Ex Libris Miskatonici
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It is well known that the Miskatonic University Library holds in its collection some of the rarest and most obscure volumes in occult literature. Until this time¸ access to materials within the library have been restricted to scholars and researchers¸ and only those with significant academic credentials. Now¸ in this greatly detailed and researched volume¸ university librarian Joan C. Stanley offers some background on the various collections to be found within the library¸ as well as detailed descriptions of many of the more infamous volumes contained therein. To be found in this book are chapters detailing histories of the librarys copies of The Pnakotic Manuscripts¸ The Eltdown Shards¸ The Celaeno¸ Gharne and Sussex Fragments¸ The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan¸ The Book of Dzyan¸ The Rlyeh Text¸ The Dhol Chants¸ The Ponape Scripture¸ Codex Dagonensis¸ Les Cultes des Goules¸ De Vermis Mysteriis¸ Peri ton Eibon or Liber Ivonis¸ Die Unaussprechlichen Kulten¸ as well as the most notorious volume in the universitys collection¸ The Necronomicon. This publication also includes information on The Voynich Manuscript and Praesidia Finium or Frontier Garrison¸ as well as a bibliography and introduction detailing the university librarys history¸ and how it came to obtain these volumes through the years.