Re: About Thaddeus Hajek

[reeds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim Reeds)]

On Jun 13,  6:13, golem matrix wrote:

> Subject: Re: About Thaddeus Hajek
> Snaz'il jsem, se objevit s'ifru rukopisiu, materialu, ktere
>   mi E.K. pr'inesi, jak si pr'al. Nalezi je v Huet's Cross,
>   s knihou o kouzlech a alchimii, ke ktere ho pr'ivedlo
>   duchovni stvor'eni.
> 
> hi there! these lines translate as this:
> I suffered to break the code of the manuscript, the material E.K. brought 
> and asked me to decipher. He found these (pages) in Huet's Cross alongside a 
> book about magic and alchemy to which he was led by a spiritual being.

This rang a bell.  On p.323 of vol 2 of Whitby's thesis is
a transcription of MS Sloane 3188, fol. 88, dated Thursday
11 April 1583.  Dee takes time out from his spiritual exercises
to relax with a bit of cryptanalysis: "After my coming home
from the court, abowt 4 of the clock after none, and after my
being in my study a while, it cam into my hed to assay to deciphre
the cifer which befor is spoken of as was browght me by E K,
as he was willed to do. And at the first I was half out of hope:
but yet making many assayes, and gessing at it (at the length)
to be latine, I found this to be the true Alfabet. God giving
me the perceyverance..." and in a marginal note "They were fownd
at Huets Cross as the spiritual creature affirmed when he led
them to the finding of this Monime[n]t & a boke of Magik &
Alchimie..."  Whitby discusses this on vol. 1, pp.511-513.
The book is the book of St Dunstan.






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