Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames [manuscript] : discoueringe howe farre the reasonable soule exerciseth her operations in the time of sleepe and prooueinge that in sleepe there can bee noe reasonable and methodical speech, 1605 / by Richard Haydocke.
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Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames [manuscript] : discoueringe howe farre the reasonable soule exerciseth her operations in the time of sleepe and prooueinge that in sleepe there can bee noe reasonable and methodical speech, 1605 / by Richard Haydocke.
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23 leaves ; 21 x 16 cm
Summary
An autograph treatise on dreams by Richard Haydock of New College, Oxford, who gained notoreity by preaching in his sleep before his fraud was exposed by James I. The work opens with Haydock's letter to James I (in which he compares the king's judgment to King Solomon's wisdom and begs pardon for his error), followed by a letter "To the Curteouse Reader" and the treatise in 6 chapters.
Language Note
In English and Latin.
Note
Bound with 16 other manuscript works in the 18th century; repaired and separated into 15 booklets, some with multiple works, in 1993 (J.a.1 (1-15)). Modern pencil foliation added before separation: 47-70 (leaves 64-70 blank).
Contents
[The praeface containeinge a summe of the whole]
Of naturall dreames and theire originall
Of the seconde sort of dreams called animall
What operations the understandeinge hath in time of sleepe
Certaine authorities of Hippocrates, Galen, and others which seeme to attribute as great power to the understandeinge in sleepe, as wakeinge, answered
His Ma. arguments that there can bee noe reasonable discourse in sleepe.
Of naturall dreames and theire originall
Of the seconde sort of dreams called animall
What operations the understandeinge hath in time of sleepe
Certaine authorities of Hippocrates, Galen, and others which seeme to attribute as great power to the understandeinge in sleepe, as wakeinge, answered
His Ma. arguments that there can bee noe reasonable discourse in sleepe.
Provenance
Sold in sale of Marquess of Cholmondeley Library (Sotheby Sale, 17-20 March, 1925, no. 450)
Source of acquisition
Purchased from Maggs, 1932 (cat. 569, no. 204)
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009. To Sleep Perchance to Dream.
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J.a.1 (5)
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cs2203