Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee

[nwhyte]

Long, long ago, in 1991, I was researching the medieval textbook Liber de arte astronomice iudicandi by the late twelfth-century English astrologer Roger of Hereford, which survives only in a dozen or so manuscripts. Various indications led me to try and compare his text with the earlier twelfth-century translation by Hermann of Carinthia of the

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[white_hart]

That sounds amazing! I'll have to see whether I can manage a weekday trip to London sometime.

[qatsi]

The exhibition is on my to-do list, but as it's generally Mon-Fri only I am going to aim for one of the evening openings.

[nwhyte]

I reckoned it was worth a half-morning off. I was right!

[gummitch]

That magical mirror featured very prominently in the opening passage of John Crowley's Aegypt.

[ext_265989]

Those were the days, all right. It was 1995 when I went there to read Dee's copies of Postel's books. Are they on exhibit?