University of Pennsylvania, Oversize Ms. Codex 111

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS928

Shelfmark:

Oversize Ms. Codex 111

Title:

Alchemical miscellany.

Place:

England

England TGN

Date:

[between 1582 and 1630]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

English, with many works translated from Latin and retaining Latin titles

English WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 96 leaves : paper ; 346 x 223 mm bound to 351 x 226 mm

Former Owner(s):

Bayle, H

H. Bayle WIKIDATA

Leconfield, Henry Wyndham, Baron, 1830-1901

Henry Wyndham, 2nd Baron Leconfield WIKIDATA

Northumberland, Algernon Percy, Earl of, 1602-1668

Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland WIKIDATA

Somerset, Charles Seymour, Duke of, 1662-1748

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset WIKIDATA

Northumberland, Henry Percy, Earl of, 1564-1632

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
Origin: Written in England, after 1582 (f. 43r) and before 1630 (Newhauser, p. 122-123).
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch).
Collation: Paper, 96; 1¹⁰, 2¹⁴, 3¹⁰, 4¹⁶, 5¹⁰, 6¹⁴, 7¹⁰, 8¹⁰(+2); [i], 1-10, [11-95]; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; modern foliation in pencil, upper and lower right recto. Catchwords in lower right, each recto, of texts 4 and 6.
Script: Written in a cursive script, erroneously identified as the hand of Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland (see note on f. [i]), more likely the hand of the first owner, H. Bayle (see R. Newhauser's article, p. 123).
Binding: Contemporary limp vellum with monogram HB on upper cover and title Alchemy on spine; binding loose; vellum cover split and cracked at spine; cover completely detached from front hinge and spine, coming loose from back hinge. Several quires loose; f. 48-49 completely detached..
Watermarks: See The New Briquet, v. 1, p. 72, no. 8081 (Nicholas le Bé of Tryes, ca. 1582).
Sold by Bernard Quaritch Ltd. (London), 1946.
Formerly held in the library at Petworth House, Sussex (shelf number 97 on spine, as described by Alfred John Horwood in Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part I (London, 1877); Appendix to the Sixth Report, p. 309), then owned by Henry Wyndham, Lord Leconfield; while in this library earlier possible owners include Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland...
First owned by H. Bayle (monogram on upper cover, effaced name on f. 58 r; see Newhauser, p. 123).

Keyword:

treatises

poems

Manuscripts, English

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, European

recipes

codices (bound manuscripts)

Early works

Chemistry

Alchemy

History

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9915804573503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3mp4vp3r/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania