Date:late-17th centuryPrevious ownerElias Ashmole (1617-1692)Annotation:Folio. Papers collected by Ashmole, but in modern binding. The beginning and end of the volume are ruled paper prepared for transcription of documents. The first item (a transcription of The Compendious Rehersall of John Dee) states, in an added, half-secretary hand at the bottom, "Coppied from the originall, ^Sub Effigie Vitellii C. 7^ remaining in Sr: Robert / Cottons Library Ao. 1673 by me / E Ashmole."