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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Bibliography

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Bibliography

Getty Research Institute. Manly Palmer Hall collection of alchemical manuscripts, 1500–1825. Accession 950053. Finding aid, especially the scope statement and Box 1 entry. https://www.getty.edu/research/collections/static/pdf/950053.pdf

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

Académie française. Dictionnaire, first edition (1694), nitre. Historical distinction from salpêtre. https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A1N0049

Académie française. Dictionnaire, seventh edition (1878), orpiment. Historical material and pigment-name. https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/A7O0541

Académie française. Dictionnaire, eighth edition, marcassite, reproduced by the Centre national de ressources textuelles et lexicales. https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/academie8/marcassite

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

Larousse. Dictionnaire de français, vitriol. Historical sulfate terminology. https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/vitriol/82282

Virgil. Aeneid VI, especially 126–131 and 726–727. Latin text in the Perseus Digital Library. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0055%3Abook%3D6

Macrobius. Saturnalia I.20.16–17, the inquiry of Nicocreon and the cosmic description of Serapis. Latin text at LacusCurtius. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Macrobius/Saturnalia/1%2A.html

Aristotle. Posterior Analytics I.2, 71b9–16, on scientific knowledge and necessity. Historical translation by G. R. G. Mure, reproduced at Logic Museum. https://www.logicmuseum.com/authors/aristotle/posterioranalytics/posterioranalytics.htm

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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.

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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.