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The tome '''Liber Damnatus Damnationum''' (AKA "Liber Damnatus", "Book of the Damned", "Book of Damnation", "Damnation's Book", et.al) is statted out in the ''[[Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook]]'', and originates in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)]]", with details added in [[Richard L. Tierney]]'s "[[House of the Toad (fiction)]]", and [[Colin Wilson]]'s "[[The Barrens (fiction)]]".

==Description==
Liber Damnatus Damnationum is a text written by Janus Aquaticus in Latin, first published in London in 1647. The book contains information on the "Great Dying" (the end of the age of man, when the Great Old Ones return to enact their will unopposed upon the earth, raising up their worshipers to join them in madness forever), formulae for the contact of Yog-Sothoth and for immortality, and information on locations where the barriers between dimensions are thin during the equinox.

[[Orne Library|Miskatonic University]] has possessed at least one handwritten Latin copy of this book, one reportedly stolen from the university, another (the same one?) seems to have been obtained or retrieved from the private library of Joseph Curwen. Much of this book seems to have been shamelessly plagiarized in Janus Cornelius Wasserman's ''[[The Occult Foundation]]''.

* author: Janus Aquaticus
* date: 1647
* language: Latin
* number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
* last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
* study: 34 weeks
* sanity loss: moderate
* mythos lore: moderate
* occult lore: minor
* spells: ?

==Associated Mythos Elements==


==Heresies and Controversies==

* Janus Cornelius Wasserman is reputed to be a ''nom-de-plume'' for the undying author of the original tome, Janus Aquaticus, who rewrote the original tome from memory after his supposed death in the 17th century. (YSDC)

==Appearances==
* fiction: [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s "[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (fiction)]]", "[[House of the Toad (fiction)]]" [[Richard L. Tierney]], "[[The Barrens (fiction)]]" [[Colin Wilson]]
* sourcebook: ''[[Call of Cthulhu 7th Edition Rulebook]]''

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-Alleged to be a blatant plagiarism in English of ''Liber Damnatus Damnationum'', presumed in some wild rumors to have be that tome rewritten by the very same author.  See [[Liber Damnatus Damnationum|the page for that tome]] for more detail.
+Alleged to be a blatant plagiarism in English of ''Liber Damnatus Damnationum'', presumed in some wild rumors to have be that tome rewritten by the very same author.  See [[The Occult Foundation|the page for that tome]] for more detail.
 ==Associated Mythos Elements==

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+===The Occult Foundation===
 Alleged to be a blatant plagiarism in English of ''Liber Damnatus Damnationum'', presumed in some wild rumors to have be that tome rewritten by the very same author.  See [[Liber Damnatus Damnationum|the page for that tome]] for more detail.

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 [[Orne Library|Miskatonic University]] has possessed at least one handwritten Latin copy of this book, one reportedly stolen from the university, another (the same one?) seems to have been obtained or retrieved from the private library of Joseph Curwen. Much of this book seems to have been shamelessly plagiarized in Janus Cornelius Wasserman's ''[[The Occult Foundation]]''.
 * author: Janus Aquaticus
 * date: 1647
-* language: Latin
+* language: English
 * number of known copies (if rare): (unknown, presumably rare)
 * last known location of surviving copies (if rare): (unknown)
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 * occult lore: minor
 * spells:  ?
 ==Associated Mythos Elements==