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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee Part 5

1601. Jan. 19th, borrowed of Adam Holland of Newton 5 till Hilary day, uppon a silver salt dubble gilt with a cover, waying 14 oz.

Feb. 2nd, Roger Cook his supposed plat laying to my discredit was by Arthur my sone fownd by chaunce in a box of his papers in his own handwriting circa meridiem, and after none abowt 1 browght to my knowledg face to face. O Deus, libera nos a malo! All was mistaken, and we reconcyled godly. Feb. 10th to 15th, reconciliation betwene us, and I did declare to my wife, Katharine my dowghter, Arthur and Rowland, how things wer thus taken. Feb. 18th, Jane cam to my servyce from Cletheraw. Feb. 25th, R. K[oke] pactum sacrum hora octava mane. March 2nd, Mr. Roger Coke went toward London. March 19th, I receyved the long letters from Bartholomew Hickman hora secunda a meridie by a carryer of Oldham. April 6th, Mr. Holcroft of Vale Royall his first acquaintance at Manchester by reason of William Herbert his frend. He used me and reported of me very freely and wurshiply.

CATALOGUS

Librorum Bibliothecae Externae

Mortlacensis

D. JOH. DEE, A{o} 1583, 6 SEPT.

LIBRI MANUSCRIPTI.

[_From MS. Trin. Coll. Cantab. O. iv._ 20, _transcribed by Ashmole in MS. Ashm._ 1142. _Another autograph copy is preserved in MS. Harl._ 1879, _which scarcely differs from that in the library of Trinity College. The numbers prefixed to the several volumes are added, for the sake of reference, by the Editor._]

1. Milei sphaericorum tractatus tres.

4 pergameno.

2. Theoricae planetarum.-- Jordani de triangulis, ubi de quadratura circuli.-- Ejusdem de perspectiva.-- Ejusdem de speculis, crepusculis, ponderibus, speculis comburentibus, lib. ii.

4 scripti pergameno.

3. Compendium de vitis philosophorum anonymi.-- Ursonis de commixtionibus elementorum.-- Ejusdem aphorismi.

4 pergameno.

4. Avicenna de anima mundi, cum aliis, videlicet, Liber cujus initium est, "Inspector praecedentis libri Avicennae."-- Expositorius Rogeri Bachonis.-- Liber de ponderibus.-- Morienus ad regem Calid.-- Rasis libri quinque de deceno (?)-- Hermetis libri septem.-- Rosinus ad Euthesiam.-- Dicta sapientis.-- Turba philosophorum.-- Distinctionum sapientium liber.-- Epistola Alexandri regis Persarum.-- Aristoteles de 30 verbis.-- Socratis liber.-- Effrey Effinensis liber.-- Liber Calid.-- Liber commentatus.-- Opus philosophorum.-- Geber de perfecto magisterio.

4 pergameno.

5. Joh. Duns Scoti quaestiones in Porphyrii quinque voces.-- Antonii cujusdam expositio in categorias sex, &c.-- Rogerii Bachonis de multiplicatione specierum.-- Ejusdem perspectiva.

4 pergameno.

6. Thomae Aquinatis quaestionum disputatarum volumen.

4 pergameno.

7. Scintillarium poetarum.-- Summa chiromantiae.-- Ovidii metamorphoseos expositio.-- Tractatus de veneno.-- Valerius ad Ruffinum de non ducenda uxore, cum expositione.-- Joh. Wyclyf determinatio.-- Literae fratris Wilhelmi Fleth.-- Fulgentii mythologiae cum Expositione.-- Tractatus de difficilibus dictionibus Bibliae.-- Rob. Lincolniensis in oculo morali.-- Rob. Lincolniensis de ratione veneni.-- Joh. Walensis breviloquium philosophorum, descriptum per Stoctonem Cantabrigiae, 1375.-- Casus abstracti in jure, per Fratrem Hermannum de provincia Saxoniae.-- Casus episcopo reservati.-- Expositio salutationis angelicae.[1]

4 pergameno.

[Footnote 1: Now in Trinity College, Dublin. Bern. 148, (H. 12.)]

8. De ponderibus et mensuris medicinalis operationis.-- Viaticus Constantini Africani libri 7.-- De modo medendi experimenta.-- De origine morborum, et eorum cognitione per urinam.-- De electuariis, &c.

4 pergameno.

9. Ethici Histri cosmographia, ex versione Latina D. Hieronymi.[2]

4 pergameno.

One I had with me, and one I left here, which is noted after.

[Footnote 2: Now MS. Cotton. Vespas. B. x. thus inscribed by Dr.

Dee's hand, "Johannes Dee, 1565, Februarii 21, Wigorniae, ex dono decani ecclesiae, Magistri Beddar."]

10. Anticlaudianus, carmine.-- Hugonis de Pushac, Dunelmensis Episcopi, Brutus, carmine.[3]

Longiuscula forma, pergameno.

[Footnote 3: This MS. is now in the Cottonian library, Vespas. A. x.

"Joannes Dee, 1574, Maij 7, bowght uppon a stall in London."]

11. Tractatus compendiosus de animalibus.

4 pergameno.

12. Wilhelmi Parisiensis fragment. de universis.

4 pergameno.

13. Euclidis Elementa Geometrica, Optica et Catoptrica, ex Arabico translata per Adellardum.-- Theodosii Sphaericorum libri.-- Liber de occultis.-- Ptolomaei planisphaerium.-- Jordani planisphaerium.-- Archimedis tractatus de quadratura circuli.-- Gerardi de Brussel liber de motu.-- Jordanus de ponderibus.-- Libri quatuor geometriae practicae.-- Alfarabius de scientiis.-- Wilhelmi de Conchis philosophia.-- Rasis liber de phisiognomia.-- Anatomia hominis.-- De proprietatibus elementorum.-- cum aliis.

4 pergameno.

14. Augustinus de anima et spiritu.-- Theoremata de spiritu et anima demonstrata.-- Algorithmus demonstratus Joh. de Sacrobosco.-- Joh. de Rupella summa de anima.-- Rob. Lincolniensis tractatus de sphaera.-- Joh. de Sacrobosco tractatus de sphaera.-- Tractatus de proportione et proportionalitate, &c. Rogeri Bachonis-- cum aliis.

pergameno, 4.

15. Maximi Monachi, Dionisii Areopagitae, Sophronii Solitarii, et aliorum Graecorum fragmenta nonnulla.

pergameno, 4.

16. Ramundi Lullii liber de quinta essentia.

papyro, f.

Non est Ramundi Lullii, sed collectanea diversa ex Paracelso.

17. Rogerii Bachonis de anima, et ejus operibus.-- Ejusdem liber de intellectu et intelligibili.

f pergameno.

18. Apologia de versutiis atque perversitatibus pseudo-theologorum et religiosorum.-- Joachim Abbatis prophetia contra religiones tenentes ordinem mendicantium.-- Arnoldi de Villa Nova opus de generibus abusionum veritatis, et de pseudo-ministris Antichristi cognoscendis, et de pastorali officio circa gregem exercendo.-- Ejusdem prophetia catholica, tradens artem annihilandi versutias Antichristi et omnium membrorum ejus, ad sacrum collegium Romanorum.

pergameno, f.

19. Rogeri Bachonis de retardatione senectutis et senii, &c.-- Ejusdem de graduatione medicinarum compositarum, &c.

pergameno, f.

20. Ejusdem Bachonis metaphisica.-- Ejusdem conomica.

pergameno, 4.

21. Ejusdem[4] de animalibus fragmentum.

pergameno, f.

[Footnote 4: Dee has added in the margin the word "dubito,"

meaning, I suppose, that there was not any sufficient evidence for attributing this treatise to Roger Bacon.]

22. Ejusdem Bachonis fragmenta quaedam; videlicet, de multiplicatione et corruptione specierum.-- Item communia naturalia.-- Epistola ad Clementem per R. de utilitate scientiarum artis experimentalis, &c.

pergameno, f.