Magical Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe

Daniel Bellingradt is Professor of Book Studies at Erlangen-Nuremberg University, Germany, co-editor of the German Yearbook for the History of Communications, and co-editor of Books in Motion in Early Modern Europe. Beyond Production, Circulation and Consumption (2017).Bernd-Christian Otto is postdoctoral researcher at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His book publications include Magie. Rezeptions- und diskursgeschichtliche Analysen von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit (2011), and, as co-editor, Defining Magic: A Reader (2013), and History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past (2015).

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Exceptionality.- 3.Scarcity.-  4.Illegality.- 5.Conclusions.-  6.Appendix A: The CATALOGUS RARIORUM MANUSCRIPTORUM.- 7. Appendix B: Images of the original catalogue (1710).-