RE: Edward Kelley...?

[zowen@xxxxxxxxxx]

Hmm..  Any chance the circle on page 23 matches any of the astrological
pages of the VMS?  The circular designs seems similar.. Plus the planetary
symbols may be there..  (I know you've probably already tried that though..
Just a suggestion)..
Zach Owens


>The table I used as a reference for Kelley's numerals was in Sloane MS
>3189, pp 58-59. The page numbering was in pencil (in brackets, as I
>remember), and seemed roughly to correspond with the order of pages in
>which they appear in that MS.
>
>The diagram comprised a large circle, containing five 7x7 magic squares
>arranged in a cross. The central magic square's squares are numbered in
>order 1B, 2B, 3B... 49B.

There's a cleaned-up version of this within Clay Holden's excellent
john-dee.org site:-

         http://www.john-dee.org/Tertius.pdf

Next step: I'll email Clay to see if he has a good quality scan of this
that he could post up.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....