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TS OF MANUSCRIPTSFORMERLY OWNED BY

DR. JOHN DEEWITH PREFACE AND IDENTIFICATIONS

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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 PRESSFOR THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY1921


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LISTS OF MANUSCRIPTSFORMERLY OWNED BY

DR. JOHN DEESt. Aug. Cant. no. 1128.]

Fr. 1 60. Wilhelmi de Conchis philosophia. perg. 4[St. John's Coll. Camb. 171. From St. Aug. Cant. no. 1485.

lo. Dee 1557 4 Maii . . . Londim'J]Fr. 161. Quaestiones super elenchos et alia logicalia. pap.Fr. 162. Quaestiones de apparentiis seu fallaciis sophisticis manuscriptae.

pap.[C.C.C. Oxford 228.]


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32 Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee163. Albert! de Saxonia tract, proportionum 4 impressus Rothomagi |

lac. Lupi tract, de productionibus personarum in divinis sec,mentem|loh. Scoti 4 impressum | una cum aliis tractatibusvariarum quaestionum papyro manuscript. 4[Also in C.C.C. Oxford 228.]

164. Henrici Beaumundi regimen sanitatis cum aliis variis experimentistarn Anglice quam Latine scriptis. P61"?- 4[New College, Oxford, MSS. 166, 167 are medical books once ownedby Henry Beaumundl\

165. Avicenna de naturalibus | Eiusd. de sufficientia | Thomae deAquino tract, de essentia | Avendauth de quinque universalibus |Alchindi philosophi de quinque essentiis ex verbis Aristotelisabstractus liber|

Platonis Timaeus|Isaac de diffinitionibus

Lat.|lacob de rationali in anima | Alexandri Philosophi de

intellectu et intelligibili liber Lat. | Algacelis logica | Alchindusde intellectu et intellectojAmaometh liber introductorius in

artem logicam demonstrationis j Averrhois de substantia orbis |Alfarabius de intellectu et intellecto | Liber planetarumcuiusdam discipuli Ptolomaei | MercuriusTrismegistus | SecundusPhilosophus de diffinitionibus | Boetius de unitate | Liber dedifferentia spiritus et animae forte Athelardi | Liber metaphisicaeAvicennae qui non est completus

Fr. 1 66. De philosophia Salomonis | Fulgentius ep. ad Calcidium gram-maticum| Experimenta quaedam alchimica | Cassiodorus deanima una cum aliis theologicis. perg. 8

[Brit. Mus. Royal 7. D. ii. From St. Aug.Cant.no. 415. Io.Dee.~\Fr. 167. Boetii arithmetica | Theorica planetarum et stellarum sec. Alfra-ganum | Boetii musica | Euclidis geometrica | Propositionesplanisphaerii Ptolomaei cum additionibus Maslem arabis.

perg. 4[C.C.C. Oxford 224. From St. Mary's, Fork. Has the ladder-mark on f. i and notes in Dee's hand^\

1 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 animaAntonii Andreae quaestiones in Aristotelis meteora. pap. 4[C.C.C. Oxford 227. No mark]Fr. 170. Isidori Hispalensis liber differentiarum | Ciceronis academicae

quaestiones | Eiusd. natura deorum | Eiusd. de divinatione |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 33171. Computus ecclesiasticus. perg. 8

\Cf. St. Aug. Cant. no. 1127.]172. Solinus de mirabilibus mundi. Perg- 4- = A. 14, B. 23.

[? Dublin Trin. Coll. 425.]173. Bona gesta Mariae | Malchus etc. perg. 16

\The Malchus of Reginald of Canterbury is in Laud Misc. 40 and500, and Vesp. E. Hi. Laud Misc. 40 is from Rochester.Cf. St. Aug. Cant. no. 1494.]Fr. 174. Sortilegia nugatoria. perg. 8

175. Sortilegia nugatoria. Perg- 4Fr. 176. loh. Sarisberiensis policraticum sive de nugis curialium et vestigiis

philosophorum libri octo. perg. 4[C.C.C. Oxford 222.]Fr. 177. Compotus manualis | cum aliis sexaginta quinque tractatibus

variorum autorum in medicinalibus physicis astronomicis etaliis. perg. 8

178. Gebri summa alchimiae. perg- 4[? Bodl. Ashmole 1384.]

179. Hermetis cuiusdam libellus de rebus universalibus. perg. 4Fr. 1 80. Imago mundi cuius initium est Operatio divina. perg. 4

{Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 8. 6. Marked Tflj. and 'fuit D. loannisDee'. Between 181 and 182 is written: Vbi Ciceronis librialiquot manuscripti. // must refer to 1 80.]Fr. 1 8 1. Thomae Bravardini Anglici propositiones (above: proportiones)geometriae. perg. 4. = A. 16, B. 25.[? Vatican. Regin. 1161 (Montfaucon) or Bodl. MS. Digby 76, ff.IIO-I2O.]182. Macer de virtutibus herbarum. P61"^ 4

Fr. 183. Libellus medicinae et chirurgiae partim Latine partim Anglicepartim etiam Gallice. pe>'g- 16

[C.C.C. Oxford 135. Has Dees hand in //.]184. Ramundi Lulii practica chimica Anglice. pap. 4

[Brit. Mus. Sloane 2128. loannes Dee 1577.]185. Alchimica : videlicet tres tractatus alchimici Volvi lapidem etc. | De

quinta essentia Mercurii | Secretum secretorum Fieri philosophi.perg. 4Fr. 1 86. Roberti Lincoln, ep. de luce, de iride cum multis aliorun tract,

circiter 34. Perg- 4- A thik boke with a labell.\lBodl. MS. Digby 104.]

Fr. 187. Libri diversi astrologici quorum primi init. est Postulata a Domino(the first words of the Introductorium of Alchabitius). perg. 4

{Bodl. MS. Ashmole 191, II.]C


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34 Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John DeeFr. 1 88. Roger! Bachonis, Morieni Romani, loh. Viennensis, Alberti Magni,

Hermetis, Rasis, Hortolani, chimica quaedam. Perg- 8\Trin. Coll. Camb. O. 7. 35. Has a corresponding note of contents

in Dee s handl\189. Speculum secretorum cum aliis baud contemnendis chemicis frag-mentis. perg. 4190. loh. de Sacrobosco sphaera | lohannicii glosulae cum aliis tracta-

tibus| Rogeri Bachonis et Rob. Lincoln, ep. etc. perg. 4Fr. 191. Libellus chimicus cuius init. est Materia lapidis. pap. 8

192. lacobi Alkindi de pluviis, imbribus, ventis, et de mutatione aeris.pap. fFr. 193. Liber duodecim aquarum etc. Perg- 4

[C.C.C. Oxford 277.]Fr. 194. Aegidii de Wallecers computus, de cometis, de crepusculis | Tabulae

domorum et ascensionum | Kallendarii errores | lo. de Pechamperspectiva communis | 30 Arabes qui dicuntur Magistri proba-tionum

|Tract, minutiarum una cum aliis. P61"?- 8

\Bodl. Ashmole 341. From St. Aug. Cant. no. 1130.]195. Abraham ludaei liber de iudiciis nativitatum cum aliis variis.

pap. 4"Fr. 196. Albertus 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. 4In a blak cover with clasps.\Bodl. MS. Digby 119. /. Deeus 1581.]Fr. 197. Ludus astronomicus. pap. 8

Fr. 198. Parisiensis (marg. forte loh:) liber cuius init. est Augustinus decivitate Dei etc. pap. 4

[C.C.C. Oxford 231.]Fr. 199. Pomum Ambrae | Trotulae de ornatu mulierum | Ascarus Philo-sophus de signis mulierum | De secretis mulierum cum aliisexperimentis | Theophilus Monachus de coloribus | Eracliusde coloribus et artibus Roman.

| Quaedam experimenta medicacum aliis superstitiosis | Compositio et usus astrolabii una cumaliis. Perg- 8\Cf. Brit. Mus. Egerton 823, 840* {formerly Trin. Coll. Camb.R. 15. 15). From St. Aug. Cant. no. 1599. Their contentscorrespond to Arts. 5 sqq. ofthe above list.]

[Among the printed bocks, under the title Chemici Libri etc. com-pacti, occur these manuscripts^200. Ramundi Lulii ars generalis cum quaestionibus eiusdem j Demedi(ci)na et astronomia eiusdem | Speculum medicinae. 4


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Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John *Dee 35201. Ramundi Lulii ars magna cum figuris | Eiusd. ars generalis cum

quaestionibus | Eiusd. introductorium sive canones artis gene-ralis

| Eiusd. de principiis et medicinae gradibus | Eiusd. deregiminibus sanitatis et infirmitatis. f[C.C.C. Oxford 247. Has the ladder-mark and the name ofP. 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 cometo 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,and do not occur in the Catalogue, I have noted the followingin various collections : but I have little doubt that the list isincomplete.Helmingham Hall, Suffolk. Lord Tollemache's Library.The Lauderdale MS. of Alfred's Orosius is recorded to have belonged

to Dee, but his name is not to be found in it.Lambeth Library.598, pt. III. Creton's poem on the deposition of Richard II has thenote ' John Dee 1575 gave for this boke a boke of the foundation of

(blank) in Oxfordshire '.London, British Museum.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 (= Tiffin) 1730.R. Farmer.

It contains some fourteen alchemical tracts, of which the first are1. Tract. Nicholai Comitis.2. Summa Platonis.3. Speculum Alkimie Rog. Baconis.And the last is : Dialogus inter Naturam et filium philosophic.

Oxford, Bodleian Library.Ashmole 1451, pt. II, a paper MS. of 66 ff. in English and Latin,

of alchemical tracts mostly by Brixham with marginalia by Dee,C 2


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36 Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee1 492, pt. I, a paper MS. of 6 ff. lo. 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 Twyne belonged to Dee.Oxford, Corpus Christi College.

65. Tacuinus, from Twyne, has some notes of accounts, perhaps inDee's hand.1 01. Ptolemy, etc., has a note on f. i by Dee (?) and at the end a letterof Casimir of Poland to Cracow University.127, 128. From Twyne; bound together: Bacon de erroribus medi-corum and some alchemical tracts : may be Dee's, but have not

his hand in them.1 34. Life of St. Oswin ; from Twyne : marked y. ; but belonged toSavile of Banke.136. Collectanea Alchemica, Latin and English; belonged to Dee in

1559-144. Astronomica, Alanus de Insula, G. Vinsauf: from Twyne.Came from Tynemouth Priory (as also 134).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.153. lo. Dastin, etc. : from Twyne.185 has the ladder-mark and apparently Dee's hand on the verso ofa fragment of a will at the end. Contents alchemical.191 is Dee's note-book : see above.223 has the ladder-mark. Bacon, Urso, etc.226. Marbod, etc., partly by the scribe of 227 (see above, no. 169):has a note 'Receyved at Manchester by Col. Arnold fromMistres Marie Nevel 1597 ^ec- *7 '237. Life of S. Katherine, etc., in English verse : has the ladder-mark.238. Alchemical (Rosarium, Ortolanus, Morienus, etc.).242. Lydgate's Fall of Princes : ladder-mark.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.


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LIST OF MANUSCRIPTS NOTICEDThe sign vac. means that the MS. in question is not in Dee's own catalogue,

but in the supplementary list which follows it.

CambridgeUniversity Library

Ee. 4. 31 =51?Colleges

Gonville and Cams456 = 104?

MagdalenePepys 1207 = 41

2329 = 91Peterhouse

Lost =37St. John's12 = Il8, 122160= 168

171 = 1 60TrinityO. 2. 14 = 39?

O. 2. 47 = 79O. 2. 50 = 3O. 7. 23 = 34O. 7. 35 = '88O. 8. 6 = 180O. 8. 30= 148R. 15. 15, see on 199

CheltenhamPhillipps 16345 = 13

CracowUniversity, 47 given to.

DublinTrinity College"5 = 733i = 38360 = 128371, cf. 80381, cf. 23403 = !57425, cf. 17244i = 137444 = 139448, cf. 75492, cf. 60506, cf. 105, 150lost= 138

GlasgowHunter U. 4. 11 = 4

HelminghamNo number vac.Lambeth

67 = 114522 = 70?598 in vac.London

British MuseumCotton

Julius A. vi, cf. 133Tiberius B. ix, cf. 72C. v = 26


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38 List of Manuscripts noticedBritish Museum : Cotton (contd.)

Claudius B. ix = 92D. x, see PrefaceGalba E. iv (ii) =144E. vii = 25Vitellius E. xviii, cf. 133Vespasian A. ii = 44 and A. 15A. x = 10

B. x = 9E. Hi, cf. 173Domitian I = 94Cleopatra B. i, cf. 113C. ix = 156

Egerion 823, 84Oa = 199Harley i = 20

3 = 3i200 = 69536 = 55

Royal 7 D. ii = 16612 B. xxii = 14315 B. ix = 74

Sloane 2128 = 1842325 vac.

Siowe 1070 vac.Manchester

Chetham A. 5. 24, cf. 19Oxford

Bodleian LibraryAshmole 191 n= 187

341 = 194369 = 155424 = 97847 = 521384= 178?1451 ii vac.1471 = 241492 i vac.

Barlow 2 = no?

Digby 71 = 8476 = 181 ?77 = 61 ?104, cf. 1 86119 196174 = 100178 = i, 29192 vac.218 vac.

Laud Misc. 40 = 173Rawlinson C. 7 = 30Savile 15 = 10818 = 5

19 = 82?55 = M5Selden gr. 20, 22 = 43

supra 94 = 19Colleges

Corpus Christi 41 = 1455 = 10365 vac.101 vac.in = 146118 = 142124 = 46?125 = 33127, 128 vac.130 = 12134 vac.'35 = 183136 vac.137 = 141138 = 78144 vac.148 vac.149 = 56150 = 83151 = 99152 vac.153 vac.183 H = 76


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List of Manuscripts noticed 39Oxford : Corpus Christi {conld.)

185 vac.189 = 8191 vac.221 = 158222 = 176223 vac.224 = 167225 =6226 vac.227 = 169228 = 162, 163230 = 73231 = 198232, cf. 70233= i53234 = i35235 = 7i236 = 85237, 238 vac.239, cf. 152242 vac.243= "7244, cf. 67245= "247 = 2OI248 = 87249 = 90

Oxford : Corpus Christi (contd!)250 vac.251 = 151252 vac.254, artt. 7, 8, cf. 19, 58276 vac.277 = 193278 vac.279, cf. 60283 = '36290 vac.293 = 40, 123, 132

Magdalen 32 = 59?New College 166, 167, cf. 164Queen's 307 = 121borrowed from 109

ParisBibl. Mazarine 1271 = 27

RomeVatican Regin. 1151, cf. 95

1 161, cf. 181Sotheby's

Sale 17 Nov. 1902lot 1 60 = 66


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ADDITIONAL NOTEDee's own account of the pillage of his library, and of its

value, is to be found in the ' briefe note and abstract ' ofhis career (drawn up in 1592) which is printed by Hearnein Joh. Glastoniensis (II. 500). Here, on p. 529, we read :

' The divers bookes of my late library, printed & anciently written,bound & unbound, were in all near 4000 : the fourth part of which werethe written bookes.' He values them at 2,000. 'And, to make thisvaluation probable unto your Honour, behold yet here these four writtenbookes, one in Greek, this great volumn ; two in French ; and this in HighDutch. They cost me and my friends for me 533lib< . . . What is then tobe thought of the value of some one hundred of the best of all the otherwritten bookes, of which some were the autographa of excellent & seldomeheard-of Authors? The furniture of the said library was of my gettingtogether in above 40 yeares time from divers places beyond the seas, &some by my great search and labour gotten here in England '. He thengives some account of his mathematical instruments, and of two collectionsof Irish and Welsh deeds (the latter, apparently, rescued from a half-ruinedchurch). On p. 534 he values his lost books (above 500) ' I mean such asmay be gotten for money' at above 150.

I cannot tell what the four MSS. were which he producedas a sample ; but the price paid for them is enormous ; andthe catalogue of the MSS. shows that in 1583 he did notpossess much over 200 MSS., whereas here he reckons themat 1,000. I doubt if we can trust his figures ; but the extractdeserves to be quoted, and the * abstract

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