Year 1555
Original
April 22nd, Jane Fromonds borne at Cheyham at none. Aug. 1st, Ed. Kelly natus hora quarta a meridie ut annotatum reliquit pater ejus. Oct. 12th, the Lord Willughby born hora septima mane, ante meridiem, Lat. 51° 30', at Wesell in Gelderland.
Musean translation
Modern machine-assisted Musean edition by Mouseia, from Halliwell's 1842 printing. Latin entries and catalogue titles are translated; uncertain readings are marked. In the Original, 'whereof' is normalized to 'of which' in five entries. The 9 December 1579 dream is decoded and respelled, with 'sal' for the cipher's 'shal'; the other decoded cipher reads 'one uppon a hundred'. This edition decodes the remaining cipher passages. Greek follows the source transcription. The editor's preface, footnotes, index and Ashmole's separate list are omitted.
April 22nd, Jane Fromonds was born at Cheyham at noon. Aug. 1st, Ed. Kelly was born at four in the afternoon, as his father left it noted. Oct. 12th, the Lord Willughby was born at seven in the morning, before noon, Lat. 51° 30', at Wesell in Gelderland.
Plain English translation
Modern machine-assisted Plain English edition by Mouseia, from Halliwell's 1842 printing. Latin entries and catalogue titles are translated; uncertain readings are marked. In the Original, 'whereof' is normalized to 'of which' in five entries. The 9 December 1579 dream is decoded and respelled, with 'sal' for the cipher's 'shal'; the other decoded cipher reads 'one uppon a hundred'. This edition decodes the remaining cipher passages. Greek follows the source transcription. The editor's preface, footnotes, index and Ashmole's separate list are omitted.
April 22nd, Jane Fromonds was born at Cheyham at noon. Aug. 1st, Ed. Kelly was born at four in the afternoon, as his father left it noted. Oct. 12th, the Lord Willughby was born at seven in the morning, before noon, Lat. 51° 30', at Wesell in Gelderland.
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Year 1555 is part of The Private Diary of Dr. John Dee by John Dee. This page sets the 16th-century English original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is part 2 of 35 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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