The books presented here are not ordinary books.
They are ancient objects connected to the invisible, conceived to confront, name, or contain what, for centuries, was perceived as evil.
Printed between the late sixteenth and the eighteenth century, these volumes bring together exorcism rites, conjurations, blessings, demonology, and texts devoted to the presence of the demon in the world of men. They belong to a time when evil was not a metaphor, but a feared, studied, and combated reality.
Some of these books were tools used in the field.
They were opened at the bedside of the dying, in houses deemed troubled, in the face of illness, fear, and that which escaped all rational explanation. Their portable format, worn bindings, and softened pages bear witness to repeated, sometimes urgent use.
Others are works of demonology, written to understand, classify, and describe the demon—his ruses, manifestations, and the means of defending against him. These texts do not belong to folklore: they are the product of a world obsessed with the boundary between the visible and the invisible.
The visible traces of time on these volumes—wear, annotations, stains, tired bindings—are not flaws. They are the marks of real contact with these books, held in hands convinced that printed words could act.
The works offered here are selected for their authenticity, their symbolic power, and their historical weight.
They belong neither to modern occultism nor to reconstruction.
They are material witnesses to a world in which the demon was taken seriously.
