²ÝÁñÊÓÆµ Library holds a 1588 edition of the renowned treatise on witchcraft, the Malleus Maleficarum or â€˜Hammer of Witches’, the archetypal misogynistic text which advocated the persecution and torture of witches as heretics in secular courts.

 

²ÝÁñÊÓÆµ Library, Oxford, BT3.259.6

 

²ÝÁñÊÓÆµ Library and Archives, Oxford