessions (e.g. E.367.(4.)), apparitions (e.g. G.13201.), curses, and poisonings.
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08631.de.16: The Key to the Tarot, Being Fragments of a Secret Tradition Under the Veil of Divination, by Arthur Edward Waite
Date:1910-1910
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A1
Archive Reference(s):08631.de.16.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A1
Archive Reference(s):08631.de.16.
08632.ff.60: The Private Companion; Being a Familiar and Historical Elucidation of the Theory and Practice of Alchemy, Necromancy, Astrology, Cartomancy, Chiromancy, etc. by Merlin Secundus
Date:1820-1820
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A2
Archive Reference(s):08632.ff.60.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A2
Archive Reference(s):08632.ff.60.
1395.a.15: A True Discourse Concerning the Certaine Possession and Dispossessio of 7 Persons in One Familie in Lancashire, by George More
Date:1600-1600
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A11
Archive Reference(s):1395.a.15.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A11
Archive Reference(s):1395.a.15.
1607/4633(2): Paracelsus of the Chymical Transmutation, Genealogy, and Generation of Metals and Minerals
Date:1657-1657
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A13
Archive Reference(s):1607/4633(2)
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A13
Archive Reference(s):1607/4633(2)
1608/2297: A Treatise Against Witchcraft; or, A Dialogue, Wherein the Greatest Doubts Concerning that Sinne, are Briefly Answered
Date:1590-1590
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A14
Archive Reference(s):1608/2297.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A14
Archive Reference(s):1608/2297.
1608/616: Pronostycacyon of Mayster John Thybault, Medycyner and Astronomer of the Emperyall Majestie
Date:1533-1533
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A15
Archive Reference(s):1608/616.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A15
Archive Reference(s):1608/616.
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1608/731: A Treatise of Witchcraft [...] With a True Narration of the Witchcrafts Which Mary Smith, Wife of Henry Smith Glouer, Did Practise
Date:1616-1616
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A19
Archive Reference(s):1608/731.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A19
Archive Reference(s):1608/731.
1651/1318: A Description of New Philosophical Furnaces, or A New Art of Distilling, Divided into Five Parts. By John Rudolph Glauber
Date:1651-1651
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A21
Archive Reference(s):1651/1318.
Contributor:British Library
Identifier:73976-A21
Archive Reference(s):1651/1318.
