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Re: Edward Kelly a conlanger?

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Friday, January 2, 2004, 6:04
I picked up a huge facimile edition of one of Dee's
books on ebay for a song a few years back.  It's a
hoot to read with the old-tymee script and other
doodads, decorations, letter grids, and drawings of
magickal seal and symbols.

--gary

--- "John L. Leland" <Lelandconlang@...> wrote:
> If you want a basic starter book on Dee, one I > happen to have is Benjamin > Wooley: The Queen's Conjurer HarperCollins pb 2001. > It is by no means the best > book as far as Dee and Kelly's involvement with > Enochian goes, but it has a > fairselect bibliography which might help you go > further. > It should be remarked that crediting either Dee or > Kelly with creating > Enochian depends on the assumption they were not > really talking to angels and > learning the angelic language ...not that I would > seriously argue they were. > John Leland