La Palud, Madeleine de Demandolx de (1593-1670) & Gaufridy, Louis Jean Baptiste (1572-1611)

Copies of documents and extracts from the Procès-verbal relating to the trial of Father Louis Gaufridy, accused and afterwards burnt at the stake in 1611, for Satanism and witchcraft, against Madeleine de la Palud: and of her own trial in 1653 on a charge of witchcraft. By several hands, in French throughout. As a result of the 1653 trial, Mdlle, de la Palud was sentenced to a mild form of life-imprisonment.

c. 1700

1 volume 6 bl. ll. + 453 ll. + 8 bl. ll. 4to. 251/2 × 181/2 cm. Original calf binding. The Sentence of Death upon Gaufridy is written on two folio sheets, the lower margins of which are folded over and damaged.

Purchased 1930.

The case has been exhaustively dealt with by Jean Lorédan in his 'Un grand procès de sorcellerie au XVIIe siècle', Paris, 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).