RENAISSANCE MAN:

The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700

Series One The Books and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608

Parts 4 to 6: John Dee's Annotated Books from the Library of the Royal College of Physicians, London

Contents of Reels - Part 5

D99/3, 10e (313)
Bound in this volume are 6 items, no:3 of these is Roberts & Watson Catalogue number 313:

1a. Lupeii Annotationes in Omnia Opera Galeni. Alfonsus Lupeius. (1548).

1b. Naturae Querimonia (Caesar Augustae 1565). Alfonsus Lupeius.

2. Lupius. De Re Medica. (Pompelone 1586). Alfonsus Lupeius.

3. Lucas Gauricus de diebus decretorijs. f°. Romae. 1546. Gauricus, Lucas, De diebus criticis, (Rome, 1546). The title page reads: “Gauricus. De Diebus Decretoriis. (Rome 1546).” Lucae Gavrici.

4a. Germani. Alle Figure Anathomiche (Naples 1625). Gio: Germano Fracese.

4b. Dell’ Eccellenza del Microcosmo col suo discorso anatomico. nd.

Manuscripts

The reference in brackets at the end of each manuscript entry is the Roberts & Watson Catalogue number or page reference.

REEL 69

MSS 390 (M89 ?)
ASHENDEN, John, Summa de accidentibus mundi, 1347-1348, (Venice 1489). Written on vellum in double columns. This manuscript item possibly belonged to John Dee.

MSS 398 (M121ii)
HIGDEN, Ranulf, Polychronicon. A chronicle of England beginning with Julius Caesar and ending with the year 1333. (14th century). Written on vellum. This manuscript item probably belonged to Nicholas Saunder and perhaps, before that to John Dee. John Dee’s hand is on folio 84.

MSS 404 (p.70 n.7)

BOOK OF HOURS. (14th century) Illuminated manuscript written on vellum. (Please see Roberts & Watson, especially p.70 n.7, and also pp50-52 of their Introduction, for explanation of the connection between manuscripts and printed books in the possession of Nicholas Saunder and those belonging to John Dee). This item is signed by Nicholas Saunder, Papal Legate during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.

REEL 70

MSS 409 (p.70 n.7)
THE WILTON PSALTER. Written, probably at Salisbury, for use at Wilton Abbey, (c1250). Illuminated manuscript. The principal contents include a Discourse in French on the Pater Noster, the Wilton Kalendar, the Psalter, Canticles, the Wilton Litany, numerous Collects, Commendatio animarum, Office of the Dead, Psalms, Anthems and Prayers to be said at and before the burial of a corpse. The decoration is elaborate and features twelve roundels in the Kalendar of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Occupations of the Months, two large historiated initials to Psalms 26 and 52, a small historiated initial to every Psalm,
a great variety of line-endings including some patterns of birds and dragons. The magnificent miniature to Psalm 52 represents David arguing with a fool. On the fly leaf is the following note: “This was my great grandmother’s fathers booke, and therefore for the antiquityes sake, I keepe it. Nich. Saunder.”
(Please see Roberts & Watson, especially p.70 n.7. It is possible that this item may have belonged to John Dee before it came into the possesion of Nicholas Saunder. E G Millar, in discussing two manuscripts, MSS 404 and 409, which had belonged to the Saunder family, noted the connection between Saunder’s printed books and Dee’s. See Bulletin de la Société française de manuscripts à peintures iv, no.2 ,1914-1920, pp.81-149).

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