Michel, Jean ( -1623)

Interrogatoire de Jean Michel magicien condamné d'estre bruslé vif en 1623. Possibly a contemporary copy extracted from the printed account of the trial. This was entitled 'Discours admirable d'un Magicien de la ville de Moulins qui avoit un Démon dans une phiole: condemné d'estre bruslé tout vif par Arrest de la Cour de Parlement'. Paris: A. Vitray. 1623. This tract was 'Réimprimé avec des notes sur la Sorcellerie en Bourbonnais' by A. Vayssières in 1894. [Cf. Yve-Plessis (R.) 'Bibliographie française...de la Sorcellerie'. 1900. No. 1570.] Produced in Moulins.

1623

1 volume 22 ll. (last bl.). folio. 301/2 201/2 cm. Modern boards. Piece cut out from lower margin of first leaf.

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Purchased 1912.

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).