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

Title

Medical and philosophical 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

Ms. Codex 1696
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935813503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/917935770
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3862bc7r https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English, with some Greek and a few words in Hebrew

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

Gibraltar?

Summary

Collection of works copied by Charles Rainsford that includes texts on the Druze people and their religion, classical philosophers, and a final section of medical recipes and remedies. Also includes a partial list of contents (p. 30). There is a cracked but intact red wax seal on p. 80.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

138 leaves : 193 x 158 (165 x 115) mm bound to 200 x 168 mm

Foliation

Paper, 138 leaves; [1-240, 1-3, 3-35]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Script

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

Provenance

• Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 610-614, 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); 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
• Druzes--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Druzes
• Occultism

Genres

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

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• Paper
• Science -- Medicine
• Philosophy

Licenses

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