Occult Literature
Tractatus de Fascinatione: Engraved Title Page
A central panel names Tractatus de Fascinatione, its author Christian Frommann and the year 1674. Narrative groups occupy three registers around the title, including figures holding children and lines drawn between people, animals and the sky. Elworthy reproduces the older engraved page at the opening of The Evil Eye. It presents a visual argument about fascination rather than a decorative title without a named source.
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Illustrator not identified. "Tractatus de Fascinatione: Engraved Title Page" [editorial title]. In The Evil Eye, Frederick Thomas Elworthy. London: John Murray, 1895; Wellcome Collection scan, 1895, J. Murray. Source scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0049-0002
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Illustrator not identified. Tractatus de Fascinatione: Engraved Title Page. The Evil Eye. Scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0049-0002