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

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Ms. 29v

Cherchez un lion au levant, et un aigle au midi, car il y a une plus grande quantité de lions en Afrique qu’ailleurs, et on ne voit guère de bandes d’aigles blancs que dans l’occident ou au midi ; on a besoin de plus d’apprêts pour la chasse du lion que pour celle des aigles blancs. Il est besoin pour la confection de notre soufre.

Ce n’est donc pas sans raison que tous les Égyptiens ont eu pour la croix une grande vénération, puisque non seulement elle contient toutes les vertus et propriétés des choses élémentaires, comme nous l’expliquerons plus au long dans la suite en son lieu, mais parce que Jésus-Christ a souffert la mort sur la croix, que par sa mort, il a payé les peines dues à notre crime, et a obtenu un pardon général à tous les chrétiens des péchés qu’ils ont commis.

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Dragon on the Cross and Corruption

Ms. 29v

Seek a lion in the east and an eagle in the south, for there are more lions in Africa than elsewhere, and flocks of white eagles are scarcely seen except in the west or the south. More preparations are needed for hunting the lion than for hunting white eagles. It is needed for the making of our sulfur.

It is therefore not without reason that all the Egyptians held the cross in great veneration: not only because it contains all the powers and properties of elementary things, as we shall explain more fully later in its place, but because Jesus Christ suffered death upon the cross and, by his death, paid the penalties due for our crime and obtained for all Christians a general pardon for the sins they have committed.

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.