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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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Ms. 140

offusque les yeux les plus perçants de sorte qu’à peine peuvent-ils fixer leur vue dessus, est la manière par laquelle une même matière est plante et pierre, métal et minéral, corps et âme, élément, ciel, astre et tout et néanmoins un sans contradiction.

A Dieu.

Ms. 140

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Multiplication and the Eucharist

Ms. 140

dazzles the keenest eyes so that they can scarcely fix their gaze upon it, is the manner in which one and the same matter is plant and stone, metal and mineral, body and soul, element, heaven, star, and everything, yet one without contradiction.

Farewell.

Ms. 140

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.