TY - BOOK ID - 78403098 TI - Forbidden rites PY - 1998 SN - 9780271017501 9780271041728 9780271017518 0271041722 0271017503 0271017511 PB - University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State University Press DB - UniCat KW - Magic KW - Demonology KW - History. KW - Bayerische Staatsbibliothek. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78403098 AB - "Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages." "Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, it is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents - prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials."--BOOK JACKET ER -