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Flambeau des vrais rosecroix ou des sages

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  • 18th century
  • Language: French
  • Content type: ManuscriptPrimary source
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Collection of alchemical recipes and instructions for the purification, distillation, and transmutation of metals and ores such as gold, silver, cinnabar, lead, antimony, and mercury. Also includes a few recipes for elixirs and oils as well as instructions on how to construct different types of furnaces for alchemical uses, with accompanying illustrations throughout.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Alchemy and Hermeticism and Occultism and esotericism.

  • Occultism and esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Occultism”. Retained metadata contains “Occultism” in the subject metadata and “occult” in the cataloging notes.

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  • Alchemy and Hermeticism

    Controlled discovery queries from colenda matched “Alchemy”. Retained metadata contains “Alchemy” in the subject metadata and “alchemist” in the cataloging notes.

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University of Pennsylvania digitized manuscript

178 leaves : paper ; 195 x 159 (150 x 120) mm x bound to 202 x 165 mm; Binding: Contemporary parchment. Paper is stained, weak, and deteriorating along the gutter due to moisture damage, particularly the inside of the upper hinge and the first two leaves. Second quire is almost completely detached due to broken sewing.; Decoration: Seventeen watercolor illustrations of alchemical apparatus (for example, f. 59v); headings and underlining in red ink throughout.; Foliation: Paper, 178; [ii], 1-62, 62-120, 120, 122, 122-149, [xxv]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper center recto.; French.; Layout: Written in 24-26 long lines; ruled in lead.; Ms. codex.; Origin: Written in London in 1798 (f. i recto).; Purchased with support from the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.; Script: Written in a cursive script by what appears to be a single hand.; Title from caption title (f. 1r).

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  • ark:/81431/p33b5w99d

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Cataloging notes

  • Colenda collection: Charles Rainsford Collection of Alchemical and Occult Manuscripts (University of Pennsylvania)
  • Penn Libraries catalog identifier: 9962935283503681
  • Physical location: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1670
  • 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. 581, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, 1809-2014 (bookplate, inside upper cover; stamps throughout).; 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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