RE: VMs: Ryland 228

["GC" <glenclaston@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nick wrote:
>
> I think Rafal Prinke is totally correct to strongly
> question the
> Dee-centric view of VMS' history - many of the supposed
> pieces of evidence
> don't quite "stack up":-
>
>          http://hum.amu.edu.pl/~rafalp/HERM/VMS/dee.htm#9
>
> Having said that... I do think the quire-marks are
> Dee's, and the foliation
> is Kelly's: but this doesn't mean I think the "600/630
> ducats" evidence
> links the sale with Dee.

Of course there's always that *third* option that the manuscript
was from an English source?  Dee bought several books from
dissolved monasteries in England, and if indeed the VMS were ever
in his hands, this would be a much simpler explanation of how he
obtained it.  Even simpler, if it was written by Ascham, then
Roger would have obtained it after Anthony's death, a much more
direct line of transference from author to Dee? :-)  Theories do
indeed abound!

GC

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