MS. Sloane 3188
This is the diary for 22nd December 1581 – 23rd May 1583 inclusive: the first five Books of the Mysteries (and Appendix), ending where A True and Faithful Relation begins. It describes the furniture of the temple; the Seal of God (Sigillum Dei); the Tables of Light; the Great Circle and corresponding Collected Table of 49 Good Angels; the Mystic Heptarchy and the Tables of Creation; the Angelic Alphabet (Dee’s copies) and the beginning of Loagaeth (i.e., the first few folios of MS. Sloane 3189).
There are two transcripts of this manuscript available today: Joseph Peterson, John Dee’s Five Books of Mystery (New York: Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003) and C. L. Whitby, John Dee’s Actions with Spirits: 22 December 1581 to 23 May 1583 (unpublished University of Birmingham Ph.D. thesis, 1981), the latter being available at EThOS.
The notes by William Shippen which appear at the end of the MS. are not included here. Each file is about 1MiB in size.
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