The museum’s groundbreaking exhibition of books from the library of Elizabethan polymath John Dee closed at the end of July 2016.

The Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer John Dee was often known as ‘Doctor Dee’. Though he was not a qualified or registered physician he did have a strong interest in medicine.

Members of the John Dee exhibition team describe their favourite objects in the exhibition ‘Scholar, courtier, magician: the lost library of John Dee’.

A guest post from the Science Museum explores mystical objects associated with John Dee, the subject of a current RCP exhibition.

A guest post from Cambridge University Library explores a book written by John Dee and owned by various figures from English history.

The Royal College of Physicians library holds more than 100 volumes stolen from John Dee during his lifetime, the largest single collection of Dee’s books in the world.

A new exhibition at the RCP opens on 18 January 2016. It explores the life and work of the Elizabethan mathematician and astrologer John Dee through annotated books from his library.

A guest post from Middle Temple Library explores some books connected to and owned by John Dee, the subject of a current RCP exhibition.

The RCP library owns a book by the Italian astrologer Girolamo Cardano that was owned, read and annotated by the Elizabethan polymath John Dee.

A guest post from the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge explores books and manuscripts owned and written by John Dee and Samuel Pepys.