Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1699: Curious experiments in natural magick and cabalistic from Albertus Parvus. University of Pennsylvania 2017-10-13 2017-10-13 These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1699: Curious experiments in natural magick and cabalistic from Albertus Parvus. 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/. Ms. codex. Title from title page (p. i). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206 University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1699 9962936093503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/918899839 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zc7rw97 https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/ Collection of instructions from Le Petit Albert, an 18th-century magical handbook, for conducting alchemical and cabalistic experiments and recipes concerning matters of love (p. 12), health (p. 65), and luck (p. 39) as well as other applications such as preventing dogs from barking at you (p. 48), preventing the effects of wine (p. 51), growing grapes and melons (p. 61), and creating talismans (p. 68). Also includes an alphabetical index (p. 261-266). A bifolium laid into the manuscript includes instructions for several different methods of how to catch plenty of fish and to make pigeons come to your dove house. English, Italian, and Latin Curious experiments in natural magick and cabalistic from Albertus Parvus. Albert, Petit 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 209 [=309] Blank leaves start 260 [=360] Blank leaves end 261 [=361] Index

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 184 leaves : 198 x 145 (166 x 118) mm bound to 204 x 157 mm + Paper, 184 leaves; [ii], 1-247, 148-209, [210-266]; contemporary pagination in ink, modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Written in 15-18 long lines. Written in a cursive script in the hand of Charles Rainsford. Pen and ink drawing of piece of horse flesh (p. 12) and of talismans (p. 79); alchemical symbols throughout. Diagram, p. 12 Diagram, p. 79

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Written in England[?] in the second half of the 18th century.

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