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Title

Theosophic and cabalistic tracts translated from the Latin edition /

Authors

• Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637
• 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

Oversize Ms. Codex 1688
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935993503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913833387
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3h41jr3b https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, with occasional words in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

England

Summary

Charles Rainsford's English translation of the first two books of Robert Fludd's Utriusque Cosmi Historia and other works. Includes an alphabetical index (p. iii). Several leaves have been pasted in and are now detached (p. 361-366).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i).
   

Extent

240 leaves : 314 x 200 (290 x 140) mm bound to 320 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, 240; [xxvi], 1-11, 13-260, 262-354, 356, 356-365, [i], 366, [i], 366-395, 395, 397-449, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather. Upper cover and first quire detached. Spine leather deteriorating. Moisture damage along upper portion of gutter.

Layout

Written in 26 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of Charles Rainsford.

Provenance

• 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.
   
• 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. 600, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamps throughout).
   

Subjects topical

• Cabala
• Cabala--Early works to 1800
• Cosmology--Early works to 1800
• Occultism
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Cosmology

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• England
• Paper
• Kabbalah
• Cosmology

Licenses

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