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Theological Explanations and Egyptian Hieroglyphs · Manuscript 80r · Scan 189
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Ms. 80rhonorables, des métairies, des seigneuries, mais au contraire à construire des hôpitaux, à nourrir les pauvres, à recevoir les étrangers et les partager à la veuve et à l’orphelin ; nous lui recommandons surtout de jeter continuellement les yeux sur la gloire de Dieu, de Marie et de l’édifice catholique, apostolique et romaine, et de se rappeler en sa mémoire le jugement futur où il doit rendre compte d’un si grand trésor.
The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Theological Explanations and Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Ms. 80rhonorable offices, farms, or lordships, but instead to build hospitals, feed the poor, receive strangers, and share it with the widow and orphan. Above all, we recommend that he keep his eyes continually upon the glory of God, of Mary, and of the Catholic, apostolic, and Roman edifice, and recall the future judgment at which he must account for so great a treasure.
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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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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.
- Manuscript collection and Box 1 identificationGetty Research Institute: Hall collection finding aid
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