²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library holds a 1588 edition of the renowned treatise on witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum or ‘Hammer of Witches’, the archetypal misogynistic text which advocated the persecution and torture of witches as heretics in secular courts.
²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT3.259.6