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"This edition of Malleus maleficarum, comprising 1275 numbered copies, is here translated into English from the edition of 1489 for the first time ... This copy is no. 1088.
"A note upon the bibliography of the Malleus maleficarum": p. xli-xlii.

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On the left-hand side of the folio are seven more monstrous figures.

Top to bottom: Six Arms, Hairy Lady, Twelve Fingers, Half Horse (Centaur), Androgyn II, Four Eyes, Bird Neck and Beak

The world map is a simplified Ptolemaic map that…

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The fourteen images on this folio depict the monstrous races believed to populate the margins of the world. For each image, there is a corresponding block of text describing the visual qualities of the humanoid creature.

Left column, top to…

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