Theosophic and cabalistic tracts translated from the Latin edition

Contributor:

Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809 (translator, scribe)

Name:

Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637; Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1750

Description:

Charles Rainsford's English translation of the first two books of Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi historia and other works. Includes an alphabetical index (p. iii). Several leaves have been pasted in and are now detached (p. 361-366).

Language:

English; Latin; Hebrew; Greek, Modern (1453-)

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. 600, 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.; Rainsford, Charles, 1728-1809, former owner, translator, scribe.; Northumberland, Hugh Percy, Duke of, 1742-1817, former owner.

Relation:

Unique at Penn blog post: https://repository.upenn.edu/uniqueatpenn/23/

Subject:

Cabala -- Early works to 1800; Cabala; Cosmology -- Early works to 1800; Cosmology; Occultism -- Early works to 1800; Occultism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); translations (documents); Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

240 leaves : paper; 314 x 200 (290 x 140) mm bound to 320 x 210 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page (p. i).; Pagination: Paper, 240; [xxvi], 1-11, 13-260, 262-354, 356, 356-365, [i], 366, [i], 366-395, 395, 397-449, [iv]; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.; Layout: Written in 26 long lines.; Script: Written in a cursive script in the hand of Charles Rainsford.; Binding: Contemporary leather. Upper cover and first quire detached. Spine leather deteriorating. Moisture damage along upper portion of gutter.; Origin: Written in England in the second half of the 18th century.; Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; English, with occasional words in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1688