Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames

Folger bibliographic ID: 270907
Folger call number: FILM Fo. 236.10
Folger holdings ID: 357033
Accession Number: cs2203

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

General notes

In English and Latin 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) Sold in sale of Marquess of Cholmondeley Library (Sotheby Sale, 17-20 March, 1925, no. 450) Purchased from Maggs, 1932 (cat. 569, no. 204) Also available on microfilm

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

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2009. To Sleep Perchance to Dream

Extended title: Oneirologia, or, A briefe discourse of the nature of dreames 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, by Richard Haydocke. 1605
Alternate titles: Briefe discourse of the nature of dreames

Dreams

author: Haydock, Richard, active 1588-1605
former owner: Cholmondeley Library