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Peniarth Manuscripts Collection Dowson, James
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Speculum mathematicum,

A manuscript of the Speculum Mathematicum sive de numerorum figuratorum resolutione of James Dowson of Chester (printed 1614), with astrological notes; and 'Shorte astrologicall judgments of the 12 howses of the heavens, first written by Gerrardus and after by Cornelius Agrippa augmented'.

James Dowson.

Philosophical tracts,

Notes, disputations and discourses on philosophy and logic; a list of questions discussed at Dublin University, 19 April 1599; a short discourse of objections and answers touching the philosophers' stone by Ja: Doueson; etc.

James Dowson [?and others].

Music, medicine, politics, etc.

An abstract of a work on music; an incomplete criticism of a theological work; extracts from a book on logic by Crellius; medical notes and recipes; and an imperfect copy of a tract, by Ja[mes] Do[w]son, on the union of England and Scotland, dedicated to James I.

James Dowson and others.