[Next Project] Malleus Malificarum by Heinrich Kramer

[Jason Livermore]

Guess I'll tackle this one.

https://sacred-texts.com/pag/mm/
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000584799

I note that Alex has artwork picked out.

I can pull in the footnotes and front matter from the source that I noted on the other thread.

They match the scans for this 1928 edition. There is an introduction, a note on the bibliography, and the papal bull, that all give some background and context to the main work.

[Alex Cabal]

OK! Send a link to your repo once you start. I'll assign the cover art then.

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[Jason Livermore]

Repo: https://github.com/javamanatee/heinrich-kramer_malleus-maleficarum_montague-summers

[Alex Cabal]

OK, Robin will manage with Weijia reviewing. I'll assign the artwork

On 5/28/26 9:22 PM, Jason Livermore wrote:
> Repo: https://github.com/javamanatee/heinrich-kramer_malleus-
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> On Wednesday, May 27, 2026 at 6:31:11 PM UTC-5 Alex Cabal wrote:
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> OK! Send a link to your repo once you start. I'll assign the cover
> art then.
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> On 5/27/26 6:29 PM, Jason Livermore wrote:
> > Guess I'll tackle this one.
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> > I note that Alex has artwork picked out.
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> > I can pull in the footnotes and front matter from the source that I
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[Jason Livermore]

As I'm working through the horribly formatted HTML files, it looks like chunks of text are missing, compared to the scans.  I will pull these from the archived website that Sacred Texts says it's based on.  Now I'm working through the overall file organization.  The divisions and headers are very irregular but this is my tentative scheme.  Compare with the contents in the scan:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=15

Introduction - introduction-1
A Note Upon the Bibliography - introduction-2
The Bull of Innocent III - introduction-3

Part I - part-1
  Question I - chapter-1-1 (chapter)
  Question II - chapter-1-2 (chapter)
  ...
  Question XIII - chapter-1-13 (chapter)
    "Solution of the Arguments" subchapter
  Question XIV - chapter-1-14 (chapter)
    "That witches deserve..."
  ...
  Question XVIII - chapter-1-18 (chapter)
Part II - part-2
  Question I - chapter-2-1 (chapter)
    Chapter I - chapter-2-1-1  subchapter
    ..
    Chapter XVI - chapter-2-1-16  subchapter
  Question II - chapter-2-2 (chapter)
    Chapter I - chapter-2-2-1  subchapter
    ..
    Chapter VIII - chapter-2-2-8  subchapter
Part III - part-3

  General & Introductory - several pages, can be part of "part-3" text?
  THE FIRST HEAD - Is this a real division or just an extra heading?

    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=259
  Question I - chapter-3-1 (chapter)
  ...
  Question V - chapter-3-5 (chapter)
  THE SECOND HEAD - Another division?
  Question VI - chapter-3-6 (chapter)
  ...
  Question XVI - chapter-3-16 (chapter)
  THE THIRD HEAD - Another division, but it has a couple of paragraphs before getting to the following question

    https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=288
  Question XVII - chapter-3-17 (chapter)
  ...
  Question XXXV - chapter-3-35 (chapter)
Endnotes (to be added from web archive source)

Perhaps other subchapters if there are major headings within the chapters.

Any comments or corrections on this?

[Robin Whittleton]

I’d add the part-3 introduction text as a bodymatter introduction file, rather than including it directly in part-3.xhtml.

Given the multiple sections in part 3 I think it makes sense to split it into further divisions (“A major structural division that may also appear as a substructure of a part”) and move the chapters under those.

If there are major headings inside the chapters then yes, subchapters.

-Robin

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[Jason Livermore]

I'm looking at all the little headers at the beginnings of the Questions in Part 1.  I'm leaning towards something like a bridgehead semantic, as the italics chunks at the beginning of each question should summarize what is being addressed for that "chapter"/"question". These chunks could also be chapter titles, but it's kind of inconsistent...

Question1, the italicized text chunk is basically saying "we're starting here."  The actual question is in the beginning of the regular paragraph text.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=55

Question 2, no intro chunk, it just goes right in to regular paragraph.  First paragraph sentence is the question.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=66

Question 3, the intro italicized chunk is the question.  And most of the following chapters seem like this one.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=75

Seems like after the first couple of exceptions, and looking at Parts 2 and 3, the intro chunks largely match the book's ToC, so they could be titles.  Some of them get rather lengthy though, like this one for Part 3 Chapter 15.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005180917&seq=283

So what's a good way to handle these?  Another idea, editorial change: for the first two Questions, pull out the questions from the paragraph text, and make them title text like all the other chapters? 

[Robin Whittleton]

They look like bridgeheads to me:

A structurally insignificant heading that does not contribute to the hierarchical structure of the work.

For chapter 2, I would just omit the bridgehead. We don’t have to be consistent if the original text is inconsistent.

-Robin

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