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

Title

Notes on cabala.

Authors

• 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 1702
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935863503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/919001728
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3g73760g https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

circa 1783

Place

England

Summary

Notes on cabala collected by Charles Rainsford and copied into a commonplace book containing 10 introductory pages of printed material including a title page, introduction, and template for an alphabetical index, partially filled in by Rainsford. Sections include how to predict a plentiful or scarce season by observing the type of insect on an oak apple (p. 24), notes on the Persian magi (p. 22), the origin of the Evil Principle (p. 94), the Symbols of Pythagoras (p. 127), and writings on the book of Enoch and the seventy-two divine names of angels (p. 162).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

191 leaves : 245 x 185 mm bound to 251 x 205 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 191 + i (contemporary paper) leaves; [x], 1-4, 4-5, 5, 7-98, 100-184, [185-372]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half leather.

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

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Codices
• Hybrid books
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• 185 — Blank leaves start
• 372 — Blank leaves end