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1659 · A True and Faithful Relation

John Dee, with Edward Kelley as scryer; edited with a preface by Meric Casaubon · 1659

A True and Faithful Relation

In 1659 Meric Casaubon printed, from the manuscript in Sir Thomas Cotton's library, John Dee's own records of the 'actions' in which Edward Kelley scryed angels and spirits in a shewstone between 1583 and 1587, with two later sessions of 1607. The diaries follow Dee and Kelley from Mortlake to Cracow and Prague, through audiences with Albert Łaski, Stephen Báthory and Rudolf II, the dictation of the Enochian calls and tables, and the notorious 'cross-matching' of 1587. Casaubon framed the book with a long preface arguing that the spirits were real but diabolical, and included Dee's 1594/5 apology to the Archbishop of Canterbury. This text follows the EEBO-TCP transcription; Dee's longer marginal notes are kept as notes, and illegible words are marked.

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  1. 1.Title page and frontispiece247 w.
  2. 2.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 1 of 93,432 w.
  3. 3.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 2 of 93,380 w.
  4. 4.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 3 of 93,695 w.
  5. 5.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 4 of 93,910 w.
  6. 6.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 5 of 93,940 w.
  7. 7.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 6 of 93,736 w.
  8. 8.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 7 of 94,055 w.
  9. 9.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 8 of 93,578 w.
  10. 10.Meric Casaubon’s preface, part 9 of 93,422 w.
  11. 11.Casaubon’s postscript and note to the reader1,207 w.
  12. 12.Dr Dee’s apology to the Archbishop of Canterbury (1594/5)4,124 w.
  13. 13.Liber Mysteriorum parallelus Novalisque (Mortlake), part 1 of 63,684 w.
  14. 14.Liber Mysteriorum parallelus Novalisque (Mortlake), part 2 of 63,657 w.
  15. 15.Liber Mysteriorum parallelus Novalisque (Mortlake), part 3 of 63,651 w.
  16. 16.Liber Mysteriorum parallelus Novalisque (Mortlake), part 4 of 64,399 w.
  17. 17.Liber Mysteriorum parallelus Novalisque (Mortlake), part 5 of 64,281 w.
  18. 18.Liber Mysteriorum parallelus Novalisque (Mortlake), part 6 of 64,266 w.
  19. 19.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 1 of 8 (21 Sept. 1583)3,882 w.
  20. 20.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 2 of 8 (21 Sept. – 26 Oct. 1583)3,909 w.
  21. 21.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 3 of 8 (1–13 Nov. 1583)4,321 w.
  22. 22.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 4 of 8 (15–20 Nov. 1583)3,855 w.
  23. 23.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 5 of 8 (23 Nov. 1583 – 2 Jan. 1584)4,027 w.
  24. 24.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 6 of 8 (12 Jan. – 11 Feb. 1584)3,562 w.
  25. 25.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 7 of 8 (11–18 Feb. 1584)3,434 w.
  26. 26.Liber Peregrinationis Primae: from Mortlake to Cracow, part 8 of 8 (21 Feb. – 4 Mar. 1584)3,211 w.
  27. 27.Mensis Mysticus Sabbaticus (Cracow), part 1 of 5 (10–12 Apr. 1584)3,932 w.
  28. 28.Mensis Mysticus Sabbaticus (Cracow), part 2 of 5 (13–14 Apr. 1584)4,358 w.
  29. 29.Mensis Mysticus Sabbaticus (Cracow), part 3 of 5 (15–21 Apr. 1584)3,364 w.
  30. 30.Mensis Mysticus Sabbaticus (Cracow), part 4 of 5 (25 Apr. 1584)3,985 w.
  31. 31.Mensis Mysticus Sabbaticus (Cracow), part 5 of 5 (25–30 Apr. 1584)4,025 w.
  32. 32.Liber Mysticus Apertorius Cracoviensis Sabbaticus, part 1 of 3 (7–14 May 1584)4,096 w.
  33. 33.Liber Mysticus Apertorius Cracoviensis Sabbaticus, part 2 of 3 (14–21 May 1584)4,088 w.
  34. 34.Liber Mysticus Apertorius Cracoviensis Sabbaticus, part 3 of 3 (21–22 May 1584)4,096 w.
  35. 35.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 1 of 8 (23–28 May 1584)4,320 w.
  36. 36.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 2 of 8 (4–8 June 1584)4,519 w.
  37. 37.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 3 of 8 (11–20 June 1584)4,183 w.
  38. 38.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 4 of 8 (22–25 June 1584)4,463 w.
  39. 39.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 5 of 8 (26 June 1584)3,081 w.
  40. 40.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 6 of 8 (27–2 June 1584)3,418 w.
  41. 41.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 7 of 8 (2–5 July 1584)4,022 w.
  42. 42.Liber Septimus Apertorius Cracoviensis (pars quarta), part 8 of 8 (7–12 July 1584)4,727 w.
  43. 43.Liber Cracoviensis Mysticus Apertorius, and the Madimian proem (12–31 July 1584)4,150 w.
  44. 44.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 1 of 8 (15–17 Aug. 1584)3,886 w.
  45. 45.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 2 of 8 (20–21 Aug. 1584)3,788 w.
  46. 46.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 3 of 8 (21 Aug. – 1 Sept. 1584)4,470 w.
  47. 47.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 4 of 8 (3–5 Sept. 1584)4,422 w.
  48. 48.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 5 of 8 (5–15 Sept. 1584)4,428 w.
  49. 49.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 6 of 8 (21–24 Sept. 1584)4,694 w.
  50. 50.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 7 of 8 (25 Sept. – 1 Oct. 1584)4,342 w.
  51. 51.Mysteriorum Pragensium Liber Primus (Prague), part 8 of 8 (2–8 Oct. 1584)3,600 w.
  52. 52.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 1 of 6 (14 Jan. 1585)4,237 w.
  53. 53.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 2 of 6 (14 Jan. 1585)4,255 w.
  54. 54.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 3 of 63,922 w.
  55. 55.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 4 of 6 (14 Jan. 1585)3,732 w.
  56. 56.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 5 of 64,741 w.
  57. 57.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatio, part 6 of 63,742 w.
  58. 58.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatorum Liber; Mysteria Stephanica (Cracow), part 1 of 4 (20 Mar. – 12 Apr. 1585)4,184 w.
  59. 59.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatorum Liber; Mysteria Stephanica (Cracow), part 2 of 4 (12 Apr. 1585)4,188 w.
  60. 60.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatorum Liber; Mysteria Stephanica (Cracow), part 3 of 44,430 w.
  61. 61.Mysteriorum Pragensium Confirmatorum Liber; Mysteria Stephanica (Cracow), part 4 of 43,552 w.
  62. 62.The Actio Pucciana, Prague (6 Aug. – 6 Sept. 1585)5,886 w.
  63. 63.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 1 of 9 (30 Apr. 1586)4,576 w.
  64. 64.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 2 of 94,720 w.
  65. 65.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 3 of 94,412 w.
  66. 66.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 4 of 93,907 w.
  67. 67.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 5 of 9 (15 Apr. 1587)4,461 w.
  68. 68.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 6 of 93,841 w.
  69. 69.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 7 of 9 (21–24 Apr. 1587)3,628 w.
  70. 70.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 8 of 93,266 w.
  71. 71.Liber Resurrectionis (Prague and Trebona), part 9 of 9 (23 May 1587)4,474 w.
  72. 72.London, at Mrs Goodman’s house (20 Mar. – 11 July 1607)5,443 w.
  73. 73.The last actions, London, part 1 of 2 (15 July – 5 Sept. 1607)3,081 w.
  74. 74.The last actions, London, part 2 of 2 (5–7 Sept. 1607)2,979 w.