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

Title

Alchemical treatise

Other related names

• Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner
• Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1672
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6293531
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6293531

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

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

• 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. 583, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamps throughout).
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Occultism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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