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Title

An Hermetical and philosophic manuduction.

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 1691
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935773503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/913957224
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34x54p3h https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

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

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

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

• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 603, 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; stamp, p. xxiv); 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
• Alchemy
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric--Early works to 1800
• Occultism
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

Genres

• Codices
• Manuals (instructional materials)
• Manuscripts, European
• Manuscripts, English
• Prescriptions

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• England
• Paper
• Alchemy
• Science -- Medicine

Licenses

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