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Doctor Johann Weyer, ein rheinischer Arzt, der erste Bekämpfer des Hexenwahns : ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kulturgeschichte des 16. Jahrhunderts ; mit den Bildnissen Weyers und seines Lehrers Agrippa.

Karl Binz, Glasgow University Library · 1885 · Bonn, 1885. · 2 pictures

A German scholarly biography from 1885 by Karl Binz, published in Bonn, about the physician Johann Weyer, an early opponent of witch persecution in the sixteenth century. The two engraved portraits show Weyer's teacher Agrippa in a fur-trimmed cap with a Latin inscription, and an unnamed man holding a skull under the motto Vince te ipsum. A designer might take the period costume, the skull as a memento mori motif, and the framed Latin lettering.

Witchcraft · Johann Weyer

Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 (public domain) · More from this library