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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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faculté de l’âme dont on peut à peine l’effacer ; c’est pourquoi ils ont donné le nom de manes à ces affections et à ces opérations de la fantaisie. Vous pourrez en lire beaucoup là-dessus dans Agrippa, où l’on voit différentes opinions touchant l’homme après sa mort. On connaît ces idées de la forme ou de l’âme raisonnable et des figures qui restent après la mort ou après la séparation de l’âme et du corps, par les formes qui restent même après la résolution du corps ; car de même que les représentations de l’âme ou forme essentielle ou animale restent après la mort des hommes, de même après la résolution du cadavre, sa forme accidentelle ou individuelle qui lui est fortement imprimée, et gravée sur lui d’un caractère inséparable, sont dehors, comme il arrive dans les formes renaissantes des plantes comme nous avons dit car il arrive pour l’ordinaire, surtout en été, lorsque la chaleur brûle le plus cruellement qu’un cadavre inhumé se putréfie et se corrompt, tant

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The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Lucretius Ovid and the Parts of the Human Being

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faculty of the soul, from which it can scarcely be effaced. That is why they gave the name manes to these affections and operations of fantasy. You may read much on this subject in Agrippa, where different opinions about the human being after death are found. These ideas of the form or rational soul, and of figures remaining after death or after the separation of soul and body, are known through forms that remain even after the body’s dissolution. For just as representations of the soul, or essential or animal form, remain after human death, so after the corpse’s dissolution its accidental or individual form, strongly impressed upon it and engraved with an inseparable character, are outside—as happens in the reborn forms of plants, as we have said. It ordinarily happens, especially in summer when the heat burns most cruelly, that a buried corpse putrefies and becomes corrupted, both

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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.