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

Title

Alchemical compendium.

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

Oversize Ms. Codex 1683
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935633503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913600157
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32z12q97 https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

German, with some words in Latin and marginal notes in English

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

Germany?

Summary

Extracts from works on chemistry and alchemy. Includes sections on distillation, calcination, fermentation, and discussion of the philosophers' stone. Also includes a list of contents (p. iii-viii).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

164 leaves : 300 x 205 (280 x 160) mm bound to 313 230 mm

Foliation

Paper, 164 leaves; [xvi], 1-15, 17-268, 268-320; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment. Several leaves are detached.

Layout

Written in 45 long lines.

Script

Written in a semi-cursive script by a single 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. 594, 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
• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--Early works to 1800
• Occultism
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, German
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, Latin

Keywords

• 18th century
• German
• Germany
• Paper
• Alchemy
• Science

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