Guide to the Robert Lenkiewicz collection M2855

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Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Robert Lenkiewicz collection
source: Maggs Bros.
Creator: Lenkiewicz, R. O. (Robert O.), 1941-2002
Identifier/Call Number: M2855
Physical Description: 7 Linear Feet (17 manuscript storage boxes, 1 half box)
Date (inclusive): c. 1950s - 1990s

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Preferred Citation

[identification of item], Robert Lenkiewicz collection (M2855). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Scope and Contents

Bound collection of 52 vols of academic reference and xerographed facsimile editions from the library of Robert Lenkiewicz. Focused on John Dee, Leibniz and other Renaissance occultism.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Magic -- History.
Occultism -- History
Alchemy -- History
Cabala -- History
Microcosm and macrocosm
Philosophy -- History
Physical sciences.
Maggs Bros.
Dee, John, 1527-1608
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716

Box 1, Item 1

CONGER (George Perrigo). Theories of Macrocosms and Microcosms in the History of Philosophy

Scope and Contents

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University. Columbia University Press, New York, 1922. Xviii, Xerographed copy. 147pp.
Box 1, Item 1

BARONE (Robert William). The Reputation of John Dee: A Critical Appraisal

Scope and Contents

The Ohio State University, 1989. Xerographed facsimile dissertation. 194pp.
Box 1, Item 2

BAYER (Penny). Lady Clifford and Alchemy: The Evidence of her Recipt Book

Scope and Contents

Draft paper for presentation to the Graduate Conference, Centre for British and Comparative Studies, The University of Warwick. [n.d.] 31pp.
Box 1, Item 3

BECCO (Anne). Leibniz et François-Mercure van Helmont: Bagatelle pour des Monades

Scope and Contents

119-141pp. Xerographed facsimile, French language, [n.p., n.d.].
Box 2, Item 1

BROWN (Stuart). F.M. van Helmont: his philosophical connections and the reception of his later Cabbalistic philosophy (1677-1699)

Scope and Contents

[n.p.], March, 1994. Annotations in copy, 29pp
Box 2, Item 2

BROWN (Stuart). Intimations of Monadology in the De Summa Rerum

Scope and Contents

Paper delivered at British Society for the History of Philosophy. Conference: The Young Leibniz. 1996. with [3]pp. conference itinerary. [17]pp.
Box 2, Item 3

BROWN (Stuart). Leibniz and More's Cabbalistic Circle

Scope and Contents

[20]pp. Xerographed facsimile.
Box 3

CALDER (I.R.F.). John Dee; Studied as an English Neoplatonist […] Volume I

Scope and Contents

Text. Thesis submitted for the Degree of Ph.D. to London University. December 1952. Xerographed facsimile of typescript. Ms. Corrections in copy. 867pp. [misbound as Volume 2]
Box 4

CALDER (I.R.F.). John Dee; Studied as an English Neoplatonist […] Volume II

Scope and Contents

Notes and Bibliographies. 1952. As above. 614pp. [Misbound as volume 1].
Box 5, Item 1

CAREIL (A. Foucher de). Leibniz. La Philosophie Juive et la Cabale

Scope and Contents

Trois Lectures A L'Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques avec les manuscrits Inedits de Leibniz. Auguste Durande, Paris, 1861. 53-66pp. ; Leibnitii Observationes Ad Rabbi Mosis Maimonidis Librum Qui Inscribitur Doctor Perplexorum. [22]pp. ; Observations de Leibniz sur le Livre du Rabbin Moise Maimonide intitule le guide des égarés. [21]pp. Text in French. Photocopy. Note bound after f.f.e. "Nick. / You now have the whole book except for lectures 1 & 2 and an appendix on the history of Avenoism. Leibniz comments on / – KD (ARC) / – Faust."
Box 5, Item 2

CATANA (Leo). Narrative Structure and Imagery in Giordano Bruno's Lo spaccio de la bestia trionfante

Scope and Contents

MA Dissertation, 30th of September 1997 The Warburg Institute, Supervisor: Dr Jill Kraye. [2], 1-36, A-F, 1-8, [4]pp. Coffee stain to title page and RL's binding instructions.
Box 5, Item 3

CLUCAS (Stephen). Amorem, artem, magiam, mathesim: Brunian Images and the Domestication of the Soul.

Scope and Contents

Die Aktualitäten von Giordano Bruno, Zentrum zur Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit. Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universät, Frankfurt-am-Main, July 17-18 1998. [22]pp.
Box 5, Item 4

CLUCAS (Stephen). 'Noble virtue in extremes': Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland, patronage and the politics of stoic consultation

Scope and Contents

Birkbeck College, University of London [n.d.] [25]pp.
Box 6, Item 1

CLUCAS (Stephen). Giordano Bruno's Degli Eroici Furori and Fulke Greville's Caelica

Scope and Contents

Xerographed facsimile from Renaissance Studies Vol. 4 No. 2. Oxford University Press, 1990. 201-278pp.
Box 6, Item 2

CLUCAS (Stephen). Hieroglyphic and Angelic messengers : language, angel-magic and alchemy in Elizabethan England

Scope and Contents

Dr Stephen Clucas, Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck College. Parallel Lines : Science & Imagination, Stephen Clucas and Abdul Malik, February 6th 1992. The Voicebox, South Bank. Xerographed copy. [25] pp, final 13 misbound before first 12.
Box 6, Item 3

CLUCAS (Stephen). John Dee: Elizabethan Prospero, or Elizabethen Faustus?

Scope and Contents

[21]pp. Inkjet printed, some minor ms. corrections.
Box 6, Item 4

CLUCAS (Stephen). John Dee's Liber Mysteriorum and the ars notoria : Renaissance magic and mediaeval theurgy

Scope and Contents

[n.p., n.d.] [15]pp.
Box 7, Item 1

CLUCAS (Stephen). Liquid History: Serres and Lucretius

Scope and Contents

CIRCH Michel Serres Conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, May 29 1999. 12pp. With ms. note on Birkbeck compliment slip "Dear Robert, / a copy of a paper which I gave at a recent Birkbeck conference – hope you find it of interest! / Stephen."
Box 7, Item 2

CLUCAS (Stephen). 'No small force': natural philosophy and mathematics in Thomas Gresham's London

Scope and Contents

Xerographed facsimile chapter from Sir Thomas Gresham and Gresham College: Studies in the intellectual history of the London in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 146-173pp.
Box 7, Item 3

CLUCUS (Stephen). Petrifications: writings in/of rock

Scope and Contents

[19]pp. ms corrections. [n.p., n.d.].
Box 7, Item 4

CLUCAS (Stephen). Poetic atomism in seventeenth-century England: Henry More, Thomas Traherne and 'scientific imagination'

Scope and Contents

Renaissance Studies Vol. 5 No. 3 327-340pp. + [2]pp. Pseudepigrapha. Oxford, 1991.
Box 8, Item 1

CLUCAS (Stephen). Robert Cotton's 'A Short view of the Life of Henry the third' and its manuscript presentation in 1614

Scope and Contents

1614: Year of Crisis, Birkbeck College, University of London, Saturday July 25th 1998. 13pp.
Box 8, Item 2

CLUCAS (Stephen). Simulacra et Signacula: the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas in Brunian Mnemonics

Scope and Contents

Einsteinforum, Frances A. Yates: 1hr Werk im Kontext der Renaissance- und Erinnerungsforschung, Berlin, March 8th-10th 1998. 2 illustrations, 31pp.
Box 8, Item 3

CLUCAS (Stephen). 'Thow shalt prevayle against them': John Dee and the Politics of the Elizabethan Court 1575-1585

Scope and Contents

John Dee Colloquium, University of Szeged, July 12-16th 1998. 15pp.
Box 9, Item 1

CONGER (George Perrigo). Theories of Macrocosms and Microcosms in the History of Philosophy

Scope and Contents

Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in the Faculty of Philosophy, Columbia University. Columbia University Press, New York, 1922. Xviii, Xerographed copy. 147pp.
Box 9, Item 2

COUDERT (Allison). Some Theories of a Natural Language from the Renaissance to the Seventeenth Century

Scope and Contents

London, [n.d.]. 56-177pp.
Box 9, Item 3

EDWARDES (Roger). Letters to John Dee, 31 March 1580

Scope and Contents

British Library Cotton Vitelius Ms CVII, fols. 312r – 328v. Word processed transcription [10]pp.
Box 10, Item 1

FAIRFAX (Edward). A Discourse of Witchcraft. c.1621

Scope and Contents

Xerographed facsimile manuscript. 129pp. plus 1 loose leaf ms. facsimile with illustrations.
Box 10, Item 2

FAIRFAX (Edward). A Discourse of Witchcraft

Scope and Contents

Rough Transcript from Manuscript sold at Sotheby's. 1996. [48]pp.
Box 10, Item 3

FORSHAW (Peter). The Chameleon at the Centre of the Universe; Man and His Soul in the writings of Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-94)

Scope and Contents

MA Renaissance Studies, [n.p.], 15th June 1998. 34, 6pp. Inkjet printed in colour, with ms. Note on title page "See you at the Ficino Conference, Robert, Best wishes, Peter Forshaw 4/6/99".
Box 11, Item 1

FOX (Nick). Aurora Undated G 7.45. Ms. Note: "Hitherto untranslated texts pertaining to Leibniz's cosmology

Scope and Contents

To Robert fro Nick Fox. 23/12/99" 24pp. Bound with facsimile copy. With loose leaf: Cosmology in Leibniz and the Kabbalah. Ms. "Notes, Nick Fox. Feb 98."
Box 11, Item 2

[FOX (Nick) NOTES.] VAN HELMOND. Seder Olam Or, The Order of Ages. Wherein the Doctrin is Historically Handled

Scope and Contents

Translated out of Latin, by J. Clark M:D upon the Leave & Recommendation of F.M. Baron Helmont. T. Howkins, London, 1694. Typescript transcription. [10]pp.
Box 11, Item 3

HARKNESS (Deborah). John Dee's Conversation's with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature

Scope and Contents

Cambridge University Press, 1999. Proof copy, corrections in copy. 245pp.
Box 12, Item 1

HARKNESS (Deborah). Managing an Experimental Household; The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy

Scope and Contents

The History of Science Society. 1997. Tipped on to t.p. clipped ms. Note "To Stephen, Deb Harkness". Inkjet copy. [14]pp.
Box 12, Item 2

HARKNESS (Deborah). Shows in the Showstone: A Theatre of Alchemy and Apocalypse in the Angel Conversations of John Dee (1527 – 1608/9)

Scope and Contents

Xerographed copy, originally published in Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): xxx-xx, 32pp.
Box 12, Item 3

HARLEY (Rev. Timothy). Moon Lore

Scope and Contents

Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, London 1885. 296pp. Xerographed facsimile.
Box 13, Item 1

[HARTLEIB PAPERS] A Treatise of the Most Hidden Secrets of the Ancients

Scope and Contents

Xerographed facsimile ms., original held at Sheffield University Library. [32]pp.
Box 13, Item 2

HAUSER (Henri). La Response de Jean Bodin A M. de Malestroit 1568

Scope and Contents

Librarie Armand Colin, Paris, 1932. Xerographed facsimile. Lxxx, 134pp.
Box 14, Item 1

HUTTON (Sarah). ET AL. [VARIA]: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Philosophy: Anne Conway, F.M. van Helmont and the Seventeenth-century Dutch Interchange of Ideas

Scope and Contents

Public lecture given on 20 June 1994 on her appointment as Belle van Zuylen Professor within the faculty of Philosophy of Utrecht University. 1-17pp.; BOUND WITH: HUTTON (Sarah). Henry More, Anne Conway and the Kabbalah: a Cure for the Kabbalist Nightmare? [19]pp. corrections in copy; BOUND WITH: HUTTON (Sarah). Anne Conway Critique d'Henry More: L'Espirit et la Matière. Université de Hertfordshire. French language. 371-384pp. BOUND WITH: HUTTON (Sarah). Et Al. "Mind Senior to the World". Stoicismo e origenismo nella filosofia platonica del Seicento inglese Ms. Note in copy: "Stephen Clucus with best wishes Sarah Hutton 15/10/96". 113-126pp. BOUND WITH: GIGLIONI (Guido). Panpsychism versus Hylozoism; An Interpretation of Some Seventeenth-Century Doctrines of Universal Animation. Acta Comeniana 11 (1995). With ms. Note in copt: "Not Conway, but related – Stephen. P.S. I must tell you about Guido's MONAD dream one day…" 25-45pp.
Box 14, Item 2

JARDINE (Lisa). & Anthony GRAFTON. "Studies for Action": (How Gabriel Harvey Red his Livy)

Scope and Contents

Xerographed copy of article from Past & Present No. 129 (Nov., 1990), pp. 30-78. Under-linings and light annotations in copy.
Box 14, Item 3

LEHRICH (Christopher I.). Reading the World in Triplicate: Reuchlin and Agrippa

Scope and Contents

RSA 1999 Conference Paper: Session – Varieties of Humanism. March 24, 1999. 13pp.
Box 15, Item 1

MERCHANT (Carolyn). The Vitalism of Anne Conway: It's Impact on Leibniz's Concept of the Monad

Scope and Contents

Photocopied article from Journal of the History of Philosophy Volume 17, Number 3, July 1979. [15]pp.
Box 15, Item 2

MERCHANT (Carolyn). Women on Nature: Anne Conway and Other Philosophical Feminists

Scope and Contents

253-268, 330-335pp. Xerographed copy of Chapter 11 of The Death of Nature, Ecology and the Scientific Revolution. [1980].
Box 15, Item 3

MURRI (Dario). Architettura ed ermetismo. Il catalogo della Biblioteca di John Dee (1527 – 1608)

Scope and Contents

100-110pp. In Italian. Photocopy from journal.
Box 15, Item 4

PAGE (Sophie). Magic at St. Augustine's Canterbury in the Late Middle Ages

Scope and Contents

1-20, 1-27pp. Warburg Ph.D Fragment. [n.d.]
Box 16, Item 1

RAYNOLDS (Beatrice). Proponents of Limited Monarchy in Sixteenth Century France: Francis Hotman and Jean Bodin

Scope and Contents

AMS Press, New York. 1968. Xerographed facsimile. 1 folding chart, 210pp.
Box 16, Item 2

REEDS (J.). Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius's Steganographia

Scope and Contents

AT&T Labs – Research, New Jersey. March 10, 1998. 26, [9]pp. With bound in card wrap with drawing of distorted humanoid form and a ms. Letter from Dr. Stephen Clucas: "Birkbeck / 16 : III : 98. / Dear Robert, / Sorry to hear that you have been "body-ridden" – Not so sorry to hear that you promptly began six paintings from your hospital bed!! / Obviously you have no great respect for the concept of 'illness'! I sincerely hope that are [sic] once more in command of your body, and back in your own environment(s). / I hope the enclosed will cheer you up. As you know Jim is a cryptologist, and the style is a little dry (and lacking in 'historian's polish') but the results speak for themselves … I think he's got it! / Please keep this copy strictly to yourself – he asked me not to let anybody else see it until it's published, but I knew you'd be interested – professionalism be damned! / I've suggested that he read Dilwyn Knox's book on Ironia as I think this rhetorical concept would make more sense than his closing remark on humour. / KEE P WELL! / Stephen." This is an early draft of this work. The 26 March 1988 draft has significantly altered the conclusion in accordance with Clucas's suggested reading on rhetoric.
Box 16, Item 3

REEDS (Jim). Solved: The Ciphers in Book III of Trithemius's Steganographia

Scope and Contents

Photostat copy article from Cryptologia Volume XXII Number 4, October 1998. 291-318pp. ms. Note in copy "To Stephen, / I hope to be sending out Dee reprints soon! / Jim."
Box 17, Item 1

[SLOANE MS 299] The Confession of H. Khunrathe

Scope and Contents

1-7, 1-3pp. Word processed transcription of alchemical manuscript held in the BL.
Box 17, Item 2

[SLOANE MS 3191] De Heptarchia Mystica of Dr. John

Scope and Contents

34pp. Transcription of manuscript in BL, sourced from http://www.avesta.org/dee/hm.htm , timestamp 13/09/98.
Box 17, Item 3

SZÔNYI (György E.) Ficino's Talismanic Magic and John Dee's Hieroglyphic Monad

Scope and Contents

Józef Attila Univeristy, Szeged. [n.d. c.1995]. 16pp.
Box 17, Item 4

WACHTERO (Joh. Georgio). Elucidarius Cabalisticus, Sive Reconditae Hebraeorum Philosophiae Brevis & Succincta Recensio

Scope and Contents

Rome, 1706. Xerographed facsimile. 197pp.
Box 18

WITCHES OF WARBOISE] A true and particular observation of a notable piece of Witchcraft practiced by John Samuell the father, Alice Samuell the Mother, & Agnes Samuell their Daughter, of Warboise … 1589

Scope and Contents

Xerographed facsimile, [62]pp