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Cotton MS Vitellius C VII
- Record Id:
- 040-001103011
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001101582
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001273.0x00024b
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100155069414.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Vitellius C VII
- Title:
- Works of John Dee
- Scope & Content:
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Collection of works by John Dee (1527-1609), mathematician, astrologer, and antiquary. Including his autobiographical ‘Compendious Rehearsal of John Dee’, geometric and mathematical observations, and his work ‘Of Famous and Rich Discoveries’.
f. 1r Table of contents.
ff. 2r-13r John Dee, ‘The Compendious [Rehearsal of John Dee his dutiful] declaration, and profe, of the course [and race of his] Studious life, for the space of half [an hundred] yeares, now, by Gods favour and help [fully] spent: made unto the two honorable Commissioners’. With a dedication to Queen Elizabeth I, dated 9 November 1592.
ff. 14r-25r John Dee, ‘Elegans et utilis libellus de arte [mensurandi] cum circino et regula’. Dated 15 February 159[…]. With diagrams. Latin.
ff. 26r-269v John Dee, ‘Of Famous and Rich Discoveries’ [1577]. Lacking the first five chapters (Clulee).
ff. 270r-279v John Dee, ‘De trigono, circino analogico. Opusculum mathematicum et mechanicum’. Containing additional notes (ff. 274r-279v). With diagrams. No date. Latin.
ff. 279r-306r John Dee, ‘Inventa Joannis Dee loninensis, circa illam coni recti atque rectanguli sectionem quae ab antiquis mathematicis parabola appelabatur’ Fragment of ‘De speculis comburentibus’. March 1558. With diagrams. Latin.
ff. 306v-309v John Dee, annotated diagrams showing image formation in complex and concave mirrors.
ff. 310r-311v Supplication sent from John Dee to Queen Mary I, for the recovery and preservation of manuscripts and monuments, and the creation of a royal library. 15 January 1556. Vellum with a paper copy.
ff. 312r-313r Letter from Roger Edwards to John Dee. St Johns Street, 31 March 1580.
f. 314v Letter from Thomas Lincoln to Roger Edwards. 17 March 1579.
ff. 314v Letter from W. Cestren to Roger Edwards. London, 12 April 1580.
ff. 315r-320v Letter from John Dee to Roger Edwards, with notes on Doomsday. 12 July [1580].
f. 321r-321v Fragment of a letter from John Dee to Roger Edwards. Mortlake, 12 June 1580.
f. 322r-324r Notes on Doomsday.
ff. 325r-326r Letter from Roger Edwards to John Dee. St Johns Street, 9 July 1580.
ff. 327r-328v Two fragments of letters from Roger Edwards to John Dee. London, 13 and 16 July 1580.
ff. 329r-345r Robert Thorne, treatise on the parting of the world between Spain and Portugal. 1527.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Cotton Collection
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001101582
040-001103011 - Is part of:
- Cotton MS : Cotton Manuscripts
Cotton MS Vitellius C VII : Works of John Dee - Hierarchy:
- 032-001101582[0835]/040-001103011
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Cotton MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100155069414.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1575
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Place of Origin:
- England.
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Leaves damaged by fire in 1731.
Materials: Paper, vellum.
Dimensions: 320 x 250 mm.
Foliation: ff. xv + 345.
Binding: British Museum 1844.
Script: Secretary, italic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
England.
Provenance:
Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (b. 1571, d. 1631), 1st baronet, antiquary and politician: former owner.
Used by Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), astrologer and antiquary, in 1673 (Tite).
Cotton’s collection was augmented by his son, Sir Thomas Cotton (b. 1594, d. 1662), 2nd baronet, and his grandson, Sir John Cotton.Sir John Cotton (b. 1621, d. 1702), 3rd baronet: bequeathed the entire Cotton collection of books and manuscripts to trustees ‘for Publick Use and Advantage’, 12 and 13 William III, c. 7. Formed one of the foundation collections of the British Museum in 1753.
- Publications:
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Clulee, Nicholas H., John Dee’s Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion (London: Routledge, 1988).
Crossley, James, ed. Autobiographical Tracts of Dr John Dee (Manchester: Printed for the Chetham Society, 1851).
van Durme, M., ed. Correspondence Mercatorienne (Antwerp: Nederlandsche Boekhandel, 1959).
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O., The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of his Library of Manuscripts (London: Printed for the Camden Society, 1842).
Hearne, Thomas, ed. Johannis Glastoniensis Chronica sive Historia de Rebus Glastoniensibus, 2 vols. (Oxford: 1726).
Josten, C.H., ed. Elias Ashmole (1617-1692). His autobiographical and historical notes, his correspondence, and other contemporary sources relating to his life and work, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1966).
Planta, Joseph, ed., A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library Deposited in the British Museum (London: Hansard, 1802), pp. 424.
Sharpe, Kevin, Sir Robert Cotton, 1586–1631: History and Politics in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979).
Sherman, William H., John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance (Amherst: Uniersity of Massachusetts Press, 1995).
Tite, Colin G.C., The Early Records of Sir Robert Cotton’s Library: Formation, Cataloguing, Use (London: British Library, 2003), p. 163.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)