Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1674: Sefer Raziel HaMalach... etc.. University of Pennsylvania 2017-11-29 2017-11-29 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1674: Sefer Raziel HaMalach... etc.. are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Title supplied by cataloger. See also UPenn Ms. Codex 1685 for a copy of this manuscript with a partial English translation in the hand of Charles Rainsford. Ms. codex. 1. p.1-43: Compendio del libro dello Cephar Raziel id est Angelus Magni Secreti. 2. p.53-62: Compendium totius s[anctissima] cabala. 3. p.65-106: Regole di M. Gio. Adamo Wetter. 4. p.109-114: Vero modo d'acquistare la kabola angelica. 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1674 9962935413503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/908596980 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tt4ft68 https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/ Collection of cabalistic works with an emphasis on angels. The primary text is an Italian and Latin translation of excerpts from the Sefer Raziel HaMalach in which Solomon recounts how the angel Raziel delivered a book of divine secrets to Adam and Eve after their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Raziel was the angel stationed beside God's throne and thus recorded the secret knowledge that was discussed. The text includes instructions for practical magic such as how to attain one's desires (p. 4), cure illness (p. 10), defeat enemies (p. 33), and gain someone's love (p. 53). Also includes sections on divine names, numerological tables, and invocations. Italian, with some passages in Latin, notes in English, and Hebrew characters Sefer Raziel HaMalach... etc.. Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania) former owner Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809 former owner Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817

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 61 leaves : 210 x 150 mm bound to 217 x 154 mm Paper, 61; [iv], 1-43, [xi], 1-8, [xlvi], 1-6, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners; [iv], 1-118; modern pagination in pencil, lower right corners. All references in this record are to the modern pagination. Written in various cursive and semi-cursive scripts by many different hands.

Contemporary pasteboards.

Written in Italy[?] in the 18th century.

between 1700 and 1799 Italy? Formerly owned by the Jesuit College in Naples (note, p. iii). Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 585, 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. Book Type Accounts Almanac Anthology Antiphonary Armorial Bible Biography Book of Hours Breviary Catalog Chronicle Collection of Sermons Commentary Compendium Contract Court records Dictionary Document Dogale Drama Encyclopedia Epic Estate inventory Friendship book Genealogy Glossary Gospel Lectionary Gospels Government records Gradual Halakhah Haggadah Homilary Horologion Hybrid book Hymnal Inventory Koran Land survey Lectionary Lecture notes Mass book Miscellany Missal Passion play Pontifical Portolan chart Prayer book Private devotional text Processional Protective scroll Psalter Psalter-Hours Qur`an Recipe book Register Saint's Life Scribal manual Song book Speech or address Torah Treatise Will Century 6th century 7th century 8th century 9th century 10th century 11th century 12th century 13th century 14th century 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century Culture Abbasid Arabic Armenian Ashkenazi Austrian Bohemian Byzantine Carolingian Catalan Chinese Christian Coptic Dutch Egyptian English Ethiopian Fatimid Filipino Flemish French German Greek Hungarian Indian Islamic Italian Jewish Karaite Mamluk Mexican Mughal Ottoman Ottonian Persian Portuguese Qajar Rajput Russian Safavid Sephardi Spanish Swiss Timurid Turkish Yemenite Descriptive term Accordion book Album Annotated Binding Calendar Calligraphy Caroline minuscule Chart Charter Colophon Damage Diagrams Drawing Early Abbasid script Engraving Forgery Fragment Gloss Gothic Gothic book hand Grisaille Grotesques Headpiece Heraldry Historiated initial Humanistic Illumination Illustration Inhabited initial Kufic Manicules Medallion Micrography Miniature Missing leaves Musical notation New Abbasid style Notable binding Original binding Ornament Painting Palimpsest Paper Penwork initial Puzzle initial Ragini Romanesque Scrapbook Scroll Scroll-work initial Seals Tables Textura Treasure binding Watermark White-vine lettering Woodcuts Geography Afghanistan Armenia Austria Belgium Central Arab lands (Near East) Central Asia China Croatia Czech Republic Egypt England Ethiopia Flanders France Germany Greece Hungary India Iran Iraq Israel Italy Maghreb Mexico Morocco Netherlands Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sub-Saharan (West) Africa Switzerland Turkey United States Wales Yemen Other Alchemy Allegory Animal culture Aphorisms Astrology Astronomy Biblical Binding waste Cartography Catholic church Chemistry Church Fathers City planning Cosmology Cryptography Devotion Dialogue Ethics Financial records Fortune-telling Franciscans Friendship Games Geography Geomancy Grammar History Index Instructional materials Kabbalah Legal Lists Literature -- Poetry Literature -- Prose Liturgy Logic Magic Maps Maritime Mathematics Medieval romance Metaphysics Meteorology Military art and science Mineralogy Mysticism Penitential Philosophy Piyutim Polemic Responsa Rhetoric Schedule Science Science -- Medicine Scripture Shipbuilding Statutes Storytelling Sufism Theology Wine and winemaking Magic--Early works to 1800 Cabala--Early works to 1800 Cabala Angels--Early works to 1800 Magic Angels Occultism--Early works to 1800 Occultism Numerology Numerology--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts, European Manuscripts, Italian Codices 18th century Italian Jewish Italy Paper Magic Kabbalah