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The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts

John Dee · tr. ed. James Orchard Halliwell · 1842 · 30,211 words

The private diary of Queen Elizabeth’s magus, 1577–1601: his family, patrons, travels, debts, and the scryer Edward Kelley, with the catalogue of his manuscripts.

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Private Diary · Dr. John Dee

Of

And

The Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts,

From the Original Manuscripts

In the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge

Edited by

JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq. F.R.S.,

Hon. M.R.I.A., &c. &c. &c

London

Printed for the Camden Society,

By John Bowyer Nichols and Son, Parliament Street

M.dccc.xlii

(No. XIX.)

Contents (list added by transcriber) The Diary and the Camden Society Report were separately paginated, each beginning from 1. In this e-text the Camden Society page numbers are shown in italics. Any page anchors refer to the Diary.
Editor’s Preface — vii
John Dee’s Diary — 1
Catalogue of John Dee’s Manuscripts — 65
Index to the Diary — 91
Report of the Camden Society — 1
Members of the Camden Society — 13
Greek Transliteration Key

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Contents

  1. Private Diary · Dr. John Dee
  2. Council
  3. Preface
  4. Dr. Dee’s Diary (part 1)
  5. Dr. Dee’s Diary (part 2)
  6. Catalogus

About this edition

Source: Project Gutenberg #19553

Public domain: Public domain worldwide (1842).

What’s included: The complete Camden Society edition.

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