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

Title

Final testament of Nicolas Flamel.

Authors

• Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)

Other related names

• Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93028960)
• Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1706
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9962935913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/919206370
• https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/ https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dv1cp7m

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

English and French

Origin

Date

between 1750 and 1799

Place

England?

Summary

Copy of a French manuscript and an English translation purported to be the last will and testament of Nicolas Flamel originally written by him in 1414 (p. 1), but most likely composed in the 18th century. The introduction states that the manuscript from which it was copied was originally written backwards to make it more difficult to decipher (p. 1).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

99 leaves : 175 x 111 mm bound to 174 x 112 mm

Foliation

Paper, 99 leaves; 46 manuscript leaves interleaved with 53 leaves of blotting paper; [1-92]; modern pagination in pencil, lower outer corners of manuscript leaves. Pages 71-92 are blank. Irregular contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners. All references in this record are to modern pagination.

Support

Paper

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. 623, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
   

Subjects topical

• Alchemy--Early works to 1800
• Alchemy
• Occultism--Early works to 1800
• Occultism

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English
• Manuscripts, European

Keywords

• 18th century
• English
• French
• England
• Paper
• Alchemy

Licenses

• Text

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