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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. 101v

un cheval noir qui porte une balance, il fait voir la parfaite corruption des substances. Or ils croient qu'on doit épurer en partie ces substances complètes pour notre enfant qui va naître et qui sont nommées un acgor par les philosophes chimistes; pour blanchir notre laton nous nous servons de plusieurs imbibitions que nous faisons se succéder. Tous les poètes ont assez marqué cette préparation par les monts de Calpe et d'Abyla qui étaient autrefois joints.

Ms. 101v

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: The Second Operation and the Death of Christ

Ms. 101v

a black horse and carrying a balance, displays the perfect corruption of substances. They believe these complete substances should be purified in part for our child about to be born, and chemical philosophers call them an acgor. To whiten our laton, we employ several imbibitions in succession. All the poets sufficiently indicated this preparation through the mountains Calpe and Abyla, formerly joined.

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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.