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

Title

Alchemical treatise.

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 1672
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935313503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/907935271
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3fq9q640 https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin and Italian

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

Italy

Summary

Alchemical treatise concerning the creation of the philosopher's stone (p. 72) and on transmutation of metals such as gold, silver, lead, and mercury. Also includes a table of contents (p.169).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

124 leaves : 211 x 150 (172 x 110) mm bound to 225 x 161 mm +

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 124 + ii (contemporary paper) leaves; [xxxvi], 1-11, [v], 12-22, [v], 23-29, [v], 30-39, [vi], 41-56, [iv], 57-64, [iv], 65-71, [v], 72-122, [i], 123-152, [ii], 153-168, [169-176]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Layout

Written in 19-20 long lines; ruled in red pencil or crayon.

Decoration

Manicules throughout (for example, p. 115).

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with marginal notes in a second 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. 583, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; 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

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

Licenses

• Text

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Decorations

• 26 — Manicule, p. 26
• 27 — Manicule, p. 27
• 117 — Manicule, p. 117
• 119 — Manicule, p. 119
• 134 — Manicule, p. 134
• 156 — Manicule, p. 156
• 159 — Manicule, p. 159
• 160 — Manicule, p. 160
• 161 — Manicule, p. 161