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

Title

Sefer Raziel HaMalach... etc..

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 1674
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935413503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908596980
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tt4ft68 https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with some passages in Latin, notes in English, and Hebrew characters

Origin

Date

between 1700 and 1799

Place

Italy?

Summary

Collection of cabalistic works with an emphasis on angels. The primary text is an Italian and Latin translation of excerpts from the Sefer Raziel HaMalach in which Solomon recounts how the angel Raziel delivered a book of divine secrets to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Raziel was the angel stationed beside God's throne and thus recorded the secret knowledge that was discussed. The text includes instructions for practical magic such as how to attain one's desires (p. 4), cure illness (p. 10), defeat enemies (p. 33), and gain someone's love (p. 53). Also includes sections on divine names, numerological tables, and invocations.

Notes

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• See also UPenn Ms. Codex 1685 for a copy of this manuscript with a partial English translation in the hand of Charles Rainsford.
   
• Ms. codex.
   
• 1. p.1-43: Compendio del libro dello Cephar Raziel id est Angelus Magni Secreti. 2. p.53-62: Compendium totius s[anctissima] cabala. 3. p.65-106: Regole di M. Gio. Adamo Wetter. 4. p.109-114: Vero modo d'acquistare la kabola angelica.
   

Extent

61 leaves : 210 x 150 mm bound to 217 x 154 mm

Foliation

Paper, 61; [iv], 1-43, [xi], 1-8, [xlvi], 1-6, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [iv], 1-118; modern pagination in pencil, lower right corners. All references in this record are to the modern pagination.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary pasteboards.

Script

Written in various cursive and semi-cursive scripts by many different hands.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by the Jesuit College in Naples (note, p. iii).
   
• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 585, 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.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
   

Subjects topical

• Magic--Early works to 1800
• Cabala--Early works to 1800
• Cabala
• Angels--Early works to 1800
• Magic
• Angels
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Occultism
• Numerology
• Numerology--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Italian
• Codices

Keywords

• 18th century
• Italian
• Jewish
• Italy
• Paper
• Magic
• Kabbalah

Licenses

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