Re: VMs: Dee, the [Roger] Bacon collector

[John Brownlee <jonnie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, legal1@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Remember this one?
>Bacon, Roger, 1214?-1294. cn
>De mirabili potestate artis et naturae. English
>Frier Bacon his discovery of the miracles of art, nature, and magick
>microform / faithfully translated out of Dr. Dees own
>copy by T.M. and never before in English.
>London : Printed for Simon Miller ..., 1659.
>Holdings:
>CLEVELAND/General Reference
>CALL NUMBER: PR161 .E32x STC2 51:3. -- Microfilm -- NonCirculating

	I believe the translation is familiar to me, but I've only seen it
on microfilm at the library. What it was translated from walking closer to
Bacon's source Ms I do not recall.

>But is this the same Bacon book read by Dee that they have on the Bodleian?

	If it's the same microfilm from University Microfilms, I believe
the work imaged is from the Henry Huntington Library's large collection of
early English manuscripts and books. I believe this particular film is from
one of their collected volumes labeled 'De secretis operibus artis et
naturae.' The Huntington had some on-line presence two years ago, perhaps a
search in their catalog might do the trick.

						Yours,

-- 
							John

John Brownlee
Chief Systems Administrator
Scary Monsters Network
jonnie at scarymonsters dot net

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