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Title

Alchemical compendium

Authors

• Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637
• Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
• Valentine, Basil

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Codex 1675
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6293543
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6293543

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin and German, with occasional words in Greek and English

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

Italy?

Summary

Compendium of alchemical treatises by various authors. Includes a list of contents (p. i). Sections discuss subjects such as the properties of light, phosphorus, and mystical numbers, with references to noted alchemists such as Robert Fludd, Ramon Llull, Basil Valentine, and many others.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

150 leaves : 305 x 221 mm. bound to 314 x 225 mm

Foliation

Paper, 150 leaves; [iv]; 1-296; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Front and back pastedowns are detached from boards.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

Written in cursive and semi-cursive scripts by at least two hands.

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. 586, 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
• Drawings
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Table of contents

• i — Table of contents, p. i

Decorations

• 245 — Diagram, p. 245