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Title

Libro per brevem :

Authors

• Cagnacci, Luigi Maria
• 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 1663
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962934883503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/898476132
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tq5rf8c https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with some Latin

Origin

Date

after 1689

Place

Florence

Summary

Divided into two books, with the first on mathematics and judicial astrology and the second book concerning palmistry. Includes an introduction by the compiler (f. 2r) and a table of contents (f. 2v-4v).

Notes

• Title from title page of predominant work (f. 1r).
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

154 leaves : 297 x 210 (265 x 160) mm bound to 310 x 217 mm

Foliation

Paper, 154 leaves; [viii], 1, [i], 2, [i], 3, [i], 4, [i], 5, [i], 6, [i], 7, [i], 8, [i], 9-30, 30-106, 106-217, [i], 1-3, [lxvii], contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [1-154], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto. References in this record are to modern foliation.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary leather with metal clasps, one partially lacking.

Layout

Written in 26-30 long lines.

Decoration

Pen and ink title vignette of a globe against a background of mountains and a constellation with a border containing winged figures, a dog, and the motto Altior e gelidis elevato (f. 1r), large decorated initial with pen and ink drawings of human figures (f. 20r), several smaller pen and ink initials and marginal decorations with bird heads (f. 2r, 5r, 7r, 9r), a volvelle (f. 16r), numerous diagrams (for example, f. 11v, 16v), diagrams of hands for use in palm reading (f. 122r, 134v, 136r, 138r, 139v, 141r, 142r, 143v) with some outlined in red ink (f. 151r-154v), occasional decorated headings (f. 2v), and astronomical symbols used throughout.

Script

Written in an Italian 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.
   
• 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.
   
• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 574, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamps throughout).
   

Subjects topical

• Astrology
• Astrology
• Divination
• Divination
• Mathematics--Early works to 1800
• Mathematics
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Occultism
• Palmistry
• Palmistry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Compendiums
• Diagrams
• Manuscripts, European
• Volvelles
• Manuscripts, Italian
• Drawings (visual works)

Keywords

• 17th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Paper
• Diagrams
• Astrology
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1663: Libro per brevem : are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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  URL

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Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated title page, f. 1r
• fol. 2r — Decoration, Bird, f. 2r
• fol. 5r — Decoration, Bird, f. 5r
• fol. 5r — Diagram, f. 5r
• fol. 5v — Diagram, f. 5v
• fol. 7r — Diagram, f. 7r
• fol. 7v — Diagram, f. 7v
• fol. 8v — Diagram, f. 8v
• fol. 9v — Diagram, f. 9v
• fol. 11v — Diagram, f. 11v
• fol. 13v — Diagram, f. 13v
• fol. 14r — Diagram, f. 14r
• fol. 16r — Volvelle, f. 16r
• fol. 16v — Diagram, f. 16v
• fol. 17r — Diagram, f. 17r
• fol. 20r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 20r
• fol. 20v — Table, f. 20v
• fol. 23r — Diagram, f. 23r
• fol. 24r — Diagram, f. 24r
• fol. 26r — Diagram, f. 26r
• fol. 27r — Diagram, f. 27r
• fol. 44r — Diagram, f. 44r
• fol. 46r — Diagram, f. 46r
• fol. 54v — Table, f. 54v
• fol. 60v — Diagram, f. 60v
• fol. 73v — Table, f. 73v
• fol. 87v — Table, f. 87v
• fol. 99r — Diagram, f. 99r
• fol. 122r — Diagram, f. 122r
• fol. 134v — Diagram, f. 134v
• fol. 136r — Diagram, f. 136r
• fol. 138r — Diagram, f. 138r
• fol. 139v — Diagram, f. 139v
• fol. 141r — Diagram, f. 141r
• fol. 142r — Diagram, f. 142r
• fol. 143v — Diagram, f. 143v
• fol. 151r — Diagram, f. 151r
• fol. 151v — Diagram, f. 151v
• fol. 152r — Diagram, f. 152r
• fol. 152v — Diagram, f. 152v
• fol. 153r — Diagram, f. 153r
• fol. 153v — Diagram, f. 153v
• fol. 154r — Diagram, f. 154r
• fol. 154v — Diagram, f. 154v