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

· 1608

As explained in Footnote n, John Dee's Diary includes occasional words and phrases written in Greek script, but in the English language. Since a direct transliteration would spoil the effect, these passages are shown in the simple "Rotate-13" code. Details are given at the end of the text, before the Errata. A few words of true Greek have been transliterated and shown between +marks+. Latin words written in Greek script are treated the same way. Letters written in superscript are shown in {braces} or as ordinals: A{o} (_Anno_), 5ª (_quinta_). For consistency, the abbreviation f^o in manuscript descriptions is shown as fº to match 4º and 8º.…

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