Table of Contents

Part I. The Private Diary of Dr John Dee, Edited by James Orchard Halliwell: Preface; Dr Dee's diary; Catalogus librorum bibliothecae externae Mortlacensis D. Joh. Dee, Anno 1583, 6 Sept.; Index; Part II. Autobiographical Tracts of Dr John Dee, Edited by James Crossley: Preface; The compendious rehearsall of John Dee; Supplication to Queen Mary; Articles for the recovery and preservation of the ancient monuments; A necessary advertizement; A letter containing a most brief discourse apologetical; Part III. Diary, for the Years 1595–1601, of Dr John Dee, Edited by John Eglington Bailey: Memoir of Dr Dee, 1527–94; The diary for 1595; The diary for 1596; The diary for 1597; The diary for 1598 (Jan.–March); The diary for 1600 (June–Dec.); The diary for 1601 (Jan.–April); Letters by Dr Dee; Additional notes; Part IV. Lists of Manuscripts Formerly Owned by Dr John Dee, with Preface and Identifications by M. R. James: Preface; List A (Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 191); List B (Brit. Mus. Add. 35213); List C (Catalogus librorum, Trinity College, Cambridge, O. 4. 20); Other manuscripts which certainly or probably belonged to Dee; List of manuscripts noticed; Additional note.

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These editions (1842–1920) are fascinating for the immediacy of John Dee's accounts of his life as a Renaissance scholar.