OSUNA, Francisco de. [with] NAS, Johannes.

£7,500 · Offered by Sokol Books

.A fascinating collection of two rare German anti-Lutheran works, both in first edition, concerning witchcraft, exorcism and the devil. . Flagellum Diaboli (Scourge of the Devils), is an interesting treatise on demonology and witchcraft attributed to the Spanish mystic Francisco de Osuna (c. 1492-1540) but only known in this German translation by Egidius Albertinus (1560-1620). The attribution to Osuna is disputed, as the work in its surviving form appears to be very German-centered, drawing largely from German sources and focuses on disputing Luther s doctrines. Albertinus was an influential writer and translator, as well as advocate of the persecution of witches. Flagellum diaboli , and particularly its first part, is essentially a paraphrasis in translation of Short Work on Witches (1507) by the Tubingen theologian Martin Plantsch. The second part of the work is the most innovative, defending the Catholic practices of exorcism and consecration of the holy water against the attacks of Protestant rationalists: The second part ( ) contained a point-by-point advocacy of each of the Church s remedies against hostile sorcery ( ) the Flagellum departed from its source [Plantsch] to apostrophize holy water and its benefits, and to excoriate those Protestants who claimed that all waters are equally blessed by God at the creation ( ) After a whole series of arguments from the symbolic significance of holy water, the text added: ( ) [Protestants] are like dogs which bark at everythin

• Binding: Hardcover

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