The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee, and the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts

This is James Orchard Halliwell's 1842 scholarly edition, published for the Camden Society, of John Dee's private diary and the catalogue of his manuscript library, a documentary edition prepared by an independent antiquarian scholar rather than by anyone within the tradition Dee himself practiced. Its evidentiary basis is the Camden Society's own editorial standard for publishing primary historical documents, which is the real reason this record holds it above a bare citation of Dee's manuscripts themselves. Use it to establish biographical and bibliographic facts about Dee as his own diary and library catalogue record them, checkable directly against the edition; a claim about the content or meaning of Dee's angelic conversations themselves needs the dedicated editions of those specific texts held elsewhere in this register, since this edition's scope is the diary and library catalogue rather than the angelic workings.