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Title

Collection of extracts related to the fraternity of the RC.

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 1684
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935653503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913790850
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p36q1sn3z https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, with some Latin, a few lines in Greek, and Hebrew characters on leaf laid into manuscript

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

England

Summary

Collection of excerpts from treatises concerning Rosicrucianism compiled by and copied in the hand of Charles Rainsford, with a general preface at the beginning (p. xxxi). A letter addressed to Joseph Banks is laid into the manuscript between p. 140-141 and contains Hebrew characters. Includes an alphabetical index at the beginning (p. iii-xxx) and a table of contents at the end (p. 676).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (p. i).
   

Extent

357 leaves : 236 x 186 (215 x 145) mm bound to 246 x 205 mm +

Foliation

Paper, 357; [xxxii], 1-3, [i], 1-149, 148-277, [278-676]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half leather.

Layout

Written in 16-18 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of Charles Rainsford.

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Rosicrucians--Early works to 1800
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Rosicrucians
• Occultism

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• England
• Paper

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