This is a marble copy of the ‘holy table’ constructed by John Dee in 1582 follow ing the instructions of the angel Uriel, whose attendance had been effected with the assistance of Dee’s ‘skryer’ Edward Kelly. The characters inside the diagram belong to Dee’s ‘Enochian Alphabet’.

The diagram of the holy table was published by Meric Casaubon in 1659. This marble version was presented to the Bodleian Library in 1750 by Richard Rawlinson, according to whom it had previously belonged to the astrologer William Lilly.