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Title

Alchemical compendium.

Authors

• Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637
• Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316
• Valentine, Basil
• Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028960)
• Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1675
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935433503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910729860
• https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/ https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30g3h03m

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

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

• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Ms. codex.
   

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

• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 586, 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

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

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings (visual works)
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Latin

Keywords

• Compendium
• 18th century
• German
• Italian
• Paper
• Italy
• Alchemy

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• i — Table of contents, p. i

Decorations

• 245 — Diagram, p. 245