Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Compendium alchimiae.

Authors

• Johannes, de Garlandia, active 13th century
• Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner
• Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028960)

Call number

Ms. Codex 1664
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935933503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898474369
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x921j4r https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

Italy?

Summary

Alchemical treatise attributed to John of Garland concerning minerals, elixirs, the Smaragdine Tablet, a popular piece of Hermetica that was reputed to contain the secret to the creation of the philosopher's stone, and an alphabetical list of alchemical synonyms. Includes occasional references to works by other authors such as the 16th-century alchemist Isabella Cortese and the Dominican friar Vincent of Beauvais (p. 4) and a list of contents (p. ii).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

79 leaves : 165 x 100 (127 x 77) mm bound to 174 x 105 mm

Foliation

79 leaves; [iv], 1-92, 97-115, [116-153], 156, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Horizontal catchwords, lower right corners. Pages 93-96 of the text appear to be lacking.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Layout

Written in 25-27 long lines.

Script

Written in a semi-cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.

Provenance

• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
   
• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 575, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (initials, p. iii; stamps throughout).
   
• Formerly owned by Charles Rainsford (British army officer, fellow of the Royal Society, and alchemist); bequeathed by Rainsford to Hugh Percy, Second Duke of Northumberland.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Alchemy
• Occultism
• Occultism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 18th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Alchemy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 1 — De praeparatione Elixir Libellus, p.1
• 15 — De Mineralibus, Liber, p.15
• 90 — Expositio tabula smaragdi, p.90
• 113 — Synonimorum in Arte Alchimistica expositio, p.113