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

Title

A compendium of the book called sepher Raziel.

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 1685
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935673503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/910726728
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tm7235w https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English and Italian, with occasional Hebrew words

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

England?

Summary

Partial English translation and incomplete copy of UPenn Ms. Codex 1674, a collection of cabalistic works with an emphasis on angels, in the hand of Charles Rainsford. Contains incomplete copies of the first three sections, ending after p. 66 of UPenn Ms. Codex 1674.

Notes

• See also UPenn Ms. Codex 1674 for the original manuscript from which this text was copied and translated.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 3).
   
• Ms. codex.
   

Extent

182 leaves : 372 x 240 mm bound to 381 x 252 mm +

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 182 + i (contemporary paper); [lii], 1-111, [112-312]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. Pages ii-l and 112-312 are blank.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment with gold-stamped British royal coat of arms on the upper and lower covers.

Script

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

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.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
   
• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 596, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamps throughout).
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

• Manuscripts, European
• Drawings (visual works)
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, Italian
• Codices

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• Italian
• Jewish
• England
• Paper
• Magic
• Kabbalah

Licenses

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