Roman Catholic Church

Manuale exorcismorum contra infestationes daemonum juxta normam Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae. With some added prayers, and the ceremonial to be used in cases of fever and other illnesses, by several later hands. On p. 15 is a pen-drawing 'Forma crucis ponenda in domibus in cuius medio includatur cera Agni vel Paschalis cerei' for use in exorcism. Title and headings in red. Pp. 95-end are blank. Pp. 80-86 contain 'Benedictio B. Salvatoris ab Horta contra febres'. Some notes and extracts written inside the covers are in German, and the signature in pencil of 'Adamus Knoertzer franciscanus' appears on the lower cover, by a later hand.

mid-18th century

1 volume 2 ll. + 169 pp. + 3 ll. 8vo. 141/2 × 10 cm. Original calf binding, worn.

Purchased 1911.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).