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Title

Axiomes de medicinne.

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 1660
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962918213503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/897474784
• https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/ https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000281 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3251fm3m

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

French

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

France?

Summary

Collection of alchemical recipes for medicinal use. Includes introductory sections on the nature of maladies, their causes, and their cures. Also contains five leaves of charts listing ingredients and their properties (f. 8r-13v). Recipes include elixirs for epilepsy or stroke, purgatives, stomachics, remedies for worms, deafness, toothaches, gangrene and a number of powders, oils, syrups, and spirits with detailed information on their creation and application.

Notes

• Title from caption title (f. 4r).
   
• Incipit: Le plus celebre remede est ce lui qui prepare la matiere morbifique... (f. 4r).
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

116 leaves : 151 x 99 (128 x 78) mm bound to 155 x 104 mm

Foliation

Paper, 116; 1-116, back pastedown numbered 117; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto. A number of folios have been cut or torn away.

Support

Paper

Binding

18th-century gilded leather over pasteboard; spine leather is deteriorating and hinges are splitting. Some staining of leaves due to water damage.

Layout

Written in 22-24 long lines.

Decoration

Pen and ink diagrams of alchemical equipment (f. 50r, 69v); drawing of rose, astrological symbols, and pen trials in red ink (inside lower cover); titles, initials, and symbols throughout in red ink.

Script

Written in a semi-cursive script by a single hand, with notes by several additional hands.

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. 573, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, f. 1r; stamps throughout, for example, f. 4r).
   
• 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--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Occultism

Genres

• Codices
• Diagrams
• Drawings (visual works)
• Prescriptions
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, French

Keywords

• 18th century
• French
• France
• Paper
• Alchemy
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

• Text

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  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 50r — Drawing, f. 50r
• fol. 69v — Drawing, f. 69v
• Inside back cover — Drawing, Inside back cover