Liber-Damnatus

A magical grimoire. Yog-Sothoth told Joseph Curwen that Psalm III in the Liber-Damnatus holds the clavicle (key) to a certain spell. This spell causes a Thing to breed in the Outside Spheres, which will eventually influence a descendant of the sorcerer to revive the sorcerer from his essential saltes. [HPL Case (online text)]

Per Google Translate, the title Liber-Damnatus means "The Condemned Book." The translation sounds more like a nickname than the literal title, since books are rarely condemned until after they are published! If the title instead meant "Book of the Condemned," the Latin would apparently be Liber Damnatorum rather than Damnatus.

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