RENAISSANCE MAN:
The Reconstructed Libraries of European Scholars, 1450-1700
Series One: The Books and Manuscripts of John Dee, 1527-1608
Part 2: John Dee's Manuscripts from Corpus Christi College, Oxford
"Dee stood in the middle of the sixteenth century, at the watershed between magic and science, looking back at one and forward to the other. Central to all these interests was a great library, the largest that had ever been built up by one man in England. Dees omnivorous reading and the availability of his library to others fed many of the intellectual streams of Elizabethan England
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Dr. Julian Roberts, Consultant Editor,
Former Keeper of Printed Books, the Bodleian Library, Oxford
The 71 volumes of manuscript material from Corpus Christi College, Oxford are available in Part 2 of this project including many Arabic mathematical texts and heavily annotated works of Roger Bacon. These include medical texts, works on the spheres and on spirits, romances, saints lives, commentaries, grammars, alchemical recipes and texts on astronomy, geometry, music theory, numerology and rhetoric. It is not surprising that there are also a large number of volumes concerning Hermetic Philosophy, the Occult and alchemy, as many of the key works in this area were circulated in manuscript form only. This series will be of interest to Medieval and Renaissance scholars across many disciplines including literature, science and history.
Volumes of particular interest include: Ms 125 A heavily annotated volume concerning alchemy, the occult, and Hermetic Philosophy, featuring Roger Bacons Speculum Secretorum, and other texts by Galfridus de Vino Salvo, Albertus Magnus, Hermes, Geber, Nicolaus and others. Ms 149 A heavily annotated volume containing the works of Roger Bacon and Aristotle Ms 283 Various works on the astrolabe and astronomy, Euclids Optica, and texts by Ptolemy, Pseudo-Aristotle, and Gregory the Great.
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