Kieckhefer's second chapter describes the particular manuscript on which his study focuses, noting that it is really a compilation of materials, probably from a variety of sources, almost a scrapbook, and anonymous. The volume contains both the edited Latin text of the manuscript and a substantial introductory discussion which touches on the role of the book in the material culture of the period on the attitude toward magic both of the compiler of the manuscript and also of contemporary thinkers who reacted against such magic and on the relationship between the rituals of religion and of magic in the period. 3-108), which is neither unique nor particularly distinguished of its kind, can tell us about the culture which produced it and by which it was condemned as dangerous. Instead of focusing on magical theory in the period, Kieckhefer asks what such a practical and unabashedly demonic manual, a fifteenth-century manuscript in the Bavarian State Library in Munich (Clm 849, ff.
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