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Title

An Hermetical and philosophic manuduction

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Codex 1691
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6293577
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6293577

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with a few pages in French

Origin

Date

1797

Place

England

Summary

Alchemical handbook of experiments and recipes. Instructions include transmutation of metals, making a small pearl or gemstone larger, creation of and uses for potable gold, and other elixirs, oils, and tinctures. Recipes includes medicinal applications such as flower remedies for asthma, consumption (p. 357), and dropsie (p. 358).

Notes

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

Extent

484 leaves : 213 x 185 (165 x 90) mm. bound to 226 x 202 mm. +

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 484 + i (contemporary paper) leaves; [xxvi], 1-194, 196-614, 596-773, 773-877, 888-913; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. All references in this record are to contemporary pagination.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary gold-tooled leather. Spine leather deteriorating.

Layout

Written in 18 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script in the hand of Charles Rainsford (note with initials, front flyleaf verso)..

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Charles Rainsford (British army officer, fellow of the Royal Society, and alchemist; stamp, p. xxiv); bequeathed by Rainsford to Hugh Percy, Second Duke of Northumberland.
   
• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 603, 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
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800
• Occultism--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Prescriptions
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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