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The word “Enochian” can point to several different records. A page of conference notes, a book of large letter grids, a collection of Keys, a later copy, and a seventeenth-century printed selection are not interchangeable sources. This concordance starts with the shelfmark and folio range so a reader can trace a topic to a specific witness before following a modern explanation.
The British Library catalogues three central Dee volumes separately: Sloane MS 3188 for early conferences, MS 3189 for Liber Logaeth, and MS 3191 for the Keys and other distinct works. The table below adds Ashmole’s later copies and Casaubon’s 1659 book. Filter it by a term such as “Keys,” “grids,” or “copy”; all rows remain available as ordinary HTML links without the filter.
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8 witnesses
| Witness | Type and date | Location | What it contains | Source and guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sloane MS 3188 | manuscript 1581–83 | ff. 4r–108r (conferences) | Early conference diaries in five books; the dated alphabet example belongs to this early record. | Catalogue record ↗ Early conferences → |
| Sloane MS 3189 | transcript 1583 | ff. 1r–65r | Kelley’s transcription of Liber Logaeth, with extensive letter-and-number grids. | Catalogue record ↗ Liber Loagaeth → |
| Sloane MS 3191: Keys | autograph 1584 | ff. 1r–13r | The forty-eight Angelical Keys, catalogued as one section of Dee’s ceremonial manuscript. | Catalogue record ↗ Keys and Calls → |
| Sloane MS 3191: Liber Scientiae | autograph 1585 | ff. 14r–31r, 52r–80v | The book of earthly knowledge, aid, and victory; a different section from the Keys. | Catalogue record ↗ Aethyr names → |
| Sloane MS 3191: Heptarchia | autograph 1584–85 volume | ff. 32r–51r | Dee’s seven-planet material, assembled in the same volume but outside the Keys and Liber Scientiae folios. | Catalogue record ↗ Heptarchia guide → |
| Sloane MS 3677 | copy 17th century | Later copy | Elias Ashmole’s later fair copy of the earlier conferences preserved in MS 3188. | Catalogue record ↗ Diary witnesses → |
| Sloane MS 3678 | copy 17th century | Later copy | Ashmole’s copy of MS 3191, identified by the catalogue of Dee’s ceremonial volume. | Catalogue record ↗ Dee’s ceremonial book → |
| Casaubon’s Relation | print 1659 | Printed edition | A selected printed presentation of Dee’s conversations with Meric Casaubon’s editorial preface; not a facsimile of every Sloane volume. | Catalogue record ↗ 1659 edition → |
What “autograph” means: The British Library describes MS 3191 as surviving in Dee’s hand. That identifies the writer of the manuscript, not the claimed angelic origin of its words. Ashmole’s copies may preserve readings from damaged leaves, but they are later handwritten books. Digital images of several British Library volumes are currently unavailable in its catalogue.
Three frequent source questions
Where are the forty-eight Angelical Keys?
The British Library locates them at the beginning of MS 3191, folios 1r–13r, and dates their receipt in the record to April–July 1584. That shelfmark and folio range are more precise than saying merely that “the Keys are in the Enochian book.” A modern guide may arrange their spoken use into nineteen Calls; the manuscript’s forty-eight textual Keys and the later presentation of Calls count different things. See the Calls guide for that distinction.
Is Liber Logaeth part of the 1659 Relation?
No single printed title should be treated as a container for all surviving Dee material. The Library catalogues Kelley’s 1583 Liber Logaeth transcription separately as MS 3189, with grids in much of its folio range. The 1659 Relation is a selected printed edition with Casaubon’s preface, documented by the Folger catalogue. They answer different research questions: one preserves a manuscript book of grids; the other shows what an editor put into print generations later.
Can an Ashmole copy replace a missing original leaf?
The Library notes missing leaves in MS 3188 and identifies Ashmole’s fair copy as MS 3677. A copy can preserve wording lost from a damaged original, but it also records seventeenth-century copying choices. MS 3678 is Ashmole’s copy of MS 3191. Neither book turns a later diagram or interpretation into Dee’s autograph.
Continue reading
Start with the Enochian overview for a short chronology. The manuscript and edition archive gives close readings of selected objects, while the language and diagrams reference separates letter forms, translations, tables, and later adaptations. The thirty Aethyr guides name their later printed sources where those sources differ from Dee’s manuscript arrangement.