RENAISSANCE MAN

THE RECONSTRUCTED LIBRARIES OF EUROPEAN SCHOLARS, 1450-1700

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

Part 3: John Dee's Manuscripts and Annotated Books from Cambridge University Library, London

Detailed Listing

The listing is based upon John Dee’s Library Catalogue edited by Julian Roberts & Andrew G Watson, The London Bibliographical Society, 1990.The first reference is the CUL shelfmark for manuscript or printed material, eg MS Ff.6.50 for manuscripts, and N*.8.25 (C) for printed material.The second reference is the item number in the Roberts and Watson listing based upon John Dee’s Library Catalogue, eg (RW. DM1a) for manuscripts, and (RW. 122) for printed material.The bold type for printed books is the direct transcription from John Dee’s Library Catalogue.The italic type for printed books is the modern equivalent of the title.

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MS Ff.6.50  (RW. DM1a)

John of Vienna

Speculum elementorum

Rasis

Alchimia

Rasis

Flores secretorum; Interrogationes Uthesiae ad Mariam

Roger Bacon

De secretis naturae

Democritus

Secretum super corpus spiritum et animum

Mirer

Senior

Alphidius

‘Scito fili quod hunc librum tibi scripsi’

Hermes

De sex rerum principiis; Khalid rex et Morienus Romanus

Hermes

Liber gratiae

Ps. Avicenna

Declaratio lapidis filio suo Aboali; Turba philosophorum (extracta by  Johannes Salernitatus?)

Ps. Albertus Magnus

Semita recta; De aquis albis et rubeis; Liber 12 aquarum; Documenta Pictagore

J. Dastin

Rosarius philosophorum.

Parchment and paper, s.xv.

Marginal notes almost certainly in Dee’s hand, and certainly in the same hand as other manuscripts associated with Dee. Given to Cambridge University Library by John Rant, olim Collegii Gonville et Caij socius dignissimus, in 1655, and probably in his binding.

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N*.8.25 (C)  (RW. 122)

Averrhois destructio destructionum  lat:  fo.  ven. 1527

1. Averroes

Liber qui dicitur destructio destructionum philosophie Algazelis [&c].  Preceded by Libellus seu epistola de connexione intellectus abstracti cum homine.  fº.  Venetijs, in edibus Jo. Baptiste pederzani (per Bernardinum de Vitalibus, 17 Nouembris 1526) 1527

Adams A2311

Signed:  Johannes Deëus  1553  martio.  Londini

No annotations

2. Kalonymos ben Kalonymos

Liber de mundi creatione physicis rationibus probata.

fº. (Venetiis, per Bernardinum deVitalibus, 1527)

Adams K2

Scattered annotations up to the beginning of book 3, chapter 4.

Later in Richard Holdsworth’s library.

Contemporary plain calf binding; no fore-edge title.

H*.1.10 (B)  (RW. 223)

Henrici Harphij Theologia mystica  fo.  Coloniæ. 1556

Henricus Herpf

Theologiæ mysticæ libri tres.  fº. Coloniae Agrippinae,

apud hæredes Arnoldi Birckmanni, 1556

Adams H435

Signed:  Johannes Dee.  1569

Copious underlinings and marginal notes.

Later in Richard Holdsworth’s library.

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H*.8.22 (C)  (RW. 271)

Dionysius Areopagita de mystica Theologia, cum commentarijs Jo. Eckij  fo. Augustæ vindel. 1515 [sic]

Dionysius

Areopagita, De mystica theologia lib. 1. (Augustae Vindelicorum, in officina Ioannis Miller, 25 Maij 1519.)

Adams D530

Signed:  Johannes Deeus  1553 Septemb: Vltimo Londini; with the further signature of P. Saunders.

Sparingly annotated; pastedowns from what appears to be a fourteenth century biblical commentary.

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Adams also lists (D526) the edition of Dionysius Areopagita’s Coelestis hierarchia.  Ecclesiastica hierarchia.  Diuina nomina.  Mystica theologia. Duodecim epistolae [in effect the Opera]. Cum scolijs I. Fabri Stapulensis, 8º. Venetiis, in vico Sanctae Mariae formosae, Ad signum Spei, 1556, at Magdalene College bearing the inscription:  Johannes Dee 1557. Augusto mense. Londini.

R*.3.12 (C)  (RW. 314)

Schepperij assertio adversus astrologos  fo.  colon.

Cornelius Duplicius Scepper

Adversus falsos [sic] quorundam astrologorum augurationes assertio.  Libri sex. fº.

Coloniae Agrippinae, impensis viduæ Arnoldi Birckmanni.

1547 (1548)

Adams S615

Signed: Johannes Dee

No annotations

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P*.9.20 (C)  (RW. 315)

Amadei Meygreti Lugdunensis quæstiones in Aristotelis Libros de generatione & corruptione  fo.  paris  1519

Amadeus Meigret

Questiones in libros de generatione & corruptione Aristotelis. fº. [Paris] Venundantur a Ionne de prato in vico olearum sub intersigno sancti Sebastiani prope Collegium Clun[iacorum] (1519)

Adams M1043

Signed: Johannes Dee.  1556.  21 febr.  Londini

Very few underlinings and marginal sigla

Binding: contemporary vellum, titled on spine, probably by Dee.

Dd*.3.18(1) (E)  (RW. 410)

Nicolai Scutellij, vita Pythagoræ ex Iamblicho collecta.  4o.  Romæ. 1556

Iamblichus

Pythagorae vita ex Iamblicho collecta per Nicolaum Scutellium. 4º. Romae, Vincentius Luchrinus excudebat, 1556

Adams I6

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1557.  Martio mense.

A few underlinings and marginal notes.

Of the seven remaining items bound together in Dd*.3.18 some are too late to have belonged to Dee, and none have any indication that they could have been his.

R*.4.232 (D)  (RW. 421)

Albumasar de Magnis conjunctionibus, annorum revolutionibus ac eorum profectionius  4o.  ven. 1515

Albumazar

De magnis coniunctionibus: annorum reuolutionibus: ac eorum profectionibus: octo continens tractatus. 4º.

(Venetijs, mandato & expensis Melchiorem [sic] Sessa, per Iacobus pentium de Leucho, Pridie kal’. Junij 1515)

Adams A566

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1552

Annotations on A7 and E3-4 only

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R*.4.231 (D)  (RW. 446)

Albumasaris introductorium in astronomiam.  4o.  ven.  1506

Albumaza

Introductorium in astronomiam ... octo continens libros partiales. 4º. (Ventijs, mandato & expensis Melchionis [sic]. Sessa per Jacobum pentium Leucensem, 5 Sept. 1506)

Adams A567

Not signed and perhaps not Dee’s, a very few annotations in a hand similar to Dee’s.  Doodles on woodblock on title-page.

F*.11.16 (D)  (RW. 454)

Alberti Marchesij, cæliloquij moralis, libri septem.  4o.  Bononiæ.  1529

Albertus de Marchesiis

Coeliloquim morale. 4º. (Bononie, in aedibus Joannis Baptistæ de Phællis Bonon: 20 Maii. 1529)

Adams M540

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1550 parisiis; later Richard Holdsworth’s.

Few underlinings, mostly in prefatory material.  Once cross-reference noted on endpaper.

Contemporary (French?) calf binding.

Fore-edge:  ‘Cæliloquium’, in Dee’s hand.

M*.5.49 (D)  (RW. 468)

Pomponius Gauricus de sculptura &c.  4o.  Norib.

Pomponius Gauricus

De sculptura. 4º. Norimbergae, apud Iohan.

Petreium [1542]

Adams G294

The ‘&c’, viz. the Aeglogae, are missing from this copy.

Signed:  Johannes Dee 1550  Lovanij

Annotations are clustered in parts of ‘Symmetria’ and much of ‘Perspectiva’ and ‘Chimice’.  A note, ‘J.D. 1557. 8 Augusti’ on the end-paper gives instructions for making and polishing steel glass.

Later in Richard Holdsworth’s library.

N*.10.27 (D)  (RW. 482)

Thomas philologus de vita hominis ultra centum viginti annos protrahenda. 4o.  ven.  1553

Thomas Philologus

of Ravenna, De vita hominis vltra cxx. annos protrahenda. 4º. Venetijs, cum priuilegio Cardinalis de Monte Auspicii.  1553

Adams P1037

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1556. 10 Martii. ‘    Anno 1563. Hic Author mihi familiaris fuit Venetijs.’

A few other annotations between fols. 106-111.

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U.3.59  (RW. 502)

Diogenes Laërtius græcè  4o.  froben.  1533

Diogenes Laeterius

Laertius De uitis, decretis, & responsis celebrium philosophorum libri decem. Ed. H. Froben & N. Episcopius. 4º. Basileae (  ) 1533

Adams D481

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1550 parisiis; later in John Moore’s library.

Annotated only on title-page and p.233

Binding: calf, probably 17th-century

O*.4.36 (D)   (RW. 552)

Joh. voerthusij Academiæ veteris & novæ Legatio 4o. francoforti   1563

Johannes Voerthusius

Academiae veteris et nouae ad Maximilianum Austrium II, in coronatione Francofurtensi gratulationis ergo legatio. 4º. Francofurti, per (ex officina) Ludouicum Lucium, 1563

(Mar. 1573)

Adams V995

Signed:  Johannes Dee:  ‘quem alii Di, alii Dij, alii me Dyæum nominant, ex mala nominis cognitione.  1573. Novemb. 30’, with a reference to page 24 where he is listed as ‘Dyæum Britannum Medicum & Mathematicum’.

Against this passage Dee has written ‘Johannes Dee, Londinensis; natus anno 1528 {... illegible, ?vel} 1527. Julij 13.

There are few other annotations but against the name of Nicolaus Grudius Nicolaius, scribe, or perhaps limner (grapheus) to the Order of the Golden Fleece, is ‘Amicus meus ut ex epistolis apparet’.

Later in Richard Holdsworth’s library.

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Inc.4.D.2.17 (2700)   (RW. 569)

Joh. Ganiveti Amicus medicorum.  4o.  Lugd.  1496

Johannes Ganivetus

Amicus medicorum. 4º. Lyons, Johann Trechsel, 1496

Oates 3219; BM VIII 299; Hain 7467

Signed:  Johannes Dee  parisijs  1550, ex dono amici sui D. Jacobi

Goupyli medici praeclarissimi.

Very few annotations, and scarcely fewer underlinings.

Received from the bequest of Richard Holdsworth, master of Emmanuel, 1664.

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H*.4.32 (D)  (RW. 582)

Spiritus Roteri contra astrologis, libri duo.  4o. Tholosæ 1555

Spiritus Roterus

 In praefatores prognostiquosque futurorum euentuum, diuinatricemque Astrologiam libri duo. 4º. Tolosae, e typographia Iacobi Colomerii. 1555

Adams R822

Signed:  Jo. Dee  1557  Martij 14.  Londini.

No annotations.

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Dd*.3.326 (E)  (RW. 583)

Caroli Bovilli supputatio septem mundi ætatum  4°.  paris: 1520

Carolus Bovillus

Aetatum mundi supputatio. 4º. [Paris] venundantur

Iodoco Badio Ascensio (1520)

Adams B2610

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1554  Novemb.  10 Londini; later ownership signature of P. Saunders.

Several annotations and underlinings, not all of them by Dee.

Dee’s catalogue shows that this book was, when in his library, bound with Bovillus’ Responsiones ad nouuem quæsita Nicolai Paxii, 4º. (Paris) vænundantur cum superiori opusculo Iodoco Badio.  This is not now found with Dee’s copy of the Sapputatio.

R*.5.21 (E)  (RW. 631)

Leovitius de conjunctionibus Magnis &c  4o.  Laugingæ  1564

Cyprianus Leovitius

De coniunctionibus magnis insignioribus superiorum planetarum, solis defectionibus, & cometis, in quarta monarchia, cum eorundem effectuum historica expositione.  His ad calcem accessit prognosticon ab Anno domini 1564 in viginti sequentes annos. 4º. Laugingae ad Danubium, excudebat Emanuel Salczer, 1564

Adams L518

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1564, with later ownership signature of P. Saunders.

Underlinings and marginal notes in cluster; many of them in the Prognosticon.

Dd*.4.511 (E)  (RW. 678)

Trithemius de septem secundeis  4o.  francof: 1545

Johannes Trithemius

De septem Secundeis, id est, intelligentiis, siue spiritibus orbes post deum moventibus. 4º. Francoforti, apud Cyriacum Iacobum [1545]

Adams T974

Signed:  Johannes Dee

Notes, including notes on Dee’s own observations, on recto and verso of title-page and numerous underlinings.  Marginal notes quite probably lost through savage trimming.

L*.6.60 (F)  (RW. 856)

Achillis p. Gassari Epitome historiarum & chronicorum mundi.  8o.  Lugduni

Achilles Pirminius Gasser

Epitome historiarum & chronicorum mundi.  8º. Lugduni, pro Antonio Constantino, excudebat Sulpitius Sapidus [c. 1540]

Adams G267

Signature of P. Saunders.

A few underlinings and annotations probably in Dee’s hand.

H*.15.9 (F) (RW. 897)

Joh. Trithemij libellus octo quæstionum  8o.  col. 1534

Johannes Trithemius

Liber octo quæstionum quas illi dissoluendas proposuit Maximilianus Caesar. Colonia, impensis Melchioris Nouesiani. 1534

Adams T978

Signed:  Johannes Dee 1561, with later signature of P.Saunders, 1608

Copious annotations to questions 3 (De miraculis infidelium), 4 (De sacra scriptura), 5 (De reprobis atque maleficiis), 6 (De potestate maleficarum) and 7 (De permissione diuina).

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R*.5.35 (F)  (RW. 901)

Proclus in ptolomæi quadripartitum  græcè  8o.  Bas.

Proclus

Diadochus,

Paraphrasis in quatuor Ptolemæi libros de siderum effectionibus.  Cum præfatione Philippi Melanchthonis. 8º. Basileae, apud Ioannem Oporinum [1554].

Adams P2140

Signed:  Joannes Dee.  1555.  14 Dec.

No annotations.

Contemporary, or slightly later, binding; calf, with a double frame, the inner with flowers at the corners.  Holes for tapes on fore-edges.  Fore-edge inscription now illegible from trimming.

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LE.19.82 (RW. 978)

Jacobi Gohorij de usu & mysterijs Notarum liber, in quo vetusta literarum & numerorum ac divinorum ex Sibylla nominum ratio explicatur.  8o  parisijs  1550

Jacques Gohory

De vsu & mysteriis notarum liber. 8º. Parisiis, vaeneunt ... apud Vincentium Sertenas, 1550

Adams G825

Signed:  Johannes Dee  1562  Antwerpie  Januarij die 20

Copiously annotated

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Dd*.5.193 (F)  (RW. 1138)

Hermolai Barbari compendium naturalis philosophiæ  8o.  paris.  1547

Hermolaus Barbarus

Compendium scientiæ naturalis, ex Aristotele. 8º. [Paris] apud Ioannem Roigny, via ad D. Iacobum, sub Basilico, & quatuor elementis, 1547

Adams B173

Signed:  Johannes dee, 1547  octob. 10

No annotations

R*.5.34b (F)  (RW. 1185)

J. Morshemij de predictionibus astrologicis, Themata  8o.  oporin. 1559

Mercurius Morsshemius

Explicatio gravis et eruditæ cuiusdam quæstionis  hoc est, de praesignificationibus atque iudiciis astrologis....  Accessit ... Cl. Ptolomei ... vita per eundem  descripta. 8º. Basileae, per Ioannem Oporinum (Maio, 1559)

Adams M1831

Signed:  Johannes Dee:  1560

Few underlinings and marginal notes

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Inc.3.A.2.14 (179)  (RW. 1334)

Felicis Hemmerlin opuscula& tractatus varij  fo.  vetust[issimo]

Felix Hemmerlin

1.  Opuscula et tractatus. fº. Strassburg, Johann Prüss, n.d.

Oates 218; BM I 129; Hain 8425

Signed:  Joannes Dee

No notes in the text, but one on the title-page, and another on the blank final page which has smudged on to (2).

2.  De nobilitate & rusticitate dialogus. fº. Strassburg, Johann Prüss, n.d.

Oates 219; BM I 129; Hain 8426

Received from the bequest of Richard Holdsworth, master of Emmanuel, 1664.

No annotations.

Binding: 17th-century calf, probably Holdsworth’s

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Inc.3.A.2.10 (139) (RW. 1362)
Lumen animæ, seu liber moralitatum Magnarum rerum naturalium fo. in Germania alibi 1482
Bishop Berengarius, (ed. Matthias Farinator)
Lumen animae, seu liber moralitatum. fº. Strassburg. Printer of the 1481 Legenda Aurea, 22 Mar. 1482.
Oates 172; BM I 97; Hain 10333
Signed: Jo. Dee 1574 Maij 22
Received from the bequest of Richard Holdsworth, master of Emmanuel, 1664.
Few, if any, annotations after fol. 1.

H*.5.52 (D) (RW. 1381)
Georgij Benigni defensio Joh. Reuchlin. 4o. col. 1518
1. Georgius Benignus
Archbishop of Nazareth, Jo. Reuclin defensio per modum dialogi edita. 4º. [Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, Sept, 1517]
Adams B663
Signed: Joannes {...}. The surname is blotted, but appears to start ‘Syl...’, but there is suggestive i. on the title-page (see Roberts and Watson, p.64).
No annotations.
2. [Ortuinus Gratius]
Lamentationes obscurorum virorum, non prohibite per sedem Apostolicam. 4º. [Cologne, heirs of H. Quentel] (1518). With prefatory letter by Erasmus.
Adams L93
Annotation in a neat hand, perhaps Dee’s in red ink, identifying Hochstraten on the left of the title-page woodcut. No other annotations.

H*.5.52 (D) (RW. 1382)
Jacob Hochstraten apologia, seu libri duo contra dialogum Benigni pro Reuchlino scriptum 4o. Col. 1518
3. Ortuinus Gratius
Epistola apologetica ad obscuram Reuchlinistarum cohortem.
4º (Coloniae, ex edibus Quentelianis, 1518, quinto Idus Martius.
Adams G1068
No annotations.
4. Jacob Hochstraten
Ad Leonem papam ac Maxemilianum imperatorem apologia. Contra dialogum Georgio Benigno archiepiscopo Nazareno, in causa I. Reuchlin ascriptum. 4º. Colonie, [sons of H. Quentel], Feb. 1518
Adams H641
No annotations.

H*.5.52 (D) (RW. 1383)
Acta judiciorum inter Jacobum Hochstraten & Joh. Reuchlin, 4o. Hagenoæ. Thom. Anselm. 1518
5. Jacob Hochstraten
Acta judiciorum inter F. Jacobum Hochstraten Inquisitorem Coloniensium & Johannem Reuchlin. 4º. (Hagenoæ, in aed. Tho. Anshelmo, Feb. 1518)
Adams H639
No annotations

H*.5.52 (D) (RW. 1384)
Suasoria ad Leonem decimum p. pi in Turcas 4o. 1518
6. [Leo X, Pope]
Ad Leonem decimum pontificem…et Christianos principes suasoria in Turcas. 4º. [Ferrara, Laurentius de Rubeis] Nonis Iunii, 1518
Adams L457
No annotations
Re-bound; each item originally had a fore-edge tab, presumably attached after the inscription ‘Jo. Reuclin Epistole’ also on the fore-edge.

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Dd*.3.491 (E) (RW. 1574)
Joh. Chæradami Grammaticæ heb. rudimenta 4o. paris:
Johannes Cheradamus
Rudimenta quædam Hebraicæ. 8º. Veneunt Parisiis in via Iacobea apud Egidium Gormontium (Maio) [1523].
Adams C1448
Signed: Joannes Dee 1562
No annotations

K*.6.36 (F) (RW. 1594)
Eliæ Levitæ composita verborum & nominum hebraicorum lat[ine versata?] per Munsterum 8o frob: 1525
Elias Levita
Levita, Composita verborum & nominum Hebraicorum. Tr. S. Munster. 8º. Basileae [J. Froben] Nov. 1525
Adams E110 and E127 (identical); Prijs 21
Signed: Johannes Dee 1562 Louanij
Sparse annotations up to Bb2, perhaps not all Dee’s.

K*.6.461 (F) (RW. 1595)
Augustinus Sebastianus Nouzenus de prima sermonis hebraici lectione 8° Marpurgi 1532
Augustinus Sebastianus
Nuzenus, De literarum, vocum, et accentuum Hæbraicorum natura ... Marpugi (Franciscus Rhodus excudebat, 15 kal. April., 1532
Adams S828
Signed: Joannes Dee
No annotations
Re-bound; no fore-edge title, but perhaps lost in trimming.

K*.6.462 (F) (RW. 1596)
Nicolai Clenardi Grammatica heb. 8°. col. 1561
Nicolaus Clenardus
Tabulae in grammaticam Hebræam, a I. Isaac correctae. Editio tertia. 8º. Coloniae, apud Haeredes Arnoldi Birckmanni (typis Iacobi Soteris) 1561
Adams C2166
Signed: Joannes Dee 1561 in mirror-writing.
Later, (RW. 1595 & 1596) still bound together, in Richard Holdsworth’s library.
No annotations

K*.6.37 (F) (RW. 1600)
Wigandi Happellij Grammatica heb. 8o. Bas. 1561
Wigandus Happellius
Linguæ Sanctæ canones grammatici. 8º. Basileae (per Thomam Guerinum) 1561
Adams H53; Prijs 108a
Signed: Joannes Dee Louanij 1562
No annotations
Later in Richard Holdsworth’s library.
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A*.10.43 (F) (RW. 1604)
Proverbia Salomonis hebraïcè cum versione latina et annotationibus munsteri. 8o. froben
Bible. Old Testament. Proverbs:
Proverbia Salomonis, ed. Sebastian Munster. 8º.
[Basle, J. Froben. 1524]
Adams B1536; Prijs 16
Signed ‘Johannes Dee’ in mirror-writing.
No annotations
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S817.d.52.2 (RW. 1612)
Eliæ Levitæ Capitula cantici, specierum proprietatum & officiorum, in quibus scilicet agitur de literis, punctis & quibusdam accentibus hebraicis, cum versione latina
Elias Levita
Levita, Capitula Cantici, specierum, proprietatum & officiorum, in quibus scilicet agitur de literis, punctis
& quibusdam accentibus hebraicis. Tr. Sebastian Munster. 8º. Basileae (apud Io. Frobenium) 1527
Adams E113; Prijs 27
Signed: Johannes Dee 1562 louanij
Sections on ‘canticus’ and ‘officia’ copiously annotated, but only the note on sig. 12 is Dee’s; two slips with MS notes, predating Dee’s ownership, inserted between e4 and e5.
Later in Richard Holdsworth’s library
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S822.c.55.2 (RW. 1624)
Angeli caninij institutiones linguæ syriacæ 4o. paris. carol. steph. 1554
Angelo Canino
Institutiones linguae Syriacae, Assyriacae atque Thalmudicae, vnà cum Æthiopicae, atque Arabicae collatione. 4º. Parisiis, apud Carolum Stephanum, 1554
Adams C510
Signed: Johannes Dee 1568 Londini; and perhaps later in John Moore’s library
Very sparingly annotated
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O*.4.60 (E) (RW. 1661)
Demetrij chalcondylæ Erotemata grammaticæ græcæ, græcè. 8o. Basil. 1546
Demetrius Chalcondylas
Erotemata, siue Institutiones grammaticae, initiandis graecae linguae studiosis, uel magno Budaeo teste, accommodatissimae: una cum melioris Volmerii Erythro-politani praefatione, in qua de ratione discendae linguae graecæ nonnulla, dignissima cognitu. Accessit item, Emmanuelis Moschopuli de nominum ac uerborum syntaxi libellus. 8º. Basileae (Iunio 1546).
Adams C1306 (but this copy not there noted)
Signed: Joannes Deëus. 1551. parisiis. 17 Aug.
No annotations, except to the last 20 pages of Moschopoulos, where there are pencil underlinings, mostly of names and authors, and a chart on p. 252 re-organising that printed on p. 253.

C.8.41 (RW. 1829)
Victorinus Strigelius in Samuel. Reges & paralipomena fo. Lips. 1569
Bible: Old Testament: Historical books
Libri Samuelis, Regum, & Paralipomena, ad ebraicam veritatem recogniti, et brevibus commentariis explicati a Victorino Strigelio. Adiunctae sunt duodecim orationes. fº. Lipsiae (in officina Ernesti Voegelin Constantiensis, 1569)
Adams B1279
Signed: Johannes Dee

Annotations to the printed text are limited to the dedication. On four blank pages at the end are written, in a bastard secretary hand, conceivably Dee’s, the ‘Histories’ of ‘Josuah’, Godeon’ [sic, ‘Samson’ and ‘Cyrus’. Later in the library of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, and probably in his binding.

REFERENCES

Adams: H. M. Adams,
Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600 in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols.
(Cambridge, 1967; repr. Martino Fine Books, 1999)

BM:
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museums, Pts I-VIII
(London, 1908-49)

Hain: L. Hain,
Repertorium bibliographicum, 2 vols. (4 pts) (Stuttgart, 1826-38)

Oates: J. C. T. Oates,
A Catalogue of the Fifteenth-century Books in the University Library, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1954)

Prijs: Joseph Prijs: Die Basler hebräischen Drucke (1492-1866) (Olter and Freiburg im Breisgau, 1964)

Roberts and Watson: Julian Roberts and Andrew G Watson,
John Dee’s library catalogue (London, the Bibliographical Society, 1990)

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