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[Alchemical compilation].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Oversize Ms. Codex 1683
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Alchemy--Early works to 1800.
- Alchemy.
- Chemistry--Early works to 1800.
- Chemistry.
- Occultism--Early works to 1800.
- Occultism.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- Manuscripts, German.
- Manuscripts, Latin -- 18th century.
- Manuscripts, European.
- Penn 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. 594, 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.
- Physical Description:
- 164 leaves : paper ; 300 x 205 (280 x 160) mm bound to 313 230 mm
- Place of Publication:
- [Germany?], [between 1750 and 1799]
- Language Note:
- German, with some words in Latin and marginal notes in English.
- Summary:
- Extracts from works on chemistry and alchemy. Includes sections on distillation, calcination, fermentation, and discussion of the philosophers' stone. Also includes a list of contents (p. iii-viii).
- Notes:
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Pagination: Paper, 164 leaves; [xvi], 1-15, 17-268, 268-320; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
- Layout: Written in 45 long lines.
- Script: Written in a semi-cursive script by a single hand.
- Binding: Contemporary parchment. Several leaves are detached.
- Origin: Written in Germany[?] in the second half of the 18th century.
- Local Notes:
- Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.
- Cited as:
- Alchemical Compilation (Ms. Codex 1683). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 913600158
- Online:
- Unique at Penn blog post
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