{"title":"Malleus Maleficarum","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Malleus Maleficarum in two editions: a Codex based on Montague Summers's 1928 English translation, and a limited Artefact reconstruction of the Latin text modelled on the 1669 Lyon edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"malleus-maleficarum-codex-edition","title":"Malleus Maleficarum: Codex Edition","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAvailable soon\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Codex Edition of the \u003cem\u003eMalleus Maleficarum\u003c\/em\u003e will be available for purchase soon. To be notified the moment it goes on sale, sign up to our newsletter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.theobsidiancodex.com\/#newsletter-signup\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSign up to be notified →\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 462-page edition based on Montague Summers's 1928 English translation of the \u003cem\u003eMalleus Maleficarum\u003c\/em\u003e. Set in Adobe Jenson Pro, a Renaissance-inspired typeface whose forms suit the work's historical character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrinted on 90 gsm wood-free stock, crisp and opaque with a subtle tactile surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in black cloth over 3 mm boards, with a rounded spine. Foil-stamped in gold on the front board, and on the spine with a Dominican cross in reference to Heinrich Kramer's order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Codex is housed in a red cloth slipcase with a silkscreened illustration adapted from a later English witchcraft woodcut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition also includes the papal bull \u003cem\u003eSummis desiderantes affectibus\u003c\/em\u003e (1484) and the Letter of Approbation from the University of Cologne (1487), the prefatory documents that helped establish the \u003cem\u003eMalleus\u003c\/em\u003e as an authorized and influential text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 × 10 in. (177.8 × 254 mm)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e462 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSmyth-sewn, rounded spine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on white 90 gsm wood-free paper\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlack cloth over 3 mm grey boards (FSC 100% recycled)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGold foil on front board and spine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-color endpapers on 140 gsm stock, matte laminated\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHead and tail bands\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRed cloth slipcase with silkscreened illustration adapted from a later English witchcraft woodcut\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Obsidian Codex Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48606647517389,"sku":"MAL-CODEX","price":995.0,"currency_code":"NOK","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3946\/5677\/files\/mm-codex-1.webp?v=1785230642"},{"product_id":"malleus-maleficarum-artefact-edition","title":"Malleus Maleficarum: Artefact Edition","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAvailable soon\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Artefact Edition of the \u003cem\u003eMalleus Maleficarum\u003c\/em\u003e will be available for purchase soon. To be notified the moment it goes on sale, sign up to our newsletter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.theobsidiancodex.com\/#newsletter-signup\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSign up to be notified →\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout this edition\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis limited edition is a newly typeset reconstruction of the Latin \u003cem\u003eMalleus Maleficarum\u003c\/em\u003e, collated from multiple sixteenth-century printed sources and modelled on the typographic structure of the 1669 Lyon edition, the last major historical printing before the work passed out of regular circulation. Every copy ships with a digital PDF of the English translation, so the Latin volume can be read alongside a modern text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWoodcuts, ornamental initials, printer's devices, and marginalia have been drawn from period sources, restored, and returned to their historical places within the text. Where original material was damaged or no longer extant, equivalent ornaments and cuts from the same printing tradition were selected in order to preserve the visual language of the early editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a careful reconstruction of the book as a printed object. Its structure, ornament, and typographic character have been preserved, while the text has been newly set throughout in typefaces modeled on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBound in black leatherette over 3 mm boards, the volume has a rounded spine with five raised bands. The spine is blind-debossed with papal keys, title, and date, while the front board bears a deep ox-blood cross. Each copy is housed in a matching black leatherette clamshell case with blind-debossed titling and an ox-blood satin lining.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 × 10 in. 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