The life and times of Dr John Dee

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    I received from M. William Harbert of St. Gillian his notes uppon my Monas.*

    Dee, John. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalog of His Manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge. Edited by James Halliwell-Phillipps. London, The Camden Society, 1842, page 3.

Places

  • Sain Silian, Cymru

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  • books
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Referenced source material

  • Monas Hiero- glyphica Ioannis Dee, Londinensis, ad Maximilianvm, Dei gratia Romanorvm, Bo- hemiæ et Hvngariæ re- gem sapientissimvm.

Footnotes

  • *

    This of course is his celebrated Monas Hieroglyphica, frequently printed, and the nature of which I attempted to explain in a paper read before the Society of Antiquaries. Mr. Herbert, according to MS. Ashm. 1788, “ dwelt then in Mortlack and was an intimate friend of Dr. Dee’s.”

    Dee, John. The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalog of His Manuscripts, from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, and Trinity College Library, Cambridge. Edited by James Halliwell-Phillipps. Page 3.
    Written by James Halliwell-Phillipps

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