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Axiomes de medicinne

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  • 18th century
  • Language: French
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Collection of alchemical recipes for medicinal use. Includes introductory sections on the nature of maladies, their causes, and their cures. Also contains five leaves of charts listing ingredients and their properties (f. 8r-13v). Recipes include elixirs for epilepsy or stroke, purgatives, stomachics, remedies for worms, deafness, toothaches, gangrene and a number of powders, oils, syrups, and spirits with detailed information on their creation and application.

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  • Occultism and esotericism

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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

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116 leaves : paper ; 151 x 99 (128 x 78) mm bound to 155 x 104 mm; Binding: 18th-century gilded leather over pasteboard; spine leather is deteriorating and hinges are splitting. Some staining of leaves due to water damage.; Decoration: Pen and ink diagrams of alchemical equipment (f. 50r, 69v); drawing of rose, astrological symbols, and pen trials in red ink (inside lower cover); titles, initials, and symbols throughout in red ink.; Foliation: Paper, 116; 1-116, back pastedown numbered 117; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto. A number of folios have been cut or torn away.; French.; Incipit: Le plus celebre remede est ce lui qui prepare la matiere morbifique... (f. 4r).; Layout: Written in 22-24 long lines.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Probably written in France in the second half of the 18th century.; Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; Script: Written in a semi-cursive script by a single hand, with notes by several additional hands.; Title from caption title (f. 4r).

1750—French—Public download

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9962918213503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1660
  • 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.; Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner.; Owned by the 2nd through 12th Dukes of Northumberland, ms. 573, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, f. 1r; stamps throughout, for example, f. 4r).; Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner.; Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 15 July 2014, as part of Lot 411.
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