Lists of manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee, 1921

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TS OF MANUSCRIPTS FORMERLY OWNED BY

DR.

JOHN DEE

WITH PREFACE AND IDENTIFICATIONS BY

M.

R.

JAMES,

LITT.D., F.B.A., F.S.A,

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LISTS OF MANUSCRIPTS FORMERLY OWNED BY

JOHN DEE

DR.

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WITH PREFACE AND IDENTIFICATIONS BY V

M.

R.

JAMES,

LITT.D., F.B.A., F.S.A.

PROVOST OF ETON SOMETIME PROVOST OF KING'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

PRINTED AT THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS FOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY 1921

PREFACE a

IN 1842 J. O. Halliwell edited for the Camden Society volume entitled The Diary of Dr. John Dee. To the diary

which extends with considerable gaps over the years (1554) 1577 to 1 60 1, he appended the catalogue of Dee's manuscript library, taken from an autograph MS. in the Gale This Collection at Trinity College, Cambridge (O. 4. 20). it is furnish what to to and my purpose reprint here, catalogue information I can about the books entered in it.

Bibliographers will readily agree that this is worth doing.

They will remember that Dee was not merely an alchemist and spiritualist, but a really learned man, and one who had done his itself,

best,

by

petitions

and otherwise, to stimulate

interest in the

rescuing of MSS. from the dissolved monastic libraries and to induce the sovereign to establish a central national collection of them. They will also be aware that we have but very few sixteenth-century English catalogues of manuscript collections, and that the investigation of the destinies of a dispersed library may be made to throw much light upon the formation of the collections which still exist.

It will be as well, before we embark upon the examination of the catalogue, to have before us the leading dates in the life of the owner of the books. John Dee was born in 1527. When the Diary begins, we find him living at Mortlake. In 1583 (on September 21) he left England, with the impostor Edward Kelly, for Bohemia and Poland, whence, after a most unsuccessful and detrimental sojourn, he returned to Mortlake in December 1589.

In 1595 he was made Warden of Manchester College (now the in 1604 he came back to Mortlake and in 1608 cathedral) he died there in poverty. :

;

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

4

Our

catalogue was made on September 6, 1583, just a fortbefore he started for the Continent.

As soon as he was night a his house raid was made off, fairly upon by the less respectable residents in Mortlake (among the better sort he seems to

have been popular and well-liked), his books were, to some extent, dispersed, and valuable scientific instruments broken or his return six years later he was able to recover, it stolen.

On

three-fourths of the books, but the apparatus was gone for ever.

The cause of the raid was no doubt Dee's dealings is said,

with

spirits,

which not unnaturally earned for him the reputa-

tion of being a sorcerer.

1

The catalogue of 1583, then, cannot be regarded as a full record of the manuscripts which Dee possessed at the time of Some volumes

his death.

will

be entered in

it

which were

lost

or destroyed soon after it was made, and, on the other hand, during the twenty-five years that elapsed between its making

and Dee's death, it is not to be supposed that he did not make additions to his collection.

There are, in fact, volumes in exisThe marginal notes writlen by Dee in the MS. of this catalogue at Trinity One such, which occurs only College relate in some cases to this spoliation. once in the list of MSS., but very often indeed in that of the printed books, is There are variants of this e.g. on f. 3 of the MS. apropos J. Davis spoyle '. of a work of Cusanus, ' Jo. Davis toke (w th others) by violence out of my howse after my going ', followed by the sentence, through which Dee has drawn a line, He hath got the Mathematicall part of Cusan.' Again, Jo. Davis sent me one volume home, the other lacketh.'

Jo. Davis spoyle he hath not yet restored, as may appere by his letters.' Other like notes are Mr. Jak restored ', Widdow Gardiner (or Gardiner's Widdow) restored '.

In Oct. 1579 Davis, Gardiner, and Jak are all mentioned in the Diary, Davis figures as one of the persons who are continually being reconciled to Dee : in Feb. 1583 he is one of a group who confer with Walsingham about the North- West Passage, and in March he goes off to Devonshire.

Robert Gardiner in May 1582 has revelations vouchsafed to him about the In May philosopher's stone, and seems to have been in Dee's employment.

1 590 Thomas Jack restores to Dee part of his magnes stone ', and in July sends him back a hammer.

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Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

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tence which contain his name, with dates of acquisition long

subsequent to 1583.

He may have parted with some of his treasures under stress of his poverty during the years immediately preceding his death but the fact is not of great imporbiographers say that he did It is of more interest to tance as regards our investigation. learn what happened to the library when he was gone.

Upon :

:

this

thrown

some

Ussher's

by Archbishop corresponlight is Sir Henry Bourgchier, writing to Ussher in 1624 which (sixteen years after Dee's death), speaks of* Dee's library, ' and by that means unsold (Works, hath been litigious, dence.

long

In another letter (March 23, 1624-5) he savs x| 227). * Vettius Valens in Greek is Mr. Selden's now, but was sometimes Dr. Dee's, but the rest of his books will be had very In October 1626 as many as are worth the having '. shortly,

Dr. Bainbridge, Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, writes to * I am bold to enter your grace's bibliolheca the Archbishop with the humble request that I may have the names of such He adds that he had seen mathematical books as were Dee's.' in London a list of bare tides of Dee's books, and had been to Sir Robert Cotton, but his books were not yet ordered in :

a catalogue.

From

these passages

I

gather that litigation (con-

had prevented the dispersion sequent most likely on Dee's debts) of the library until 1625 (probably February i62|), and that, when it was finally sold, Ussher and Cotton had made considerable

purchases.

We

Selden,

we

see,

also

bought

at least

Dee

books, too, in the collections of died before Dee) : Digby, Ashmole, Savile (Sir Henry, who but there is a yet more important purchaser. The number of volumes from this source which have made their way to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, cannot fail to arrest attention : it constitutes by far the largest portion of Dee's library that is to be

one book.

found

in

Now

any one a

find

place. exists (C.C.C.,

document

Oxford,

MS.

280,

p.

235)

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

6

which shows that a number of Dee's MSS. were offered for sale to the College by Brian Twyne, the famous Oxford antiThe purchase was quary, who was a Fellow of the society. the but books were declined, ultimately bequeathed by Twyne to the College.

Twyne's

1

special reason for

buying the books

I

can only con-

but

jecture ; my conjecture takes this form. John Twyne, his grandfather, schoolmaster, mayor, and antiquarian, of Canterbury, had procured a good many MSS. from the dissolved library of St.

Augustine's Abbey there, and these had afterwards come Brian Twyne knew this, and desired to

into Dee's hands

:

Certain recover and keep together his grandfather's collections. it is that of the books are Christi Dee-Twyne-Corpus many 2

Augustine's, less certain that they were owned by John Twyne. Brian Twyne, by the way, did not succeed in the securing all the St. Augustine's MSS. that Dee owned most important one, the catalogue of the Abbey library, went

from

St.

:

to Ussher, 1

and

is

The documents

now

Dublin.

at

are as follows

This

is all

that

I

can learn

:

An

acknowledgment of 1 5 due to John White, bookseller in Little Britain, for MSS. bought by B. Twyne for the use of the President and Scholars of C. C. College in Oxon. to be paid before 14 March.

Dated 22 Feb. 1625 signed Th. Amyan, President.

A similar acknowledgment by the same of 3 6s. due to (Z>) Dated 23 Feb. 1625.

J. White.

I made a generall catalogue of these bookes (c) Notes by Twyne, viz. at London, & when they were brought downe to y e Coll: y e company would (a)

:

'

:

not consent that any money shuld be layd out for them.

Br. Twyne.

They were returned vppon y e President.

They were parcell of Dr. Dees bookes & some of them very rare & all e e worthy of y buyinge for y Coll: Library, if they had byn more.'

2 Several entries, to which I can as yet find no corresponding extant MS., answer to entries in the St. Augustine's Catalogue, viz. Nos. 20, (59), 68, Of the extant MSS. sixteen can be traced 107, 120, (138), 159, 171, (173). :

to St. Augustine's.

Similarly one or two books may have come from the Austin Friars at (see the catalogue in fasciculus J. W. Clark dicaius), viz. Nos. 72, 75.

York

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MSS. immediately

after

or guess as to the destinies of Dee's

We

volumes making their way into the libraries of Pepys, Gale, Harley, and Sloane (one at Lambeth must have been bought by Bancroft before Dee's I have found but one for certain in a death). foreign library, and that belonged to Kenelm Digby. Two others, doubtful, their dispersion.

are

among Queen

There

find stray

Christina's

MSS.

in the Vatican.

more, however, to be said about the growth of the collection. have two lists of Dee's MSS. earlier than 1583.

One (List A) is in a small notebook of his at Corpus Christi This book contains College, Oxford (MS. 191). is

We

:

MSS. owned by Dee in 1556. of MSS. borrowed by him from

1.

List of

2.

List

Peterhouse,

bridge, to be returned in 1558.'

Contents of a MS. borrowed from Dr. Hathar.

3.

4. Contents of a MS. borrowed from Queen's

Cam-

College,

Oxford.

List of MSS. bought by him from John Leland's library in 1556, and from other sources.

This last item Alchemical books read by him in 1556. our does not concern present investigation.

5.

6.

The

other (List B)

is

contained in the British

Museum MS.

Add. 35213 (formerly Phillipps 10701), to which Mr. J. P. Gilson and Mr. J. A. Herbert kindly directed my attention.

volume from which Mr. Gilson printed the very of Long Harry Savile of interesting catalogue of the MSS. It

the

is

1 Of the books (six in number) borrowed in 1556, five are still to be found in the catalogue of 1583. But we must not be hasty in accusing Dee One of the borrowed MSS. (now Ashmole 424) ha<= a note of dishonesty. in Dee's hand to the effect that it was presented to him by Peterhouse in 1564 in exchange for a gift of printed books. Dee parted with it before his death in 1606 a 'Dominus Hypsley gave or sold it to P(atrick) Saunders.

These same names occur in another of the books, Ashmole 1471, also with '

:

the date 1606.

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

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On ff. 1-4 it contains a roughly-written (d. 1617).' of Dee's books, written and printed, in his autograph, the MSS. being entered on ff. 3 b and 4. This list cannot be far removed from A in date, but it is not clear to me whether it is a little the earlier or a little the later of the two.

List A is, in of since it shows the sources whence case, any greater importance, some of Dee's MSS. came.

Banke

list

My

chief object in this investigation

remains of Dee's manuscript library.

is

to identify the extant this in view I have

With

examined a great many collections at London, Oxford, Camand not without bridge, and elsewhere, as occasion offered :

success.

22

MSS.

Halliwell gave identifications (not always correct) of mine, certain and doubtful, number over 120. The

:

Sometimes we have Dee's signabut often we have to depend on subsidiary marks : or autograph notes are not uncommon ; other books bear a the astrological sign of Jupiter thrice repeated ^/^> or a mark

means of

identification vary.

ture in full

;

A

small ladder.

Sometimes names of owners, like P. Saunders, whom we know to have been Dee's associates, combine with the contents of a MS. to ensure an identification. like, a

Often the contents of the MS. are the only guide. The list itself will afford the reader the means of judging of the weight of the evidence in each case.

I have collated Halliwell's text of O. 4. 20 with the MS. without finding any important differences.

One feature, it is I and cannot wholly extrue, Halliwell has omitted to notice, With the of MSS. few exceptions entries plain. up to no. 67 have a T prefixed to them. The others have in most cases the letters Fr. These same letters, T and Fr., are prefixed to the entries of printed books, which of course fill the greatest part of the MS. For Fr. I can suggest an interpretation. At the very beginning of the volume is this note in Dee's hand, minutely written and somewhat injured :

1

Trans. Bibliogr. Soc. vol.

ix.

1907.

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

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Andreas Fremonshemius Birkmannorum Coloiniensium in exscnAnglicos(P) Distractor Librorum siue Bibliopola libros considerans. psit Mortlacii ipsos omnes . . singulos The Fr. then may indicate Fremonshemius, the agent of the Birkmanns, who perhaps contemplated buying the library, but cannot ultimately have done so.

Who was I cannot now guess not Twyne, at any rate.

Happily the letters seem to have no value as indicating the present whereabouts of the books.

There is a second MS. of the catalogue of 1583, viz. Harley it is in the same hand as the Gale MS., but does not 1879 contain the letters and Fr., nor any marginal notes by Dee. b It has, however, prefixed to the catalogue on f. 1 9 of the whole volume (which contains several catalogues) a note in Dee's hand (I think) which is not without interest, though it does not bear directly on our subject * In the Book of St. Aug ten of Canterbury . being a large Foil.

Book in an old red cover containing 385 leaves.

The beginning of the book is in a latter hand then most of the book and is an Exemplification and Confirmation of all the charters of the Kings proinde (?) to Ed. the sonn of Edward mad in the time Radulphi Abbatis.

In the first leaf of the old hand, after the former Exemplification, and vnder the charter of King Aethelbert and priueledg I

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T

:

T

:

of

ten

anglorum apostoli, there is wrytten thes words rud secretary hand Liber Johannis Twyne de grayes Ine ex dono patris sui St.

Aug

following in a

Teste Humfrido Jurdano Rectore Johannis Twyne ecclesie de Sturmowthe. per me John Twyne The sam is wrytten in pag. of the sam book 212 over a deed of 3 roods and a half of land in Newland This book is now in the hands of on Mr. Wilford of Kent an[d] old gentellman being in fette(r) layn a recusant.'

The book here described is doubtless the Cotton Claud. D. x.

MS.

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

to

We

more of it

in Clark (Wood's Life and Times, iv. 91, Brian Twyne (xvi. 407) cites: Thomas de Thanet (vixit 1272) Matricula scil. de variis chartis libertatibus ac privilegiis et possessionibus monasterii S. Aug. Cant.

Init.

In nomine domini J. C. notum sit omnibus tarn praesentibus quam posteris quod ego Adhelbertus. It was given by John Twyne of Canterbury (but query of Gray's Inn : see above) to Thomas Smyth high-customer of London, and was afterwards in the hands of Richard James of C.C.C. Oxford a thick 4to with a red cover.

The notes have some interest as recording the fact that John Twyne owned yet another St. Augustine's book.

Of the general character of the collection a few words must be said.

It is in the main a special one, got together to assist Dee in his peculiar studies. Had it survived intact it would have been a first-class repository of mediaeval science books excluding medicine.

Alchemy, astrology, astronomy, physics,

find

Oxf. Hist.

Soc.*).

:

geometry,

optics,

mathematics are

all

very copiously repre-

and Dee appears to have given special attention to collecting the works of two great writers, Roger Bacon and Raymund Lull. There is very little theology, and no ancient poetry. Among the classical MSS., one containing the versions of Plato's Phaedo and Meno, which was made in Sicily for Frederick IV see Val. Rose's articles on it in Hermes, vol. i is of interest. special History, British and English, is perhaps sented

;

the subject best represented occurs.

next to Natural Science.

One

Welsh MS.

Few of the MSS. which can be identified

are very old. Perhaps

the Lauderdale Orosius, now at Helmingham, which is not in the The Priscianus Lydus (A. 1 5), Isidore catalogue.

(94), Boethius (i 14), Aethicus (9,80) are of respectable antiquity. the oldest

I

own

is

have not attempted to writing.

collect here notices

of MSS. of Dee's

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

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I

A

LIST MS.

C. C. C. Oxford,

191.

Dee.

Libri antiqui script! quos habeo anno 1556. $i. J. 1. Anthologia Aristoxeni Musica Vectii. Valentis Alypii Musica Cleomedes de Mundo Tractatus de astrolabio Hipparchus in Aratum et Eudoxum.

Grece compact!.

C. 43.

2. De musica libri varii Albion Canones Jo is de Perspectiua Baconis |

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4.

=

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C. 72.

Prophatius Judeus de quadrante cum aliis libris.

Magnum opus 20 variorum authorum in chymicis.

Ars Sintrillia Ars Notaria Problemata varia Geberi scientiae partilordanus de planisphaerio culares in Philosophia Lyneriis

3.

=

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cum 5.

6.

aliis

astrologicis fragment!?.

lordanus de ponderibus. lordanus de ponderibus Euclidis perspectiua Fragmentum Euclidis de leui et ponderoso (graui B) De maxima capacitate circuli et sphaerae ( + sec. ess. Isopi B).

C. 32.

Philotechne Jordani s. de triangulis.

Geometria practica breuis De leui et ponderoso opusculum elegans Arati filii Joseph (Jos. B.) de proportione et proportionato (proper Specularia Euclidis

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7.

8.

=

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tionalitate B).

9.

Sphaerica Theodosii

I

Data Euclidis

Archimedis

circuli

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10. Perspectiua communis Alhacen (Cro..

11. Arismetica Boetii cum aliis opusculis

=

B).

dimensio.

C. 98.

C. 83 or 102.

=

Thebith super AlmaTheodosius de locis habitabilibus (B. Liber demonstratus. om. A) Chiromantia Gallice De interpretationibus somniorum Physionomia Thome de Aquino Chiromantia Petri de

gestum Ptolemaei

eiusdem

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cum

Abano

=.137.

aliis variis libris.

=

C. 44.

Antiquus scriptor de speculis quoquo modo comburentibus.

13. Tractatulus de auro potabili.

C. 172.

14. Solinus de mirabilibus mundi.

15. Prisciani fragmentum de hiis de quibus dubitauit Cosroe rex persarum [not in C. Brit. Mus. Vesp. A II].

C. iSi? 1 6. Thome Bravardini de proportione fragmentum.

17. Bachon de graduatione rerum compositarum, seu linea intensionis ac 12.

=

=

cum expositione. fabricae materialis speculi comburentis (combustibilis

remissionis 1

8.

Modus

aliis (et aliis

B)

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De

signis implentibus

locum |

De

= C.

19.

B) cum

.Magnete (om. B.)

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

12

19.

20.

Summa

21.5-

=

naturalium Alberti Magni.

C. 55

Perspectiua Alhacen.

Cf. C. 65, 83, 102, in.

C. i.

23. Sphaerica Milei compacti.

24. Porphyrii fragmentum graece in quadripartitum Ptolemaei.

De multiplicatione specierum Bacon.

C. 41.

25. Perspectiua Bachonis 26. Perspectiua Alhacen 4 m exemplar AlfraAlpetragius de 'omocentricis

22.

=

=

|

= C. 86. = C. 27.

j

|

ganus.

magnum opus communium naturalium.

Commentum in Martianum Capellam.

27. Bachonis 28.

= C.

29. Franciscus Cataneus in Aristotelem de Caelo (Cat.

116?.

B) compact.

=

C. 93.

30. Tractatulus Linconiensis de Iride Fragmentum Jordani de ponderibus Euclidis optica. Specularia Algorismus demonstrate lordanus de |

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triangulis

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Theodosii Sphaerica AMraganus. quaedam Jo. de Lineriis cum aliis. |

31. Obseruationes $ii.

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Reddenda anno 1558

festo

in

= C. = C.

Michaelis.

186?

138

?

Antiqua

exemplaria quos habui a Coll.

S.

32. (i) Arithmetica Jordani danum ut creditur.

(16) Algorismus demonstratus per JorC. 91.

.

.

.

Petri Cantabrigiae

15566

33. Vitellionis perspectiua elegantissime scriptum. de acre aqua et regionibus.

34. Albertus de universalibus lib. 5 .

35. Expositio theoricarum

.

.

.

.

tract,

.

proportionum Bradwardini.

= = = =

Mali.

C. 97.

C. 24.

C. 37.

Recepi a doctore Hathar eodem tempore reddenda in 1556 (? 1558) ea quae sequuntur ut catalogus enumerat. prefixus iii.

festo Michaelis

Quae36. Euclidis lib. 4 cum expositione Campani J Perspectiua Pecham Moralizatio Visus secundum stiones bonae super perspectiuam |

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Introductio Canones ad Almanak perpetuum or 4 Capitula Albionis etc.

Sphaera Pithagorica Judei non prius visa Flores Albumazar Will. Anglicus de Ptolemaeus de 9 stellis caudatis Quaestiones super tractatum de sphaera loh. de Sacrobosco de sphaera Theoricae Planetarum or libros Meteorwn QuaeCampani Quaestiones nouae super 4 stiones breues super Autorem de causis Expositio super sphaeram Kalendarium Planetarum Quatuor iudicia data Summa Astrologiae De dispositione aeui quoad plurima Exafranon de abbreuiata

Bakon

Allkabitii

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Profacii

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pronosticacione temporis Bakon de commendatione utilitatis astronomiae Tabula Ptolemaei docens naturas 7 planetarum Tabula Mag. Willelmi Rede Canones ad Kalendarium Planetarum. |

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iv. Libri quos habeo in uno volumine in Collegio Reginali ro ro Morreno et Oxoniae anno 1556 18 Maii Carie mecum r Et Knipe eiusdem collegii socius nobis praesentibus. tradidit, ita quod dicti magistri et episcopus Lond: pro eiusdem voluminis redditione onus omne in se susciperent.

M

M

37. Arithmetica $

Ex

v.

sequentes

cum commento

.

.

.

M

Laelandi emi pro 1556.18 Maii Londinii.

bibliotheca

libros

= C.

Vitelionis libri 4 or primi.

30

109.

hos

solidis

Mineralium Alberti lib: 5 Rob. de Kilwardby de ortu scientiarum Tract, de relationibus.

Tract, de tempore Aphorismi Ursonis cum aliis.

39. Urso de commixtione elementorum

38.

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= C. 3 = C. 89 = C. 99.

.

Summa

is

Anglicana Jo Eschuyden.

41. Haly haben ragel de Judiciis.

Practica geometric 42. Messa halah de astrolabio 40.

.

.

.

cum

aliis variis

medicina.

[In paler 43. I

= C.

in

157.

ink~\

borowed one volume of master bruern written in parchment in 4* two ynches thik in which are many and good bokes and Jordan de datis numeris and Gerardus Brussellensis de motu which I never saw = C. 13 ? elsewhere and mr bruarn's name is written on the back.

44. [on next page]

Bachon summa ad Clementem cum I

bought 45. [on next page]

Duo magna volumina

=

astrologica in lingua hebraea scripta

Salomonis in carmine Teutonico in the book Jvi. [Later

perlegi

aliis

at Sarrisbury (?).

a

is

anno 1556 a mense

[// occupies nearly

4.

pages

|

Alchimia

=

De

pleno et vacuo.

of]

Authores alchymici quos

C. 62.

Julii.

:

the scripti libri occupy about

beginning]

O

venerande pater Averroes super .

list

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C. 26.

.

.

2 f pp.,

1

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4

II

LIST B Mus. Add. 35213,

(Brit.

f 3 b col. .

ii.)

Libri scripti.

3.

Perspectiva alacen arabis compactus.

Perspectiuae alacen aliud exemplar.

Perspectiuae alacen 3 exemplar Alpetragius

4.

Perspectiua Bacon

1.

2.

|

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Bacon de

= A. Alfraganus.

|

communium

Baconis

7.

Commentarius

8.

Franciscus Cataneus in Aristotelem de Cat. compact.

=A.

9.

4

[f.

col. i,

,

= A.

29. Jo.

4, col. 2]

Secundi

1-19. globi caelestis

fasciculi.

= A. = A.

28.

29.

Libri Scripti.

ad Edwardum 6 m Anglie Regem.

24.

Bachon de speculis comburentibus. a Fragmen turn de Albion Thebith de 8 sphaera

31.

32.

aliis.

has printed books.\

Dee de usu

= A.

30.

Marcianum Capellam de astronomicis cum

30.

b

[f.

10-28

opus

26.

= A. 25. = A. 23. = A. 27.

naturalium compact.

6.

in

22.

multiplicatione specierum. compacti.

5. Sphaerica Milei compact.

magnum

20 or 21.

= A. = A.

|

is

Jo

de Lyneriis ad

fixas et planetas

Obseruationes

quedam

= A.

|

&

31.

Ill

LIST C Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae Externae Mortlacensis D. Dee A 1583 6 Sept.

loh.

Libri Manuscript!

T.

i.

Milei sphaericorum tractatus

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BodL MS. Digby

I'jS,/.

tres.

1 1 2.

4

perg.

= A.

Part of the same volume

23 B.

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5.

C. 29.]

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee T.

2.

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Theoricae planetarum lordani de triangulis, ubi de quadratura Eiusdem de perspectiva Eiusdem de speculis, crepusculis, circuit 4 scripti perg. ponderibus, speculis comburentibus lib. ii.

Compendium de vitis philosophorum anonymi Ursonis (' in Cotton Eiusdem aphorismi. addeif) de commixtionibus elementorum |

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Bought

Leland's Library..]

Avicenna de anima mundi cum est

perg.

Dominicans of London.

the

aliis,

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Expositorius Rogeri Morienus ad regem Calid Ra-

Liber de ponderibus quinque de decem (marg. 70 :) Rosinus ad Euthesiam Dicta sapientis

Bachonis

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Hermetis

libri

septem Turba philosophorum Epistola Alexandri regis Persa:

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videlicet

Inspector praecedentis libri Avicennae

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Distinctionum sapientium liber rum Aristoteles de 30 verbis Socratis liber Effrey Effinensis liber Liber Calid Liber commentatus Opus philosophorum |

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4 perg.

[Glasgow Hunter MS. U. 4. 1 1 From St. Augustine's, Canterbury (no.

1544 in catalogue). lo. Dee 1556.] .

T.

5.

loh.

Duns

Scoti quaestiones in Porphyrii quinque voces Antonii in categorias sex etc.

Rogerii Bachonis de |

cuiusdam expositio

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Eiusdem perspectiva.

4 perg. multiplicatione specierum MS. Savile 18 (paper and vellum, of cent, xv, in original Ii contains the names of George and Richard Eden, Edw. binding). |

[Perhaps Bodl.

T.

6.

Gascoyne, and KnyvettJ\ 4 perg.

Aquinatis quaestionum disputalarum volumen.

[C.C.C. Oxford 225. From the Grey Friars of Cambridge. lo.

T.

7.

Scintillarium

Thomae

Dee 1561 Bostoniae. poetarum

Old press-mark

a. i.

Ladder~mark^\ chiromantiae Ovidii metamorphoValerius ad Ruffinum de non Tract, de veneno seos expositio ducenda uxore, cum expositione loh. Wyclyf determinatio Literae fratris Willelmi Fleth Fulgentii mythologiae cum exposiTract, de difficilibus dictionibus Bibliae Rob. Lincoltione niensis in oculo morali Rob. Lincoln, de ratione veneni loh.

Walensis breviloquium philosophorum descriptum per Stoctonem Cantabrigiae 1375] Casus abstracti in jure per Fratrem Hermannum de provincia Saxoniae Casus episcopo reservati Expositio sa^ata-

Summa

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tionis angelicae.

[Dublin Trin. Coll.

bridge,

T.

8.

De

lo.

4 115.

Probably from

the

perg.

Grey Friars, Cam-

Dee 1561 Bostoniael\

ponderibus

stantini

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mensuris medicinalis operationis libri 7 (marg. excusi) De

Africani

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Con-

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modo medendi

1

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experimenta

9.

T.

10.

T.

1 1

De

morborum

origine

eorum cognitione per

et

electuariis etc.

4 perg.

From Christ Church, Canterbury (no. 452).

[C.C.C. Oxford 189.

Owned by lo. Holyngborne (monk of Ch. Ch. in cent. xvxvi).\ Ethici Histri cosmographia ex versione Latina D. Hieronymi.

4 perg.

One I had with me, and one I left here, which is noted after (no. 80).

Johannes Dee 1565 Februarii 21 [Brit. Mus. Vesp. B. x.

Wigorniae ex dono decani ecclesiae magistri Peddar] Anonymi Anticlaudianus carmine Hugonis de Pushac Dunelmensis Episcopi Brutus, carmine longa forma, perg. lo. Dee 1574 Man 7 bowght vppon a stall \Brit. Mus. Vesp. A. x. |

T.

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urinam

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London]

Tract, compendiosus de animalibus.

[Possibly C.C.C. Oxford 245, Alexander

Neckam.

4 perg.

It has the

ladder-mark,]

T. 12. Wilhelmi Parisiensis fragment, de universis.

4 perg.

[C.C.C. Oxford 130. From St. Augustine's, Canterbury (not in the

T.

Title written in Dee's hand.] catalogue).

13. Euclidis Elementa Geometrica, Optica, et Catoptrica ex arabico translata per Adellardum Theodosii sphaericorum libri Liber de |

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lordani planisphaerium Ptolemaei planisphaerium Archimedis tract, de quadrature circuli Gerardi de Brussel liber de motu lordanus de ponderibus Libri quatuor geometriae Wilhelmi de Conchis philoAlfarabius de scientiis practicae Anatomia hominis De sophia Rasis liber de phisiognomia cum aliis. 4 perg.

A. 43 proprietatibus elementorum occultis

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prete loh. Hispaniensi cent. xii. ff. 209.

The items common to the two lists are striking and the discrepancies I believe this not beyond what may be paralleled in this catalogue.

MS. to be the one which Dee borrowed of Bruarn the Oxford professor of Hebrew and momentary Provost of Eton. But

Phillipps

if so, the latter part of it detached since Dees time]

William of Conches,

etc.

must have been

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T. 14. Augustinus de anima et spiritu Theoremata de spiritu et anima demonstrata Algorithmic demonstrates loh. de Sacrobosco loh. de Rupella summa de anima Rob. Lincoln, tract, de sphaera loh. de Sacrobosco tract, de sphaera Tract, de proportione et proportionalitate Rogeri Bachonis cum aliis. perg. 4 |

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\C.C.C. Oxford 41. From St. Augustine's, Canterbury (no. 374 John of London)] T. 15. Maximi Monachi, Dionisii Areopagitae, Sophronii Solitarii, et aliorum Graecorum fragmenta nonnulla. perg. 4 Fr. 1 6. Ramundi Lullii liber de quinta essentia. pap. f Non est Ramundi Lullii, sed collectanea diversa ex Paracelso.

Eiusdem liber de 17. Rogerii Bachonis de anima et eius operibus J

T.

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intellectu et intelligibili.

8. A. de Villa Nova Apologia

fo.

perg.

de versutiis atque perversitatibus pseudotheologorum et religiosorum loachim Abbatis prophetia contra Arnoldi de Villa Nova religiones tenentes ordinem mendicantium opus de generibus abusionum veritatis, et de pseudo-ministris Antichristi cognoscendis, et de pastorali officio circa gregem exercendo Eiusdem prophetia catholica, tradens artem annihilandi versutias Antichristi et omnium membrorum eius, ad sacrum |

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Romanorum.

collegium

T.

19.

perg. fo.

Rogeri Bachonis de retardatione senectutis et senii etc. [marg.

Eiusdem de graduatione medicinarum compositarum excusus] |

perg. f

etc.

[Art. z

next

B.

26) (cf. A. 17, to a work of Dee's.

is

in C.C.C.

There

is

Oxford 254, where

no mark.

comes Other possibilities are it

Selden supra 94 and Chetham Library {Manchester} A. 5. 24 (11366), which latter I am informed has no mark of ownership] T. 20. Eiusdem Bachonis metaphisica Eiusdem oeconomica.

P er g- 4 [Cf. Si. Aug. Cant. Catalogue, no. 1071.]

T. 21. Eiusdem (marg. dubito) de animalibus fragmentum. perg. f T. 22. Eiusdem Bachonis fragmenta quaedam videlicet de multiplicatione Item communia naturalia Epistola ad et corruptione specierum Clementem per R. de utilitate scientiarum artis experimentalis etc. |

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manuscriptus liber ab ipso A) [i.e. written by Dee himself] Rogeri Bachonis pars sexta Operis niajoris quae est Scientia ExperiEiusdem Operis mentalis ad Clementem Pontif: Romanorum Majoris pars septima quae est Philosophia Moralis Eiusd.

Alchimiae tract, expositorius ad Clementem P.M.R. Eiusd. compendium Alchimiae Avicennae clavis sapientiae seu porta minor seu tract, de anima Breviloquium Holcot | Rogerii

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Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee Bachonis speculum Alchimiae Quaestiones super librum lordani de ponderibus Compendium artis, Raymundi Lullii ExRogeri Bachonis tract, de cerpta ex theorica Ramundi Lullii |

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pap. f

speciebus.

\Cf. Dublin Trin. Coll 381.]

T. 24. Alberti Magni de mineral ibus libri quinque

Rhithmomachia

operie

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lapidum ac

gemmarum

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Hermetis quadripartitum Ars fusoria et tinctoria de lapidibus et sigillis

De lapide bezaar

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eorundem

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herbis |

De potentiis duodecim signorum

et

septem planetarum

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in Cotton ') Palemone (above Albertus de plantationibus arborum et de conservatione vini Liber Kirimandarum Virtutes septem herbarum Aristotelis

gnomia ex Loxio

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excusus misere. est mihi MS.) Philonis fragmentum de aquaeduclibus Quaestiones quaedam naturales Constantinus Medicus de coitu Practica puerorum De natura puerorum) Introductiones astronomicae Hyppocrates de pharmacis Hyppocrates de secretis Hippocratis lex Hippocrates de humana natura Hippocrates de acre aqua et regionibus.

A. 34. perg. 40 \Bodl. Ashmole 1471. Formerly at Peterhouse, Cambridge: borrowed (rnarg.

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T. 25. Eulogium temporis a condito orbe in annum Christi 1367 monachi cuiusdam Niniani. perg. f loh. Dee 1574 Sept. 25 of the gift of [Brit. Mus. Galba E. vii.

Mr. Dickenson at Popular by London in 155 ..]

T. 26. Rogerii Bachonis summa seu opus tertium ad Clementem P.M. Eiusdem Bachonis majoris operis pars quarta in qua ostenditur potestas mathematicae in scientiis atque rebus mundi huius |

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Eiusdem compendium studii theologici Liber praeceptorum secundum Albertum Liber de sigillis solis in signis secundum |

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Hermetem

Albertus de Arnoldus de Villa

tibus |

sigillo

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Nova de

pap. f

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et

annulo leonis

et

eius virtu-

duodecim signorum.

A. 44 (7 bowght at sarrisbury sigillis

(/>)).

Tiberius C. v.

Bryan Twyne mentions this MS. in MS. ' Notandum quod inter libros Doctoris Arch. Selden supra 79, p. 90.

\Brit.

Mus.

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lohannis Dee manuscriptos extitit opus minus Rogeri Bacon in cuius fine habetur liber Hermetis de sigillis solis in signis.

Et in fine illius, Tractatus Alberti commentatoris de sigillo et anulo Leonis et eius virtutibus qui sic incipit Ego Albertus commentator in

omni

experientia expertus etc.']

T. 27. Rogerii Bachonis communium naturalium libri duo, quatuor sectioniIn bordes with clasps. bus distincti.

A. 27, B. 6 perg. fr. lo. Dee, Kenelm Digby.~\ [Paris. Bill. Mazarine 1271.

T. 28. Alpetraugii de verificatione motuum coelestium liber Thebith de

= |

his

quae

antequam legatur Almagestum Liber florum Albumasar Liber experimentorum

indigent

Ptolomaei |

Albumasar

expositione

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Liber practicorum geometriae lacobi Alkindi liber de aspectibus Petri de Dacia commentum super tractatum loh. de Sacrobosco super tract, de sphaera Eiusd. algorismi computus ecclesiasticus Wilhelmus de Aragonia in Ptolomaei centiloquium Ars algorismi de fractionibus Scripta utilia super compotum manualem loh. de Sicilia in canones Arzachelis de tabulis Toletanis Quaestiones mathematicales. perg. f |

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T.

i.

John of London).

29. Richardi

From lo.

St. Augustine's, Canterbury, no. 1147.

Dee 1557.]

Walyngforde Abbatis

S.

Albani de

scientiis

demonstrandis perg. f

libri iv.

[Bodl.

MS. Digby

178, art. 7-10.]

T. 30. lohannis Massoni monachi epistolae Epistolae de somnio Pharaonis, Alani Enchiridion de planctu seu Pharaonis et Joseph epistolae |

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et

Bernardi

versu

Silvestris

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Cosmo4.

perg.

graphia.

MS. Rawlinson C. 7. From St. Aug. Cant. no. 954.]

T. 31. Bartholomei Anglici breviarium seu de proprietatibus rerum (marg.

The boke of Physik & Chirurge.) perg. f.

Dee emit a 1573 Augusti 3 a vidua [Brit. Mus. Harley 3. Joannes ri From the Dominicans of London. See N. Moore, Carye.

Medicine in the British Isles,//, i.]

T. 32. lordani Nemorarii c&iXoTex"7? sive de triangulis liber primus, sexaginta [Bodl.

M

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A. 7, B. 16.

P erg- 4quatuor propositiones continens.

Summa brevis Galeni de cura ethicae liber de venenis Alberti de Colonia tract, de incisionibus arborum et de senectutis Unguentum ad omnem scabiem tollendam plantationibus earum quod dicitur Veni mecum etc. Tract, de ornatu faciei Hermetis liber de septem planetis etc.

Rogerii Bachonis nonnulla secreta De factura saxonis Gallici Liber de tincturis pannorum Liber de coloribus illuminatorum uel pictorum De diversis operationibus

T. 33. Rabbi Mosis

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diversis tincturis Hermetis secreta Item turba philosophorum.

From St. Aug. Cant., [C.C.C. Oxford. 125.

ignium

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notabilia

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lf.lf.lf.

Joannes Dee.]

T, 34. Experimentoium diversorum liber (marg. Gerlaci ut puto) De vernisio quo utuntur scriptores Secreta philosophorum De usu |

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T. 35. Arnaldi de Villa Nova thesaurus secretus operationum Hermetis liber de lapide philosophorum Alfredi liber de spiritu occultato Rasis practica cum aliis viginti quinque libris variorum autorum |

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consimilis argumenti. \Brit.

pap. 4

Mus. Sloane 2327.

Joannes Dee 1559.]

T. 36. Ptolomaei quadripartitum, Lat. calendarium

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Judaei

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P erg- 4 T. 37. Expositio theoricarum Thebith de motu octavae sphaerae lordanus de ponderibus cum quaestionibus notabilibus super eundem lacobus Alkindus de radiis seu de causis reddendis An futura possunt per astra praesciri Nicolai Oresmi liber divinationum Thomae Brarardini geometria Perspectiva communis loh. de Pecham Dominici de Hassia quaestiones super perspeciivam communem Euclides de speculis lacobus Alkindus de umbris et causis diversitatum aspectuum Dominici de Claraso practica Demonstrate aequalitatis lineae ad peripheriam geometriae circuli Quadratura circuli Expositio tractatus de sphaera cum quaestionibus Algorismus in integris Joh. de Sacro Bosco Algorithmus in minutiis loh. de Lineriis Thomae Brarardini significationibus

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proportionum. \Lost? Formerly at

Peterhouse

the

T.

38. loh.

MSS. given

(perg.) :

see

my

Catalogue, p. 285

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35.

Hi of

to the College

by Roger Marchall.~] canticum pauperum loh. Walensis communiEiusd. Walensis dietarium, locarium, itinerarium Eiusd.

de Pecham

loquium

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Supra

tribus sceleribus \

de secretis secretorum. {Dublin Trin. Coll 331.]

T. 39. Liber Physiologi de natura animalium et bestiarum.

Aristotelis liber

Has the mark [? Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 2. 14.

T. 40. Gualteri Burlaei tract, de potentiis animae.

[C. C. C. Oxford. 293. 6. Jo. Dee 1557.]

T. 41. Rogerii Bachonis perspectiva

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lf.1f.U-]

Perg 4

Eiusdem de multiplication specierum. perg. 4".

=

A. 25, B. 4

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee In paste bords with

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strings.

\_Magd. Coll Camb. Bibl Pepys 1207. Jo. Dee 1554.]

T. 42. Tractatuli tres de lapide philosophorum, quorum primi initium est Dicit philosophus etc.

T. 43. Vectii Valentis Anthologia (marg. quare) Aristoxeni musica Cleomedes de mundo Expositio astrolabii Alippii musica Aratum et Eudoxum. in Graece omnes. pap. f Hipparchus |

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Bodl.MS. Selden Gr.2O, the rest Selden Gr. [Art.

by Sir H. Bourgchier writing to Ussher(see p. 5).]

i,B. 10 Mentioned

22.

i is

T. 44. Libellus antiquissimus de speculis comburentibus (above: 'in cottoniana

')

cuius initium est

De

sublimiori etc. perg.

[Brit.

Mus.

Vesp. A.

it.

art. 12.

cum scholiis

T. 45. lordanus de ponderibus

4.

= A.

12, B. 21.

loannes Dee 1555.] cuius initium eSt

Omnis ponderosi. perg. f

de quinta essentia. perg. f and title not in Dee's No C. C. C. mark, 124.

Oxford hand^\ [?

T. 47. Boethius de consolatione philosophiae in Graecam linguam conversus a Maximo Planude Catonis disticha cum scholiis Planudis etc.

Graece Aphthonii progymnasmata Graece. pap. f 1 gave this Booke to Cracovia Library A \efi\July 28.

T. 46. Raymundi

Lullii liber

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in Aristotelis logicam Graece.

48. Porphyrii philosophi Isagoge Cf. A. 24, B. pap. f.

T. 49. Naupegia

Itali

cuiusdam cum

Fr. 50. Dionysii Zecharii

30

pap. 4

figuris.

opusculum de lapide philosophorum

Gallice.

pap. 4

T. 51. Roberti Gloucestrensis chronica rythmo Anglico. pap. f It beginneth at Will: y e Conq.')

I think it is in y e Cotton (marg.

Contains the names of Will. Cliffe Camb. Univ. Libr. Ee. 4. 31. '

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and Hugh

Cooke.~]

T. 52. Hysteria Britannicorum principum a Cadowaladro Rege ad Leolinum pap. f per Humfredum Lluyd collecta, Anglice.

Given to Dee in 1 5 7 5 by his cousin Oliver Lloyd^\ I. A shmole 847.

[Bod

T. 53. Variae compositiones aquarum mercurialium et alia experimenta chemica Anglice cuius initium est He that will make etc. pap. 4 T. 54. Varia experimenta chimica Anglice quorum initium est For to make perg. f

white lead.

T. 55. Alberti Magni summa naturalium cuius initium dividitur.

[Brit.

Mus. Harley

pap.

536.]

4-

est

=

Philosophia A. 19, B. 28

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T. 56. Rogerii Bachonis annotationes super Aristotelis secretorum. \C. C. C. Oxford 149.

de

tract,

secretis

P ergIo.

Dec 1561 Feb. 20

f

Londim'.~\

[57. JPhillippi Ulstadii coelum philosophorum. impressum f] T. 58. Inventa quaedam geometrica. pap. 1 My mvnehand, of Richard Changlor(ChancylorT) and Thomas Topely.

[Cf. C. C. C. Oxford 254. 7.]

Dumbyltoni summa. perg- f [Cf. St. Aug. Cani. no. 1323-4. Perhaps Magd, Coll. Oxford 32, which came from Brian Twyne and formerly belonged to Clare Clark : Wood's Life and Times, iv. 203 note.[ College, Cambridge.

Fr. 60. Beda de gestis Anglorum.

P er g- 4 [? C. C. C. Oxford 279, given by B. Twyne, without mark; or Trin. Coll.

Dublin 492.]

Fr. 61. Euclidis geometrica Aristotilis Rogerii Bachonis perspectiva Fr. 59.

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theorica planetarum.

MS. Digby

[Articles 2, 3 are perhaps Bodl.

perg. 4

77.

i,

2.]

Volumina duo magna Hebraice de

Alchimia astrologicis judiciis A. 45.

Salomonis. pap. f 2 vol.

Fr. 63. Roberti Groshed Lincolniensis episcopi Dicta quorum initium est Eiusd. tract, de cessatione Spiritus sanctus per os Salomonis etc. legalium Eiusd. tract, de oculo morali una cum aliis variis.

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Logica

cum

aliis variis

perg. f consimilis argument! Hebraice. pap. 40

65. Alhazen perspectiva etc.

John Davis T. 66. Ramundi

mecum

A. 20-22, B.

i, 2.

Eiusd. cantilena Eiusd. codicillus Eiusd. anima transmutatoria Annotationes |

vade

sive

perg. 4 Cf.

spoyle.

Lullii testamentum

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distinctio

tertia

artis

juxta exemplar

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Practica secreti occulti exemplar Aphorismi.

Opus magnum sive opus regale Considerationes operis minoris Cantilena Catalonice cum commento Ars brevis etc. pap. f |

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was

this

MS.

the

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sold at Sothebys, lot 160, 17 Nov.> 1902,

thus described: Lullius

(Raymundus).

Opera chemica

De generatione philosophorum.

Cantilena.

Liber prophetiarum.

Testamentum.

essentia.

et alchemica.

compositione Magna Magica.

Compendium

artis etc.

De

lapide

metallorum.

et

De quinta MS. on Paper

11x8 in.) with diagrams, old calf, saec. xv. have been written in St. Bartholomew's Priory, London ; to have belonged to Sir George Ripley (1473), passing from him to Sir Robert Greene of Welbe (1523), a famous alchemist, who has added some signed recipes ; from him to Dr. Dee. When the latter s house was sacked, his MSS. were thrown into the mud, of which (319 Said

ff.

to

treatment the present one bears evidence^

T. 67. Ramundi Lullii (above: Bachonis) speculum alchimiae Eiusd. liber de quinta essentia Eiusd. lapidarius scilicet de gemmis loh.

Dastini liber de compositione lapidis Eiusd. donum Dei Liber radicum Liber administrationum Eiusd. Dastini speculum philosophorum Rasis de duodecim aquis etc. pap. f [With 66, 67 cf. C.C.C. Oxford 244. // has a dale 30 Feb. 1584 (when Dee was out of England*).]

Fr. 68. Aneti filii Abraham practica medica Scarsati practica medicinalis una cum aliis. perg- 4 |

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Edowardi Regis Anglorum et P erg- 4 Joannes Dee 1575.]

Fr. 69. Eathelredi Abbatis Rievallis de vita Confessoris.

[Brit. Mus. Harley 200.

Fr. 70. Robert! ep. Lincoln, tract, in* lingua Romana, hoc est veteri rithmo Gallico de principio creationis mundi, de medio et fine etc. perg. 4

[C.C.C. Oxford 232. Has the ladder-mark onf. i. Cf. Lambeth 522, which was St. Aug. Cant. no. 1510.]

Fr. 71. Wilhelmi de North feilde expositio super librum de differentia spiritus Eiusd. expositio super diversa opuscula Aristotelis et animae |

phisicorum.

perg.

f

[C.C.C. Oxford 235.]

Fr. 72. Mag. Franconis regulae musicales cum additionibus aliorum musicorum collectae a Roberto de Handle Rogerii Bachonis perspectiva j

[?

una cum aliis geometricis Brit. Mus. Tiberius B. Perhaps from

et astrologicis.

Add. 3-5. the Austin Friars, York^\ ix.

MS. 4909

is

P er&- f a copy.

Fr. 73. Gualtheri Burlei notabilia super Porphyrii praedicabilia et Aristotelis

praedicamenta una cum aliarum notationum [C.C.C. Oxford 230.]

libellis.

pap. 4

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[Brit.

Fr. 75.

Musica |

de eius

Hermannus Contractus de compositione

astrolabii

Perg- 4

utilitatibus.

Mus. Royal

15.

B.

ix.

Contains a note apparently in the

writing of Hen. Fowler, Rector of Minchinhampton (f. P. Gilsori).]

Chronica de imperatoribus, seu compendium historiarum in (a?) prima monarchia Babiloniorum in annum Christi 1266 loh. de Bononia summa pontificum Romanorum et imperatorum in annum |

Christi 1313 Alexandri Magni ortus et res gestae.

P61"?- 4 [Cf. Dublin Trin. Coll. 448 from Thorney Abbey.']

Fr. 76. Wilhelmi Wodford ordinis Minorum opusculum quaestionum quarundam contra dialogum loh. Wycklyf a Thoma Cantuar. archiep. |

Thomas Palmere

condemnatum

de imaginibus

tract,

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variis.

aliis

pap. 4

[C.C.C. Oxford i83,//. //, art. 5.] quaedam chimica Siberti Rhodii. pap. f Fr. 78. Roberti Holcot quaestiones super iv libros Lombardi sententiarum Eiusd. quaestiones de astronomia.

P erg- 4 [C.C.C. Oxford 138.]

Fr. 79. Arnaldi de Villa Nova liber de alchimia cuius initium est Scito fili quod in hoc libro una cum aliis eiusdem opusculis. pap. 4 77. Collectanea

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J. Dee on f. i.] cosmographia per D. Hieronymum Stredonem Lat. perg. f (Marg., lined through : I had two of this.)

Dublin Trin. Coll. 371 from Christ Church, Canterbury,

Camb. O.

Fr. 80. Ethici philosophi

conversa. [(Cf. no. 9.) no. 137.

?

mark Wty.]

// has the

8 1. Rogerii Bachonis epistolae tres sive scripta

quibus latet sapientia mundi Gebri et Avicennae chimica.

82. Euclidis

elementorum geometricorum

tria

ad loh. Parisiensem,

Rex ad Morienum

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this is on vellum.] [? Bodl. MS. Savile 19, but Fr. 83. Alhazeni perspectiva, libri septem Lat. perg. f.

Cf. A. 20-22, B, i, 2.

Old press-mark M. u.

[C.C.C. Oxford 150, marked ipp^..

Formerly belonged to Clare College, Cambridge^ 84. De fabrica speculi ustorii fragmentum Urso de effectibus qualitatum Liber vaccae Alberti dona Thomas aquinas de primarum essentiis rerum.

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[C.C.C. Oxford 236. Bought from Leland.]

perg. f

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etc. Lat.

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A. 26, B.

Albumazar de [C.C.C.

88. lacobi

conclusiones

Stapulensis

3.

perg. f

judiciis astrologicis.

Oxford 248. From St. Aug. Cant. 1145.

Fabri

25

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phisicae etc.

ex Aristotele

pap. f seu medicinalis.

A. 40. [Bought from Leland.] perg. f.

Fr. 90. Bartholomaeus Anglicus de proprietatibus rerum. perg. f. grandiori.

Has the [C.C.C. Oxford 249. Joh. Davy of M. Aldon 1545. excerptae.

89. loh. Eschindi

summa Anglicana

ladder-markl\ 91. lordani Nemorarii arithmetica integris loh. de Sacrobosco

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P er &- f Has onf. 138 a.] \?Brit. Mus. Claud. B. ix.

93. Francisci Catanei Diacetii paraphrasis in Aristotelem de coelo etc.

A. 29, B. 8. perg. f.

Fr. 94. Isidori Hispalensis liber de natura rerum cum glosulis Prisciani Bedae versus de die iudicii. institutio Perg- 4 From St. Aug. Cant. no. 434.] \Brit. Mus. Domitian A. i.

Fr. 95. Tract, de figuris stellarum in octava sphaera Gebri libri novem de lordani libri de astronomia Almagesti libri sex abbreviati Plures conclusiones Almagisti abbreviati Archimedis triangulis Tract. Albeonis Tabula pro locis liber de curvis superficiebus Tract. Zaphei Arzachelis etc.

CapituL libri planetarum Compendium musices ex Boetio Kuclidis elementa Almagesti Gebri conclusiones de astronomia Theodosii geometrica Milei de figuris sphaericis et triangulis libri tres sphaerica Tabulae planetarum de radicibus et motibus Machumeti Bagdedim liber divisionum. (Marg: A. Curaui imprimi Urbini in Italia per

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Thebith tract, de motu Tract, de proportione circumferentiae circuli etc.

Tabulae quatuor solis.

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97. Vitellionis perspectiva.

P er g- f-

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[Bodl. Ashmole 424.

pap. 4 A. 33. a note by Dee on the

Has

Pelerhouse,

exchange with Peterhouse (1564), and also: P. Saunders 1606 a Domino Hypsly^\ Archimides de quadratura 98. Theodosii sphaerica [ Euclidis data Lat. circuli.

A. 9, B. 18. perg. 4.

Fr. 99. Haly de judiciis astrorum.

A. 41. perg. f.

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Formerly

151.

Peterhouse.

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consolatione philosophiae cum commento Scripta lordanus de speculis lordanus super plures libros geometriae de ponderibus Archadii demonstrationes de quadratura circuli Tract. Hermanni de astrolabio Liber de similibus arcubus Archimedes de figuris isoperimetris Archimedes de curvis

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St.

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no. 987.]

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prima philosophia i.e. de causa causarum, vel metaphisica Lat. perg. 4 Fr. 102. Alhazeni perspectiva.

P er g- 4- Cf. A. 10, 20-22, B. 19.

Fr. 103. Ricardi de Posis (Pophis) summa epistolarum (quasi ars quaedam notariatus)

secundum consuetudinem Romanae

curiae.

perg.

f

No

[C.C.C. Oxford 55.

mark.]

Fr. 104. Arzachelis tabulae astronomicae.

Gonv. and Cams 456. St. Aug. Cant. no. [?

perg- 4 1

150.]

105. Chronicon Angliae Anglice manuscriptum.

P6 ^- f Trin. Coll. 506.] [? Dublin 1 06. Aristotelis commentum in astrologiam (fragmentum quoddam). perg. 4 Fr. 107. Alberti Magni minerarium.

Perg- 4 \Cf. St. Aug. Cant. no. 1077.]

Fr. 1 08. Haly de iudiciis astrorum j Liber novem iudicum in astrologia

Messahala de

lafar de imbribus

nativitatibus

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iudiciis universalibus |

Guido Bonatus de

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Hani Benhannae

astrologia.

liber

de geometria pap.

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MS.

Ladder-mark.

Savile 15.

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loannes Dee 1564.

P.

Saunders.]

cum commento

Fr. 109. Algorithmic integrorum

cum commento

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Arithutriusque arithmeticae Boetii metica compilata ex multis scientiis Liber de figuris numerorum Practica memorandi Tract, de speculo combustorio sec. sectionem Mukesii Euclidis geometricorum libri 15 cum |

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Fr. no. Rob. Lincoln, ep. Constitutiones pro sua diocesi

videl. in

decalogum perg' f

etc. [?

Fr.

in.

Bodl.

A. 37

MS. Barlow

2.]

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regulorum Cambricorum a Cadowaladro ad Leolini pap. 4 tempora, lingua Brytannica sive Cambrica.

Fr. 113. Perquisita et alia quae pertinebant ad Winchecumbe Abbatiam.

Fr. 112. Annales

perg. 40 \? Brit.

Mus.

Cleop.

Winchcomb Abbey.

Fr.

1 1

4.

Sir John Button had a register of Hearne, Coll. viii. 329.]

B.

ii.

Boetii arithmetica.

perg. 4

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1 1 6.

Fr. 117.

De Indorum

De

Persarum annis astronomicis

et

Annotationes in A. 28, B. 7 perg. 4.

Martianum Capellam.

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Albertus de divinatione

tudinis et brevitatis vitae

sign is Massiliensis

aquarum ventorum

spiritu et

et

tempestatum de cursu planetarum Alexander Ramundus Aphrodiseus ad imperatores Antoninum et Severum de fato Quaestiones de intellectu Quaestiones de anima Her nannus Secundus de essentiis Platonis Phaedon sive de anima Cominspiratione

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Fr. 118.

De

administratione principum

liber.

[St. Johns Coll, Camb. 12, Pt. //.]

Fr. 119. Isidori Hispalensis etymologiarum fragmentum

Fr.

1

20.

magnum,

P^g-

4

perg.

f

Tabulae astronomicae ad annos decem cum canonibus |

cum

rithmus demonstratus Alcabicii

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Computus Aug. Cant.

no.

Alfraganus de annis numeris proportionalibus

minuciis

Tabulae astrologia cum calendario.

\St.

Algo-

P er g- 4

1154.]

121. Polychronica.

P^g-

*

St. Aug. Cant. no. 936.

Given by [Queen's Coll. Oxford 307.

Dee to Blomefelde (?vice versa) in 1561.]

122. Polychronica.

P^g- f minori. lo. Dee 1573 Nov. 13.]

[St. John's Coll. Camb. 12, Pt. I. Fr. 123. Hystoriae Britannicae et Anglicae fragmentum Gallice conscriptum. perg. 4 Title, as above, in Dee's hand^\ [C.C.C. Oxford 293. 3.

Fr. 124. Guido Bonatus de iudiciis astrorum. perg. f Fr. 125. Passionale. desunt quaedam. perg. f 126. Astronomici libelli cuiusdam fragmentum cuius initium est

A

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philosophis astronomiam sic definitam accepimus.

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Perg- 4 Ars fidei secundum 127. Expositio quaedam super Cantica Canticorum Ambionensem. Is cut out and to be answered for. Macrobius |

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Matricula sive catalogus bibliothecae Cantuariensis. pap. f [Dublin Trin. Coll. 60. St. Augustine's, Canterbury^] Author de causis cum demonstrationibus.

Per o- f Alchimicus libellus Anglice cuius init. est Take limale. pap. 4 Varii tractatus super capitulum Hermetis Libellus chimicus Latine quod dicitur Clavis Sapientiae Maioris.

P6 ^- f Sidrach philosophi liber Gallice. Anglice nomine Sidrach et Bocchus excusus carmine. perg. 4 The volume contains other Dee books.]

JV C.C.C. Oxford 293. i. in

Scipionis.

p Austin Fr. 128.

Fr. 129.

Fr. 130.

131.

Fr. 132.

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Kalendarium Quaedam de computu ecclesiastico Latine Saxonice Alphabetum somniale Preces quaedam piae. p Brit. Mus. Vitellius E. xviii (burnf) or Julius A. r/.]

134. Lectiones cuiusdam super Ecclesiasten. perg.

Fr. 133.

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Fr. 135.

Commentarius bonus

in definitiones quinti libri Euclidis

Euclides |

ex Campani traditione Explicatio bona Archimedis de quadratura circuli.

[C.C.C. Oxford 234. /. Dee 1557.] totus

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Fr. 136. Cicero de natura deorum Catonis liber ad Varronem Euclidis liber cum commento Praeceptum canonum Ptolomaei Tract, |

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Tabulae astronomicae Aripractica Henrici stotelis epistola de rectiludine vitae ad Alexandrum Britton philosophia Oliveri Britton philosophia Philosophia astrolabii duplicis

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quaedam

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speculis

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Per g- 4

alia.

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[C.C.C. Oxford 283.

St.

Aug. Cant.

no. 1009.]

Eiusd. de Trinitate libri Eiusd. de Fr. 137. Boetii arithmetica Rob. Christo naturis Eiusd. de hebdomadibus |

duabus

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visu

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somniorum

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significationibus

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Cheiromantia Lat. P er g- 4-

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Astronomica, astrologica, et arithmetica Observationes quaedam planetarum et fixarum Petri de Sancto Audomaro et loh. de A 31, B. 34 Lineriis. perg. 4. |

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[Dublin Trin. Coll., 58.]

Fr. 139.

now

From

lost.

St.

Aug. Cant. no. 1148 or

Tabulae astronomicae cum canonibus.

perg. 8

[Dublin Trin. Coll. 444. From St. Albans. lo. Deeus 1553, 28 Ian. ex dono Al ri Doctoris quondam Abbatis S. Albanil\ Libellus de natura locorum.

P erg- 8 140.

Fr. 141. Ivonis Carnutensis varii tractatus ecclesiastici, et

larum diversorum ad diversos

volumen

etc.

epistoperg. f

[C.C.C. Oxford 137.]

Musica Expositio Simonis de arithmeticae Boetii.

[C.C.C. Oxford 118. lo. Dee 1573.

Fr. 142. Boetii

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Welbe.} Fr. 143. Calcidius in Platonis

Also: Robert

Timaeum.

libros

perg. 4 Grene de

perg. 4" long.

B. xxii. Jo. Dee 1557 4 Mail Londini.']

Liber qui dicitur Prenonphysicon 444. Marii de elementis libri duo Alardi Bathoniensis quaestiones naturales Physiognomia sec.

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Fr.

Bredon super duos

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Palemonem

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Expositio quintae incisionis epidemiarum Hippocratis Melancholici liber de substantia urinae Palladius de agricultura Liber de simplici medicina. perg. f Mus. Galba E, iv, pi, II, from Bury St. Edmunds, contains \jBrit. liber

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147. Serapionis de aptatione et repressione seu servitor Serapionis. perg. f<> Fr. 148. Thomae de Aquino de veritate theologica libri septem. perg. 4 O. 8. 30.] [? Trin. Coll. Camb. libri

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tract,

de lapidibus

lacobus Alkindus de

radiis.

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150. Historia Anglica cuiusdam anonymi.

[Cf. Dublin Trin. Coll. 506.]

Fr. 151. Euclidis optica catoptrica et geometria Lat.

[C.C.C. Oxford 251.

Has

perg. 4

ladder-mark on f.

From

i.

Leeds

Priory, Kent.\ Fr. 152.

Fragmentum theologicum quodclam in Has TpM. on \? C.C.C. Oxford 239.

153. Tract, astrolabii positione epistola

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De ae'ris dissignificatione rei occultae Ars Aristotelis notariatus J i

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pap. 4

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annorum mundi

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perg. 4

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Vita S. Aegidii. perg. 4

[C.C.C. Oxford 221.

Fr. 159.

Fr.

1

From

St.

Computus ecclesiasticus Beda de [>St. Aug. Cant. no. 1128.]

Aug. Cant.

no. 1170.]

calculatione |

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Computus. perg. 4

60. Wilhelmi de Conchis philosophia.

[St. John's Coll. lo. Dee 1557 4

Camb. 171.

Maii

.

.

.

perg. 4

From

St.

Aug. Cant.

de apparentiis seu

[C.C.C. Oxford 228.]

1485.

Londim'J]

Fr. 161. Quaestiones super elenchos et alia logicalia.

Fr. 162. Quaestiones

no.

fallaciis sophisticis

pap. manuscriptae. pap.

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

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163. Albert! de Saxonia tract, proportionum 4

impressus Rothomagi de productionibus personarum in divinis sec, mentem loh. Scoti 4 impressum una cum aliis tractatibus variarum quaestionum papyro manuscript.

4 [Also in C.C.C. Oxford 228.] lac.

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tract,

Lupi |

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Beaumundi regimen sanitatis cum aliis variis experimentis Anglice quam Latine scriptis.

P61"?- 4 College, Oxford, MSS. 166, 167 are medical books once owned

164. Henrici tarn

[New by

Henry Beaumundl\

Thomae de Eiusd. de sufficientia de essentia Avendauth de quinque universalibus Alchindi philosophi de quinque essentiis ex verbis Aristotelis abstractus liber Platonis Timaeus Isaac de diffinitionibus lacob de rationali in anima Lat. Alexandri Philosophi de intellectu et intelligibili liber Lat. Alchindus Algacelis logica de intellectu et intellecto Amaometh liber introductorius in artem logicam demonstrationis Averrhois de substantia orbis Alfarabius de intellectu et intellecto Liber planetarum cuiusdam discipuli Ptolomaei MercuriusTrismegistus Secundus Liber de Boetius de unitate Philosophus de diffinitionibus differentia spiritus et animae forte Athelardi Liber metaphisicae Avicennae qui non est completus Fr. 1 66. De philosophia Salomonis Fulgentius ep. ad Calcidium grammaticum Cassiodorus de Experimenta quaedam alchimica anima una cum aliis theologicis. perg. 8 165. Avicenna de

Aquino

naturalibus

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[Brit. Mus. Royal 7. D. ii. From St. Aug.Cant.no. 415. Io.Dee.~\ Fr. 167. Boetii arithmetica Theorica planetarum et stellarum sec. AlfraBoetii musica Euclidis geometrica ganum Propositiones |

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planisphaerii Ptolomaei

cum

Maslem

additionibus

arabis.

perg. 4

[C.C.C. Oxford 224.

mark on f.

1

and

i

From

St.

Mary's, Fork.

Has

the ladder-

notes in Dee's hand^\

68. Disputatio inter militem et clericum.

perg. 4

St. John's Coll. Camb. 1 60, pt. /.] \?

Fr. 169. loh. Scoti quaestiones super 2 et 3

libro Aristotelis de anima Antonii Andreae quaestiones in Aristotelis meteora. pap. 4 [C.C.C. Oxford 227. No mark] Fr. 170. Isidori Hispalensis liber differentiarum Ciceronis academicae Eiusd. natura deorum Eiusd. de divinatione quaestiones Eiusd. de fato Eiusd. paradoxa Eiusd. Philippicae orationes Libellus de bestiis avibus et arboribus Salustius de bello Catilinario et lugurthino Vegetius de re militari etc. perg. 4 |

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Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee 171.

Computus

perg. 8

ecclesiasticus.

\Cf. St. Aug. Cant. no. 1127.]

172. Solinus de mirabilibus mundi.

Dublin Trin. Coll. 425.] [?

173.

33

= A.

P er g- 4-

14, B. 23.

Bona

Malchus etc. gesta Mariae perg. 16 \The Malchus of Reginald of Canterbury is in Laud Misc. 40 and Laud Misc. 40 is from Rochester.

500, and Vesp. E. Hi. |

Cf. St.

Aug. Cant.

no. 1494.]

perg. 8 175. Sortilegia nugatoria.

P erg- 4 Fr. 176. loh. Sarisberiensis policraticum sive de nugis curialium et vestigiis philosophorum libri octo. perg. 4

Fr. 174. Sortilegia nugatoria.

Fr. 177.

[C.C.C. Oxford 222.] cum Compotus manualis

aliis sexaginta quinque tractatibus variorum autorum in medicinalibus physicis astronomicis et |

perg. 8 perg- 4

aliis.

178. Gebri summa alchimiae.

Bodl. Ashmole 1384.] [?

Fr.

Fr.

179. Hermetis cuiusdam libellus de rebus universalibus.

1 80. Imago mundi cuius initium est Operatio divina.

1

8 1.

perg. 4 perg. 4

Marked Tflj. and 'fuit D. loannis {Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 8. 6.

Dee'.

Between 181 and 182 is written: Vbi Ciceronis libri // must refer to 1 80.] aliquot manuscripti.

Thomae Bravardini Anglici propositiones (above: proportiones) A. 16, B. 25. geometriae. perg. 4.

=

[?

Vatican. Regin. 1161 (Montfaucon) or Bodl.

MS. Digby

76,

ff.

IIO-I2O.] 182.

Macer de

virtutibus

herbarum.

Fr. 183. Libellus medicinae et chirurgiae partim etiam Gallice.

P61"^ 4 partim Latine partim Anglice pe>'g- 16

Has Dees hand in //.]

Ramundi Lulii practica chimica Anglice. loannes Dee 1577.]

[Brit. Mus. Sloane 2128.

[C.C.C. Oxford 135.

184.

pap. 4

videlicet tres tractatus alchimici Volvi lapidem etc. De 185. Alchimica Secretum secretorum Fieri philosophi. quinta essentia Mercurii perg. 4 Fr. 1 86. Roberti Lincoln, ep. de luce, de iride cum multis aliorun tract, thik boke with a labell. circiter 34.

Perg- 4:

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\lBodl.

MS.

Fr. 187. Libri diversi first

(the {Bodl. MS.

Digby 104.] astrologici quorum primi

init.

est Postulata

words of the Introductorium of Alchabitius).

Ashmole 191, II.] C

a Domino perg. 4

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

34 Fr.

1

88. Roger! Bachonis, Morieni Romani, loh. Viennensis, Alberti Magni, Hermetis, Rasis, Hortolani, chimica quaedam.

P erg- 8

Camb. O. 7. 35. Has a corresponding note of contents Dee s handl\ 189. Speculum secretorum cum aliis baud contemnendis chemicis frag\Trin. Coll. in

mentis.

perg. 4 lohannicii glosulae cum aliis tractatibus Rogeri Bachonis et Rob. Lincoln, ep. etc. perg. 4 Fr. 191. Libellus chimicus cuius init. est Materia lapidis. pap. 8 192. lacobi Alkindi de pluviis, imbribus, ventis, et de mutatione aeris.

190. loh. de Sacrobosco sphaera

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pap. f

duodecim aquarum etc.

P erg- 4 [C.C.C. Oxford 277.]

194. Aegidii de Wallecers computus, de cometis, de crepusculis Tabulae domorum et ascensionum Kallendarii errores lo. de Pecham 30 Arabes qui dicuntur Magistri probaperspectiva communis tionum Tract, minutiarum una cum aliis.

P61"?- 8 From St. Aug. Cant. no. 1130.] \Bodl. Ashmole 341.

Fr. 193. Liber Fr.

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195.

Abraham

ludaei liber de iudiciis nativitatum

cum

aliis variis.

pap. 4"

de mineralibus cuius init. est De mixiione et coagulatione etc.

Rogerii Bachonis epistola prima ad loh. Parisiensem Summa aurea una cum multorum aliorum tractatibus. perg. 4 In a blak cover with clasps. /. Deeus \Bodl. MS. Digby 119.

1581.]

Fr. 196. Albertus |

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Fr. 197. Ludus astronomicus.

Fr. 198. Parisiensis (marg. forte

pap. 8 loh:) liber cuius

init.

est

Augustinus de

civitate Dei etc. pap. 4 [C.C.C. Oxford 231.]

Fr. 199. Pomum Ambrae Trotulae de ornatu mulierum Ascarus Philosophus de signis mulierum De secretis mulierum cum aliis experimentis Theophilus Monachus de coloribus Eraclius de coloribus et artibus Roman. Quaedam experimenta medica cum aliis superstitiosis Compositio et usus astrolabii una cum aliis.

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Mus. Egerton 823, 840* {formerly Trin. Coll. Camb.

Their contents R. 15. 15). From St. Aug. Cant. no. 1599. correspond to Arts. 5 sqq. of the above list.]

[Among the printed bocks, under the title Chemici Libri etc. compacti, occur these manuscripts^ De 200. Ramundi Lulii ars generalis cum quaestionibus eiusdem 4 Speculum medicinae. medi(ci)na et astronomia eiusdem \Cf. Brit.

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Lulii ars magna cum figuris Eiusd. ars generalis cum quaestionibus Eiusd. introductorium sive canones artis generalis Eiusd. de principiis et medicinae gradibus Eiusd. de f regiminibus sanitatis et infirmitatis.

Has the ladder-mark and the name of [C.C.C. Oxford 247.

Ramundi

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P. Saunders] [There follows in Halliwell's book, pp. 87-9, Elias Ashmole's list (from MS. Ashmole 1720) of such of Dee's MSS. as had come to his hands.

They are all records of his intercourse with spirits, and have no bearing on our present subject.]

Of other MSS.

which certainly or probably belonged to Dee, in the Catalogue, I have noted the following in various collections : but I have little doubt that the list is

and do not occur incomplete.

Lord Tollemache's Library.

Hall, Suffolk.

The Lauderdale MS. of Alfred's Orosius is recorded to have belonged to Dee, but his name is not to be found in it.

Helmingham

Lambeth Library.

Creton's poem on the deposition of Richard II has the 598, pt. III. note ' John Dee 1575 gave for this boke a boke of the foundation of (blank) in Oxfordshire '.

London,

Museum.

British

Sloane 2325, paper, cent, xv, ff. 33. loannes Dee 1557 beginning: Many a regyon & centre y haue y sowte.

Stowe 1070, paper, cent, xv-xvi, ff. 74. loannes Dee. Patricius Saunders i6o6(?)

G. Theophanes R. Farmer.

It

(=

Tiffin) 1730.

contains some fourteen alchemical tracts, of which the 1. Tract. Nicholai Comitis.

2.

Summa

3.

Speculum Alkimie Rog. Baconis.

And

first

are

Platonis.

the last

is

:

Dialogus inter Naturam et filium philosophic.

Oxford, Bodleian Library.

Ashmole 1451,

pt.

II,

MS. of 66 ff. in English and Latin,

by Brixham with marginalia by Dee, C 2

a paper

of alchemical tracts mostly

Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee

36 1

492, .

.

pt. I,

.

a paper

MS.

of 6

lo.

ff.

Dee 1 569.

Opus expertum

Parisiis

1540.

Digby 192 (Raymund Lull) Ars demonstrativa

;

has a note of Dee's of

1576.

218,

art. 3.

Bacon's Opus Minus according to

Oxford, Corpus Christi College.

65. Tacuinus, from Twyne, has some

Twyne belonged

to

Dee.

notes of accounts, perhaps in

Dee's hand.

1

01. Ptolemy, etc., has a note on f. i by Dee (?) and at the of Casimir of Poland to Cracow University.

end a

letter

From Twyne; bound together: Bacon de erroribus medicorum and some alchemical tracts may be Dee's, but have not his hand in them.

Life of St. Oswin ; from Twyne marked y. but belonged to

127, 128.

:

1

34.

:

Savile of

;

Banke.

136. Collectanea Alchemica, Latin and English; belonged to

Dee

1559144. Astronomica,

Twyne.

Alanus

de

Came from Tynemouth

Insula, G. Vinsauf: Priory (as also 134).

from

in

148. Bacon's Greek Grammar: from Twyne.

152 has the ladder-mark and belonged to Dee: see Wood's Life and Times, iv. 266-7. It contains works of Nic. Kratzer.

from Twyne.

153. lo. Dastin, etc. has the ladder-mark and apparently Dee's hand on the verso of a fragment of a will at the end.

Contents alchemical. :

185 191

223

Dee's note-book see above. has the ladder-mark. Bacon, Urso, is

:

etc.

226. Marbod, etc., partly by the scribe of 227 (see above, no.

169): has a note 'Receyved at Manchester by Col. Arnold from ' Mistres Marie Nevel 1597 ec *7 237. Life of S. Katherine, etc., in English verse : has the ladder-mark.

^

-

238. Alchemical (Rosarium, Ortolanus, Morienus, etc.). ladder-mark.

242. Lydgate's Fall of Princes 250. In Ciceronis Rhetorica, etc. : ladder-mark and If..

252. Romance of Marques ladder-mark.

276 has 1J.TJ.1J.. Bernard de Gordonio. :

:

278. Mesue, etc.: ladder-mark.

290. Aristotle's Metaphysics : ladder-mark.

LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS NOTICED The sign vac. means that the MS. in question but in the supplementary list which follows it.

31

4.

Colleges Gonville

"5 =

=51?

and Cams

Pepys 1207 2329

= 41 = 91

Peterhouse

=

=

171

168 1 60

O.

14 = 39?

47 = 79 2. 50 = 3 = 34 7. 23 2.

35

8.

6

=

=

44i

=

= =

cf.

60

cf.

105, 150

=4

vac.

114 67 70?

522 598 in vac.

London British Museum Cotton

Cheltenham 13

Julius A. vi, cf.

Cracow University,

425,

23 !57 cf. 172 137 139 cf. 75

=

= =

'88

180

O. 8. 30= 148 R. 15. 15, see on 199

Phillipps 16345

403

80

Helmingham No number Lambeth

2.

7.

cf.

lost= 138 Glasgow Hunter U. 4. 11

Trinity

O. O.

cf.

381,

448, 492, 506,

John's 12 Il8, 122

160=

371,

444

=37

Lost

7

= 38 360 = 128 33i

456 = 104?

Magdalene

O. O. O.

own catalogue,

Trinity College

University Library

St.

not in Dee's

Dublin

Cambridge Ee.

is

Tiberius

47 given

to.

133

B. ix, C. v

cf.

72

= 26

List of Manuscripts noticed

38 British

Museum :

Claudius

D. E. E. Vitellius E. Vespasian A.

vii

ii

E. I

104,

= 25

xviii, cf.

A. x B. x Domitian

Preface

=144

= 92

x, see iv (ii)

Galba

= = 77 = 61

Cotton (contd.)

B. ix

133 44 and A. 15

= = 10 =9

Hi, cf.

=

173

94

Cleopatra B. i, cf. 113 C. ix 156

= 84O a =

Egerion 823, 20 Harley i

=

199

= 3i = 69 536 = 55 3

2325

D.

119 174 178

= =

196 100 29

i,

192 vac.

218

vac.

Laud Misc. 40

= 173 = 30

Rawlinson C. 7 Savile 15 108

= =5 19 = 82?

55 = M5 18

Colleges

ii

Corpus Christi 41 55 103 65 vac.

101 vac.

=

in =

vac.

146

= 142 124 = 46?

125 = 33 118

Siowe 1070 vac.

Manchester

Chetham A.

5. 24, cf.

19

Oxford Bodleian Library

n=

Ashmole 191 341 194 369 155 424 97 847 52 1384= 178?

1451 ii vac.

1471 24 1492 i vac.

= = = =

=

Barlow

2

=

=

= 166 12 B. xxii = 143 15 B. ix = 74 Sloane 2128 = 184 7

?

1 86

cf.

Selden gr. 20, 22 19 supra 94

200

Royal

84 Digby 71 181 ?

76

= no?

187

127, 128 vac.

12 130

=

134 '35 136 137 138 144 148 149 150

vac.

=

183

vac.

= 141 = 78 vac.

vac.

= 56 = 83 = 99

151 152 vac.

153 vac.

183 H 76

=

=

43

14

List of Manuscripts noticed Oxford

Corpus Christi

:

{conld.)

Oxford

vac.

250

185 8 189 191 vac.

221 158 222 176 223 vac.

224 167 225 226 vac.

=

232,

254,

70 i53 i35

= = 7i = 85

242 vac.

243= "7 245=

67

"

= 2OI 2 4 8 = 87 249 = 90 247

279, 28 3

=

=

193

60

cf.

'3 6

vac.

=

40, 123, 132

Magdalen 32

New

58

=

59?

College 166, 167,

Queen's 307

=

cf.

164

121

borrowed from 109 Paris

237, 238 239, cf. 152

cf.

artt. 7, 8, cf. 19,

vac. vac.

290 293

163

vac.

244,

(contd!)

=

276 277 278

cf.

233= 234 235 236

Corpus Christi

:

vac.

251 151 252 vac.

= =

= =6 227 = 169 228 = 162, 230 = 73 231 = 198

39

Bibl.

Mazarine 1271

=

27

Rome Vatican Regin. 1151, 1

161,

cf.

181

Sotheby's Sale 17 Nov. 1902 lot 1

60

= 66

cf.

95

ADDITIONAL NOTE Dee's

own account of

the pillage of his library, and of

its

'

' briefe note and abstract of value, is to be found in the his career (drawn up in 1592) which is printed by Hearne in Joh. Glastoniensis (II. 500).

Here, on p. 529, we read :

& anciently written, the fourth part of which were the written bookes.'

He values them at 2,000. 'And, to make this valuation probable unto your Honour, behold yet here these four written '

The

bound

&

bookes of unbound, were in

divers

my all

late

library, printed

near 4000

:

bookes, one in Greek, this great volumn ; two in French ; and this in High Dutch. They cost me and my friends for me 533 lib< What is then to be thought of the value of some one hundred of the best of all the other written bookes, of which some were the autographa of excellent & seldome heard-of Authors?

The furniture of the said library was of my getting together in above 40 yeares time from divers places beyond the seas, & some by my great search and labour gotten here in England '. He then gives some account of his mathematical instruments, and of two collections of Irish and Welsh deeds (the latter, apparently, rescued from a half-ruined I mean such as church). On p. 534 he values his lost books (above 500) may be gotten for money' at above 150. .

.

.

'

what the four MSS. were which he produced the price paid for them is enormous and but ; the catalogue of the MSS. shows that in 1583 he did not possess much over 200 MSS., whereas here he reckons them at 1,000.

I doubt if we can trust his figures ; but the extract * and the deserves to be quoted, abstract to be read.

I

cannot

tell

as a sample

;

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