John Dee's Grimoire Collection

Dr. John Dee (1527–1608/09) was an ardent promoter of mathematics, a respected astronomer, and a leading expert on navigation. As a Hermetic philosopher and student of Renaissance Neoplatonism, he made no distinction between mathematical research and supernatural pursuits. He regarded these pursuits as mere tools for achieving a transcendent understanding of the divine forms underlying the visible world, what he called "pure truths."

In 1580, he began experimenting with evocative clairvoyance to contact and communicate with angels. In 1582, he met Edward Kelley, who greatly impressed him with his clairvoyant abilities. Dee took Kelley into his experiments and began to devote all his energies to his supernatural pursuits.

He spent his last 30 years dedicated to his "actions with spirits" as a means of "learning the universal language of creation."

He documented every interaction he had with the angels and wrote extensively about how to call upon them, as well as their Language, which he called "Enochian," revealed to him by the various angels he summoned.

This collection has 1 book of 497 pages, and 7 manuscripts (microfilmed) with a total of 617 pages:

• A True and Faithful Relation of What Passed for Many Years Between Dr. John Dee and Some Spirits by Meric Casaubon, 1659
• 48 Claves Angelicæ – Manuscript Doll
• From heptarchia mystica – Manuscript Doll
• Liber Scientiae Auxilii et victoriae terrestris – Manuscript Doll
• Tabula bonorum angelorum invocationes – Manuscript Doll
• Mysteriorum Libri Quinque (1581–1583) – Manuscript Doll
• Liber Loagaeth or Liber Mysteriorum Sextus Et Sanctus by Edward Kelly – Manuscript Doll
  Liber Loagaeth or Liber Mysteriorum, Sextus et Sanctus – Manuscript Doll