Katalog der Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek byGedeon BorsaReview by: Andrew PettegreeThe Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Fall, 2008), p. 863Published by: The Sixteenth Century JournalStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20479076 .

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Book Reviews 863

Katalog der Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts in der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Gedeon Borsa. Baden-Baden: Valentin Koerner, 2007. 396 pp. ?140.00. ISBN 978-3 87320-712-7.

REVIEWED BY: Andrew Pettegree, University of St. Andrews

The Austrian National Library (Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek), hereafter ONB, in Vienna has one of the great collections of early printed books, with many rare and unique items in German, Latin, and French. The library has over 8,000 incunabula and around 42,000 books printed in the sixteenth century. It is therefore very much to be welcomed that this collection should be better known. Nevertheless, the rationale for embarking on this printed catalogue is somewhat obscure. The catalogue of the ONB's rare book collection is already available (and fully searchable) online. It is hard therefore to know who will be the users of this conventional print version, particularly while it is incomplete. The present vol ume is the first in a series that will present, arranged alphabetically by author, the library's sixteenth-century books published within the German-language zone; this is within the remit of VD16, the German equivalent of the STC. This comprises a total of some 24,000 items. The present volume covers the letter A (1186 entries) and B as far as Biber (553 entries). 90 percent of the works listed here are fully described in the VD16. Where this is the case the VD16 reference letter and number is given in the entry, which follows the house style of the long-established Index Aureliensis. About 7 percent of the books in the ONB collection are unknown to the VD16. In these cases the catalogue entry is accompanied by a reproduction of the title page. This is also the case for books known to the VD16, but for which VD16 does not provide a full title page description (normally because the copy held in the ONB is the unique surviving copy and known to the compilers of the VD16 only through bibliographical references). In the longer term, therefore, this catalogue will per form a useful function in drawing attention to books published in Germany and German speaking parts of the Swiss Confederation previously not fully documented in VD16, and it is therefore to be hoped that the volumes in this series follow swiftly (to complete only that part of the collection dealing with the German-speaking parts of Europe will require a fur ther thirteen volumes). Meanwhile most readers will continue to consult the catalogue online. This catalogue will be an essential purchase only for major research libraries that pride themselves on holding a comprehensive bibliographical reference section.

The Malleus Maleficarum: Selected, translated and annotated. P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007. 266 pp. $80.00. ISBN 978-0-7190 6442-5.

REVIEWED BY: Hilaire Kallendorf, Texas A&M University

The scholarly world has long needed a new translation/edition of the Malleus malefi carum, and finally now P. G. Maxwell-Stuart has provided it. For many years the only trans lation available in English has been the Reverend Montague Summers' notoriously biased and inaccurate one (London: John Rodker, 1928). Given the historical importance of this text and its ramifications for the so-called witch-burning craze, it is surprising that no one has tackled this formidable task before now.

The broad-ranging introduction does a good job of placing the Malleus as a cultural artifact within the wider context of Apocalyptic thought, the Turkish threat to Western Christendom, and the very nature of faith and heresy. It also offers a series of guideposts to

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