A1. Editorial And Manuscript Orientation

Early Angel Conversations, 1581-1583

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A1. Editorial And Manuscript Orientation - Subsections. The editions introduce the surviving early angel diaries as records of "mystical exercises" beginning in late 1581 and continuing into 1583.

Summary

The editions introduce the surviving early angel diaries as records of "mystical exercises" beginning in late 1581 and continuing into 1583. The key manuscript context is Sloane MS 3188 and related witnesses. The editors explain the difficulty of Dee's hand, the mixed Latin and English, the problem of destroyed or dispersed diary books, and the overlap with later printed material in Casaubon. For LLM reading, this section is important for provenance, names, abbreviations, and deciding which duplicate PDFs are witnesses of the same text rather than distinct writings.