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

Title

Medical and philosophical compendium

Other related names

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

Call number

Ms. Codex 1696
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 6293581
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/6293581

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

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

• 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. 610-614, 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
• Druzes--Early works to 1800
• Philosophy--Early works to 1800
• Occultism--Early works to 1800

Genres

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

Licenses

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