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Internet Archive and Getty Research Institute. Manly Palmer Hall collection, Box 1. Original JP2 scan images and scandata. https://archive.org/details/manlypalmerhabox01hall

University of Amsterdam and Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica. Catalogue record PH400, Livre des figures hieroglyphes avec l'explication des fables des poëtes, des mysteres du christianisme, de la chymie et de la pharmacie suivant les nombres. Comparable manuscript; not substituted for the Getty witness. https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.39847

Bibliothèque nationale de France. Alchemy Instruments and Symbols. Description of Français 14765. https://fantasy.bnf.fr/en/grand/fan_367.php

Biblical references are given by book, chapter, and verse. Locations can be checked at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Bible site, https://bible.usccb.org/bible. The manuscript's own French quotations and adaptations are translated directly.

Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius. De occulta philosophia libri tres. Especially Book III on divine names, spirits, the soul, and opinions concerning the dead. A parallel to the manuscript’s poetic sequence occurs in III.41. Public historical English text: https://esotericarchives.com/agrippa/agripp3c.htm ; general Book III: https://esotericarchives.com/agrippa/op3.htm

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Encyclopédie, first edition. Tacahamaca. Historical description of the aromatic resin and its producing tree. Public transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L’Encyclopédie/1re_édition/TACAHAMACA

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