Liber Octo Quaestionum ad Maximilianum Caesarem
A Book of Eight Questions to Emperor Maximilian
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Damage-preserving review rendering with tenor detection and footnoting. Damage class: unrecoverable_blocks_present; OCR quality: 1/5.
Audit note — V1 silently normalized the pact/obedience sentence and ended with a mild [unclear], but the page actually contains a massive unrecoverable OCR block after the Matthew allusion.
Liber Octo Quaestionum, p. 067 fragment
Ioa. Tritemii Octo Quaest.
[unclear]na, having despised the religion of Christ,^1 sought helps in necessity from demons.^2 But all those for whom malignant spirits,^3 when summoned by the conjurations^4 of necromancers,^5 [unclear: offer/are brought into] obedience [unclear], are without doubt transferred [conjectured: through a pact] explicit or implicit.^6
Yet the number of the remaining people is greater: those for whom the malignant spirits fail in obedience, although they are not afraid at every time to occupy themselves in the profane acts of necromancers. And because especially in our times iniquity has begun to abound, and the charity of many has grown cold,^7 these accursed [unclear] and [unclear] [large unrecoverable OCR block].
^1. religione Christi: Christian religious allegiance or worship; the syntax is damaged, but contempta/contemptae religione Christi is plainly a contempt/despising of Christ's religion.
^2. daemonibus: demons; the immediate theological point is illicit recourse to demonic aid in need.
^3. maligni spiritus: evil/malign spirits, a standard demonological term.
^4. coniurationibus: conjurations or adjurations; ritual summoning formulae, not merely political conspiracies.
^5. Necromanticorum: necromancers; OCR is fairly stable here, though capitalization reflects print/OCR rather than a proper name.
^6. paoeu explicituoe vel implicituoe: read with high confidence as pactu[m] explicitum vel implicitum or similar. The OCR has repeated oe/terminal-confusion scannos for early-print letters and abbreviation marks; the sense is a demonological explicit or implicit pact.
^7. abundare cepit iniquitas, & refriguit charitas mult...: alludes to Matthew 24:12, "because iniquity shall abound, the charity/love of many shall grow cold." multoeoe is an OCR-corrupted form of multorum or similar.