John Dee's Library Catalogue

Watson, Andrew G.

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“…Immediately after his signature, in the hand of John Stow (1525-1605), is written: I gave for this boke a boke of the foundation of [blank] in Oxfordshire. 34 As Humphrey Wanley observed (supra, p. 5): John Stow hath taken very much from this Author, even Verbatim in a manner. 35 Stow's account of the events of 1399from Richard's departure for Ireland until his capture by Lancastercomes exclusively from the Prinse et mort.…”

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Jehan Creton was a Frenchman and a writer, of whose work only the Prinse et mort 1 and the related ballades and epistles survive; see Figure I for his portrait. The action of his poem takes place in 1399, in England, Ireland, and Wales, during a truce in the middle years of the Hundred Years War (1337War ( -1453. By command of Charles VI of Francewhose daughter, Isabella, had been married to Richard II in 1396 -Creton joined Richard's retinue on his second Irish expedition, in 1399, and was thus by chance able to tell how a king, at the height of his powers, was left to face an overweening subjecthis mortal foewithout his army. Tricked into leaving a strong castle, whence he could have escaped by sea, Richard fell into Henry Lancaster's power, was deposed and murdered. Safely back in France, Creton could relate how this happened, without fear of reprisals, and his long poemquatrains, prose, and coupletsis thus an important corrective to the chronicles composed under the Lancastrian regime. He did not give his work a title; this has been taken from an entry in one of the duke of Berry's account books. 2 Unlike Jehan Froissart writing rather earlier, Creton was not a chronicler and the Prinse et mort is not a chronicle. On the face of it, the sophisticated verse form is unsuitable. It was never popular it was too difficultbut it was practised in France by the major literary figures of the day. Conversely it was the choice nature of the structure that made it appropriate; only the most dazzling and difficult form was a suitable vehicle for relating the downfall of an anointed king. Unlike other accounts of Richard II's capture, Creton's was designed primarily for reading aloud to an audience rather than for silent reading. This was another reason for writing in verse, which could be followed more easily by those listening.1 Prinse is pronounced to rhyme with English 'freeze': the n is not sounded. The rhymes at ll. 572-575 and 1576-1579 show this.2 M. Meiss, 'The bookkeeping of Robinet d'Estampes and the chronology of Jean de Berry's manuscripts',

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John Dee and the alchemists: Practising and promoting English alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire

Rampling

2012

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A

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This paper investigates John Dee’s relationship with two kinds of alchemist: the authorities whose works he read, and the contemporary practitioners with whom he exchanged texts and ideas. Both strands coincide in the reception of works attributed to the famous English alchemist, George Ripley (d. c. 1490). Dee’s keen interest in Ripley appears from the number of transcriptions he made of ‘Ripleian’ writings, including the Bosome book, a manuscript discovered in 1574 and believed to have been written in Ripley’s own hand. In 1583, Dee and his associate Edward Kelley left England for East Central Europe, taking with them a proportion of Dee’s vast library, including alchemical books—the contents of which would soon pique the interest of continental practitioners. Kelley used Ripley’s works, including the Bosome book, not only as sources of practical information, but as a means of furthering his own relationships with colleagues and patrons: transactions that in turn influenced Ripley’s posthumous continental reception. The resulting circulation of texts allows us to trace, with unusual precision, the spread of English alchemical ideas in the Holy Roman Empire from the late sixteenth century.

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Two Occult Philosophers in the Elizabethan Age

Forshaw¹

2007

History Workshop Journal

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John Dee and the alchemists: Practising and promoting English alchemy in the Holy Roman Empire

Two Occult Philosophers in the Elizabethan Age

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