| Summary: | Description: Codex chartaceus, in folio. following 199, secc. xvi. exeuntis et xvii. Bryani Twyni, C.C.C. socii, Collectaneorum volumen primum. Content includes: Letter from B. Twyne to his father; degrees of the scholars stopp'd by the President; the pleurisy raging in Oxford; et cetera dat. 19 March 1602. folio 23 born; From the same to the same; in want of money to pay battels; dat 22 Feb. 1602. folio 24.; A playne discourse and humble advice for our gratious Queen Elizabeth her most excellent Majestie to peruse and consider as concerninge the needful reformation of the vulgar kalendar for the civile yeares and daies, accountinge or verifienge according to the time truly spent; by Dr John Dee. folio 141. It is dedicated, "To ye right honorable and my singular good Lorde ye Lord Burghley, Lord Treasurer of Englande." At the end, "The Lord Treasurer's report of the consultation had and examination of the plaine and briefe discourse made by John Dee for the Queens Majestye, etc. 25 Mart. 1582."; A corrected and fair copy of Dr Dee's reformed Almanac for the year 1583; with verses prefixed. fol. 155. Beg. "As Caesar and Sosigenes, The vulgar Kalendar did make, So Caesars peere, our true Empresse, To Dee this worke she did betake."
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