10-04-2023, 07:14 PM
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From Societas Magica Newsletter Issue 39:
"The British Library’s Sloane collection includes a series of thirty-four notebooks,predominantly concerned with alchemical and medical topics, compiled by an anonymous diarist sometime around the end of the sixteenth century. The notebook manuscripts in question have been most comprehensively studied by Anke Timmermann and David Evett. Evett’s contribution focuses especially on six of the notebooks that include a series of programs for the execution of allegorical paintings more concerned with social and political themes than iatrochemistry. The only direct clue to the compiler’s identity is the initials “C. S.” inscribed on a page pertaining to one of the aforementioned allegories. However, copious circumstantial evidence points to a strong possibility that C. S. is, in fact, Charles Sledd, apothecary, anti-Catholic spy and informer for Francis Walsingham at home and abroad, and sometime acquaintance of John Dee. In what follows, I will lay out some evidence for this identification."
Brian Johnson.
https://societasmagica.org/userfiles/fil...sue_39.pdf
More about Sledd here:
https://erenow.org/common/the-watchers-a...th-i/6.php
"The British Library’s Sloane collection includes a series of thirty-four notebooks,predominantly concerned with alchemical and medical topics, compiled by an anonymous diarist sometime around the end of the sixteenth century. The notebook manuscripts in question have been most comprehensively studied by Anke Timmermann and David Evett. Evett’s contribution focuses especially on six of the notebooks that include a series of programs for the execution of allegorical paintings more concerned with social and political themes than iatrochemistry. The only direct clue to the compiler’s identity is the initials “C. S.” inscribed on a page pertaining to one of the aforementioned allegories. However, copious circumstantial evidence points to a strong possibility that C. S. is, in fact, Charles Sledd, apothecary, anti-Catholic spy and informer for Francis Walsingham at home and abroad, and sometime acquaintance of John Dee. In what follows, I will lay out some evidence for this identification."
Brian Johnson.
https://societasmagica.org/userfiles/fil...sue_39.pdf
More about Sledd here:
https://erenow.org/common/the-watchers-a...th-i/6.php