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.8 iJ?I.!.9.9.!:..9..P.D.Y A.'--._----Printed_._._---Books......-.._.__.._- I.------ John-----Dee-- II.- Before---1800 III._._- -- After._.._--_1800..._._---- A principal purpose of thj~ bibliography is to provide full details of works usually referred to by short titles in the notes. Consequently, most of such works as have been cited on only one occasion are not included here, and a full reference has been given on citation. Similarly, group$ of works consulted • upon specialised topics discussed in particular passages but not thereafter recurred to are not listed here, but full details are given in the notes to the appropriate sections of the text (as e.g., works on Alkindi or Urso, in Ch_ 5, n. 223, 248). Again it has not been thought necessary to attempt to include the many works profitably examined but to which there has been no occasion to rnake dil-ect l-eference. Another object is to list those works containing information 01- comment upon Dee personally. All these have been indicated by a prefatory capital delta, the sign Dee employed as a personal monogram. ,Omissions here--apart from oversight and sheer ignorance--fall into a number of categories: 1. TI10se in which Dee's name OCCLJrs in a strong of incidentally ~it.ed names of Elizabethan figures (e.9., as G.N. Clark, Science Ann Sncial (~h"dfAre in the Age nf Nel.lton, nxfor<l, 1937). ? . Those whieh c <3 sua 11 y mP. n t. ion [) e e j n P <3 S sing, wit h 0 u t. significant direct comment, to illlJstrRte some point for which the name of almost any contemporary would have served equally well (e.g., as Bentham, (~Iorks, Vol. 8, 1843; but vide supra Ch. 2, n. 36). 3. Those in which Dee's name appears in some personally irrelevant relation, i.e., bare mentions of him as an ancestor of his descendants etc. (e.g., J.P. Malcolm, Londinillm Redivivum, London, Vol. I, 1802, p. 72: a note of the burial in 1617 at St. mary at Axe, of "John Dee, sonne of Mr. John Dee ... "). 4. Such works as contain only information taken from earlier works, included on this list, unaccompanied by fresh comment. (E.g., the references in Dover Wilson's Introduction, p. xlv et seq to the New Cambridge Shakespeare's Richarrl II, Cambridge, 1939, which are covered by this bibliography's inclusion of Holmshed's Chronicles, 1577, and Webb's introduction to A French Metrical Romance in Arctlaeologia , 1921.) 5. Catalogues which list without comment, printed works by Dee . .. (e.g., F. Leigi', Gardner, Catalo9llB Ra..i.sonne or t~/or'l<s on Occul t 818 • Sciences, London, 1903, Vol. I, Rosicurcianism. Vol. III, Astrology) and in general, similar ones listing MSS. 6. Lastly no very careful or systematic attempt has been made to dredge through the proliferous ephemera of modern occultism despite its constant talismanic invocation of Dee's name. (E.g., there is no mention of the numerous references to Dee in the early numbers of Zadkiel's Almanac, though on "Zadkiel's" own interest in Dee vide SIJpra ch. 2.) No strict separation into "primary" and "secondary" sources proved possible, but a rough approximation to this is reflected by the division of books, apart from such as contain original writings by Dee himself, according to their date of composition, irrespective of the edition used, into the two classes before and after 1800. In such cases as the Publications of the Chetham Society, in which Dee is frequently mentioned since these are chiefly devoted to documents in some way concerning the history of Manchester, the division has, of necessity, been somewhat arbitrary. If the original texts there printed contain significant infornlation about Dee, they have been placed in the first class; where Dee is principally a subject of.editorial \ comment, in the second. 819 BIBLIOGRAPHY PT. I--JOHN DEE Preliminary Note--Iconography: One authentic portrait of Dee exists, it was exhibited in the National Portrait Exhibition 1866, and is at pl-esent in the Ashmolean Collection, Oxford. Ephemeris Anni 1557 currentis juxta Copernici et Reinholdi Canones fidelitur per Joannem Feild Anglum. Adjecta est ...epistola J.D. qlJa vulgares istos Ephemeridum fictores ...repreheridit. London, 1556. _ __ _ _ - __._ __-_._ -..-. J. D .... de praest.antior i bus quihusdam Nat.lJrae virtlJtibus Londoni 1558. (Two eds. this year. One in same volume with similar works; see under LeOlAlitz, Revised, London, 1568.) ------._---_--_. __._... _...._.--------___...__.._._.....__.___._-_._...._.._-___.._-_.._--_._..__ ..____.-_.____.._-. - The Grounde of Artes. Now of late overseen and augmented with net.,,) necessarie additions. 1.0. London, 1561. (Many subseqlJent eds. see Ch. VI.) • • hm __ . _ , ... Monas Hieroglyphica, Antwerpiae, 1564. (Reprirlted in Lazarus Zetzner: Theatrum Chemicum. Argentor'ati 1.613 seq. Vol. II and 1659-1661 ed.; "trdnslated" with notes irl Initiation, Paris, Nos. 8, 9, 12, 1893, by "Philopote~'''; tl-anslated, Guillaume de Givry, Paris, 1925; I.W. Hamilton-Jones, London, 1947.) ..............._- _. __•...••..•................._._ __..__.__ _ _- De Superficierum Divisionibl.Js, liber Machometo Ragdedino ascriptus nunc primum J. Dee et F. Commandini ...opera in lucem editus. F. Commandini de eadem re libellus. Pesauri 1570. (With pref. letter by Dee.) (Trans. Ital. by F. Viarli de'Malate~ti, Pisa, 1570; trans. Eng.--with Dee's letter in Leeke and Serle's Euclid, London, 1561; reprinted 8ibliotheca Calogeriana according to Dennison, Memoirs of L/rbino, II, p. 261. The ref. to Vol. XIX is incorrect; examination of the series ad. by Calogeria, OPllscllli filosofie mathematici, Vene7ia, 1714 et seq fails tC) reveal a reprint--see also 8.6, Pt. 2, Euclid, Book on the Division of FiolJrAS,- ThA FJernents of Geometrie of thp most alJnr:-ipnt Philosopher Fucl idA of Megara. Fa i t.hflJ 11 y (not.,,) fi rst) translat.ed int.o t.he Englishe toung, by H. Bil]ingsley, Citizen of London ....With a very fruitfull Praeface made by M.I. Dee, specifying the chiefe Mathematicall Sciences, what they are, and whereunto commodious: where, also, are disclosed cert.aine new Secrets Mathematicall and 820 Mechanicall, untill these our daies, greatly missed. London, 1570. Parallaticae Commentationes Praxeosque Nucleus quidam Londini 1573. General and rare memorials pertayning to the perfecte Arte of Navigation, London, 1577. (Extracts in Hearne: Johannis Glast ....Chronica, 1726 vide infra; Al/tobiog= Tracts, Chetham Soc. 1851, vide infra and Arber, An English Garner, Vol. 2, London, 1877; repr. 1903). A triple Almanac for the yeare of our Lord God 1591 ...A , Prognostication for the same year ....J.D. London, 1590. The Compound of Alchemy set fourth by Ralph Rabbards. London 1591 (pref. verses by Dee). Egluryn Phraethineb. Sebh, Dasparth ar Retoreg. (by Henry Perry), London, 1595 (pref. verse by Dee). A letter containing a most brief Discourse Apologeticall with a demonstration and protestation for the Course of t~e Philosophical Studies and Exercises of a certaine studioLJS Gentleman. London, 1599. (Reissued London, 1603: repro AutnhingrRphJr.Rl TrRcts, 1RS1 \/. infrA.) To the King's most ~xcelJent. Majesty ....(Broadsheet), London, 1604. To the Honorable Assemblee of the Commons in the present Parliament ....(Broadsheet). London, 1604. Epistola R.Baconis de Secretis operibus artis et natLlrae opera J.D. castigata olim ....cum notis ... ipsius J.D. Hamburg, 1618 (reprinted F. Rothscholtz, DelJtsche Theatrl/m Chemicl/m, Theil. 3, Nurnberg, 1728, see also Bacon). Theatrum Chemicum Brittannicum (ed. Elias Ashmole), London, 1652 (contains Dee's verse letter to Gwynne). A True and Faithful Relation of what passed for many years between Dr. John Dee ...and some spirits ... [ed.] with a preface confirming the reality (as to the point of Spirits) of this relation ...by M. Casaubon, London, 1659. Johannis ...Glastoniensis Chronica (ed. Hearne) Vol. 2, Oxford, 1726 (contains Dee's supplication to Mary, reprinted Autobiog. Tracts, vide infra; extracts from MS Farnous and Rich Discoveries etc. ). 821 • The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee and the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts, ed. J.O. Halliwell, Camden Soc. Pub. XIX, 1842. Original letters of Eminent Literary men of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries (ed. Sir Henry Ellis). Camden Soc. Pub. 1843 (Letter of Dee to Burleigh). Autobiographical Tracts of John Dee. Ed. Crossley in chetham Misc. T, Chetham Soc. Pub. 24, 1851. (Compendious Rehearsall, SlJpplic. to Mary, Preface G.R.M., DiscolJrse Apologeticall.) Philobiblon Society Historical Miscellany T, 1854 (contains Dee's letter to Burleigh, 1563, ed. R.W. Gray. Reprinted N.Q.V., II, 1879, pp. 401-402, 422-423, ed. F. Bailey). Diary for 1595-1601, ed. J.E. Bailey (Privately Printed) 1880. List of Manuscripts formerly owned by Dr. John Dee. M.R. James. Supp. Bib. Soc. Trans. No.1, 1921. • 822 • BIBLIOGRAPHY PART II--BEFORE 1800 Acta Eruditorum April 1707 Leipsic (Account of Smith's Vitae Quonmdom Eruditissimorum), p. 148 seq. Acta Eruditorum April 1729 Leipsic (Account of Hearne's Johannis ...Glastoniensis Chronica) p. 181 seq. Adelung, J.C., Geschichte der menschlichen Narrheit, oder Lebensbeschreibungen beruhmter Schwarzkunstler, Goldmacher, Teufelsbanner ...llnd anderer philosophischer Unholden ...Leipsig 1785-J789. • AgricolR Georgills: De Re Metallica. Trans. H.C. and L.H. Hoover, London, J 9J 2. Agrippa CornelilJs: de OcclJltA PhiJosophia etc. per Beringos Frat.res. 1600 (?). Of the Vanitie and Vncertaintie of the Arts and Sciences, trans. J. Sandford, London, 1569. Alberti L.B.: The Architecture of ...of Painting ...and of Statuary tl'ans C. Bartoli and J. Leoni, London, 1753. (A marginalia R.C.P.