fate of Jacobus's writings

[Jorge Stolfi <stolfi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[This one was sent to Rafal only by mistake. --JS]

    > [Rafal:] I would rather say [Dee] was never financially
    > independent - but also never fell into poverty.
    
In England, yes --- but I gather that in Bohemia he got much closer to
bankrupcy, yes?  Fell-Smith reports that on Feb-Mar 1585 Jane Dee demanded
that Dee and Kelley ask the spirits advice on how to make ends meet,
lest they be forced to pawn their "house ornaments".
    
    > [Jacobus's] main heir was the Clementinum college - so I suspect
    > his library would have gone there, too - if it survived his
    > expulsion.

Schmidl's book, which Rene and I saw at the Clementinum (now home of
the Czech Natl Library), has one half-page entry about what happened
to Jacobus's estate after it was inherited by the Jesuits.
Unfortunately the library closed before I had time to copy that item.
>From a quick scan, it did not seem to mention any papers or books,
only real estate and material goods. Most of it was sold over a period
of several years, IIRC.

It is possible that his books (if there were any) were sold as part of
the estate, or (more likely) they were incorporated into the
Clementinum's library. If the latter, they may have ended up at
Charles university, and/or may have been taken to Sweden (I believe
this was Lubos Antonin's guess), or (who knows) they may have remained
in the Clementinum to this day.

All the best,

--stolfi