The Malleus Maleficarum when submitted by the authors to the University of Cologne was officially approved by all the Doctors of the Theological Faculty on 9 May, 1487.
2. Several Discourses and various sermons against the four errors which have newly arisen with regard to the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, now collected and brought together by the Professor of Scripture of the Church of Salzburg, Brother Henry Kramer, of the Order of Preachers, General Inquisitor of heretical pravity. Published at Nuremberg by Antony Koberger, 4to, 1496. This work is divided into three parts:
1. The First Part. A Tractate against the errors of the preacher who taught that Christ was only to be conditionally worshipped in the Blessed Sacrament: A Reply to the objection raised by this preacher, and XI sermons on the Blessed Sacrament.
- The Second Part. XIX Sermons on the Blessed Sacrament.
- The Third Part. 1. Further Six Sermons on the Sacrament.
2. Advice and cautels for priests.
3. A little Treatise concerning the miraculous Host and the species of Blood which have been reserved for the space of 300 years at Augsburg, or a sharp confutation of the error which asserts that the miraculous Sacrament of the Eucharist, whilst there is the appearance in the Host of Blood or Human Flesh or the form of a Figure, is not truly the Blessed Sacrament, with the promulgation of the Ban of Excommunication against all and sundry who dare to entertain this opinion. A copy of this book may be found at Paris in the library of our monastery of S. Honorat.[1]
It was about the same time, 1497–98, that certain refractory and unruly spirits took great exception against the censure which the Bishop of Trèves,[2] who was a legatus de latere from the Apostolic See, and the Patriarch of Venice had pronounced on Antonio degli Roselli of Arezzo and his book De Monarchia siue de potestate imperatoris, and since these rash men openly averred that the censure and condemnation of this work had not been brought about in any just or legal way, Fr. Henry was requested by Don Antonio de’ Pizamanni, a patrician of Venice, who was also a Doctor of Sacred Theology, to write a tractate impugning this said book of Antonio degli Roselli. Accordingly Fr. Kramer composed his opuscule with the following title:
3. Here beginneth a Tractate confuting the errors of Master Antonio degli Roselli of Padua, jurisconsult, concerning the plenary power of the Supreme Pontiff and the power of a temporal monarch. The conclusion is as follows: Here endeth the Reply of the Inquisitor-General of Germany, Fr. Henry Kramer, in answer to the erroneous and mistaken opinions of Antonio degli Roselli. Printed at Venice, at the Press of Giacomo de Lencho, at the charge of Peter Liechtenstein, 27 July, 1499.
4. The Shield of Defence of the Holy Roman Church against the Picards[3] and
- Sprenger and Kramer. Malleus Maleficarum.
- Vol. II:
- Anania, Giovanni Lorenzo. De Natura Daemonum.
- Basin, Bernard. De Artibus magicis.
- Bernard of Como, O.P. De Strigibus. (With the annotations of Francesco Peña.)
- Castro, O. M., Alfonso A. De impia Sortilegarum haeresi.
- De Vignate, Ambrose. Quaestio de Lamiis. (With a commentary by Peña.)
- Gerson, John. De Probatione Spirituum. De erroribus circa artem magicam reprobatis.
- Grilland, Paul. De Sortilegiis.
- Leone, Giovanni Francesco. De Sortilegiis.
- Molitor, Ulrich. De Pythonicis mulieribus.
- Murner, O.M., Thomas. De Pythonico Contractu.
- Simancus, Iago. De Lamiis.
- Spina, O.P., Bartolomeo. De Strigibus. In Ponzinibium de Lamiis Apologia.
- Vol. III:
- Gorichen, Heinrich de. De superstitionis quibusdam casibus.
- Mamor, Pietro. Flagellum maleficorum.
- Menghi, Girolamo, Capuchin. Flagellum Daemonum. Fustis Daemonum.
- Stampa, Pietro Antonio. Fuga Satanae.
- Vol. IV:
- Ars exorcistica tribus partibus.
- ↑ This great Saint is much honoured in France. He was Archbishop of Arles, and founder of the monastery of Lérins. Born about 350, he died in January, 429.
- ↑ John II, Margrave of Baden.
- ↑ The extremer Picards seem to have been an offshoot of the Behgards and to have professed the Adamite heresy. They called their churches Paradise and whilst engaged in common worship
