Note 65 — Front matter
Reading edition
“De vera et falsa magia,” partially printed at Cologne, 1592. Loos’s book, long supposed to have been destroyed by the Inquisition at the time of his forced recantation, I had the good fortune, in 1886, to find in MS. (apparently his own copy) on the shelves of the City Library at Trier (see the Nation for 11 Nov., 1886), and brought away a fac-simile. Since that time printed pages of it (so much as had been completed before its seizure) have been unearthed at the City Library of Cologne (see the Centralblatt für Bibliothekswesen, 1888, p. 455). The minutes of the trial of Loos’s compatriot and fellow-martyr, Dr. Dietrich Flade, of Trier, the most eminent victim of the persecution in Germany, which had also long been thought lost, are in the President White Library.