The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Name: The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I
Author: Attributed to Abraham the Jew

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume ILucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being · Manuscript 125v · Scan 286

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dans cet œuvre les couleurs sont plus pourprées et célestes que noires. Il est néanmoins certain que par toutes ces imbibitions, toutes les couleurs qui sont dans le monde paraîtront avant que notre Roi vienne, avant qu’il vainque et fasse périr tout. C’est pourquoi ils ont dépeint ce roi vêtu d’une robe variée de plusieurs couleurs assis et venant sur les nuées, car dans ce temps une partie de la substance encore volatile et qui n’est pas encore fixe et mêlée radicalement avec les parties du soufre fixe, monte au haut du vaisseau, et descend afin de recevoir la vertu supérieure et inférieure, parce que le corps reçoit la nature de l’âme glorifiée et fixe et que l’âme fixe et éternelle se revêtit de la forme du corps spirituel et volatil jusqu’à ce qu’il n’y ait qu’une substance parfaite et éternelle, quoiqu’elle eût été auparavant de plusieurs natures et substances.

L’humidité mercurielle représentée par le Dragon les cavaliers et les soldats qui au commencement

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being

Ms. 125v

the colors in this work to be more purple and celestial than black. It is nevertheless certain that through all these imbibitions every color in the world will appear before our King comes, before he conquers and destroys everything. That is why they have depicted the king clothed in a robe varied with many colors, seated and coming upon clouds. At this time a portion of the substance, still volatile and not yet fixed and radically mingled with the parts of fixed sulfur, rises to the vessel’s top and descends to receive the upper and lower power. For the body receives the nature of the glorified and fixed soul, while the fixed and eternal soul clothes itself in the form of the spiritual and volatile body, until there is only one perfect and eternal substance, although it had previously consisted of several natures and substances.

The mercurial moisture represented by the Dragon, horsemen, and soldiers, which at the beginning

About This Reading Edition

The first manuscript in the Manly Palmer Hall collection at the Getty Research Institute: the Book of Hieroglyphic Figures, presented in French and English with 463 explanatory notes, 13 manuscript plates, 25 source details, an introduction, chapter outline, glossary, bibliography, and register of readings.

Historical Text and Translation

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures (Livre des figures hiéroglyphiques), attributed in the witness to Abraham the Jew. Getty Research Institute, Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, accession 950053, Box 1, Hogart manuscript 3; French witness catalogued circa 1800. Manly Palmer Hall is the collector, not the author.

About Diotimos Editions

This historical edition credits Diotimos Editions as its English translator.

Rights

The circa 1800 source manuscript is public domain. The supplied 2026 French reading transcription, English translation, introduction, notes, outline, glossary, register, and editorial arrangement are published with the site owner’s authorization. Source photographs are credited to the Getty Research Institute and Internet Archive in the supplied edition.