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RENAISSANCE MAN: The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars: 1450-1700
Series One: The Books and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608


Part 1: John Dee’s Manuscripts from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

SUPPORTING COMMENTS

 

“The Renaissance Man project is an exciting development which will prove of inestimable value to scholars of the Renaissance concerned with the circulation of texts and the uses made of them, with printing and publishing history, or with the intellectual background of individual scholars.”

Dr Elisabeth Leedham-Green

Cambridge University Library

 

“There are few seventeenth-century figures of whom it can be said that the books they had owned and written were almost immediately studied not only in England and in Western Europe but in Russia and America.  That could be said of John Dee in 1630 and the attention that he commanded then is no less widespread today.”

Julian Roberts and Andrew Watson

writing in John Dee’s Library Catalogue

(Bibliographical Society, London, 1990)

“The whole Renaissance is in this library.”

Frances Yates

describing Dee’s Library in Theatre of the World

(London, 1969)

“When it was catalogued in 1583 Dee’s Library was Elizabethan England’s largest and - for scientific subjects at least - most valuable collection of books and manuscripts.  ... The collection was the result of extraordinary commitment and energy in the preservation, collection and management of textual information and as such it is central to an appreciation of both Dee’s life and the period in which he lived.  It is not only a monument to Dee’s scholarly interests and achievements; it is one of the great monuments of English Renaissance culture.”

Dr William H Sherman

writing in ‘A Living Library’:

The Readings and Writings of John Dee

(PhD thesis, Cambridge, 1991)

“These projects will be of immense benefit to Renaissance scholars.  To start making known through Private Libraries in Renaissance England the contents of libraries belonging to individual people and then, by contemplenting this series through Renaissance Man, to make available copies of the more significant books and manuscripts owned by certain well-known people, is a marvellous  service.”

Laetitia Yeandle

Curator of Manuscripts

Folger Shakespeare Library

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