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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. 8r

comme dans une baignoire; les mères des enfants prosternées par terre aux pieds des soldats, pleurent et gémissent.

Dans la première du premier cahier contenant sept feuilles, était peinte une baguette entourée de deux serpents qui faisaient entre eux plusieurs contours et animés de rage l'un contre l'autre, se contournaient pour se dévorer. Ils avaient plusieurs taches jaunes tirant sur le rouge, sur le dos et sur le ventre, et au-dessus du haut de la baguette, était un casque ailé, tel que nous l'avons donné à Mercure au premier feuillet de la quatrième page.

Ms. 8r

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Model of the Hieroglyphic Figures

Ms. 8r

as in a bathtub. The children's mothers, prostrate upon the ground at the soldiers' feet, weep and lament.

On the first page of the first gathering, containing seven leaves, was painted a wand surrounded by two serpents that made several coils around one another. Enraged against each other, they twisted about to devour one another. They had several yellow spots tending toward red upon their backs and bellies, and above the top of the wand was a winged helmet, such as we have given to Mercury on the first leaf of the fourth page.

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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.

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.