This benefactors' book lists Library gifts from 1626. On this page we see that a number of books were given to us by one Robert Fludd, who likely gifted these not because of any personal links with Jesus College (he matriculated from St. John's), but because, as a good Welshman, he wanted to help out a poorly resourced Welsh College.
Fludd was a successful physician in London with royal patronage, whose practice had its own on-site apothecary, and who employed chemical treatments in medicine, in the manner of Paracelsus. He had a great interest in occult philosphy and released several contaversial publications on his theories of the universe from a Christian, Neoplantonist, Hermetic, Cabbalistic perspective, at a time when Renaissance ideas were reaching their apex and soon to be outmoded by the Scientific Revolution. He was (falsely) accused of being a member of the Rosicrucian order.
