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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de l’opération dominait dans la solution et dans la corruption, et le soufre représenté par le soleil la lune le Roi, la Vierge était éclipsé et enchaîné maintenant le temps de la domination est venu et notre Dragon est vaincu et exterminé, ils ont appris de là une vérité chrétienne très importante savoir que Satan qui règne à présent avec un grand pouvoir dans le monde et qui répand partout les semences de tous les vices, de tous les crimes, et de toutes les abominations, verra venir un temps où après qu’il aura été terrassé et précipité avec tous ses complices dans un gouffre de feu comme on a fait voir dans cet emblème sacré ; notre roi tout-puissant qui vainq tout, régnera éternellement avec les amis de Jésus-Christ.

C’est pour ce sujet que dans la même figure, on dépeint un esprit, ou un ange qui tient en sa main droite une clef, et de la gauche tient ce dragon rouge et ancien garroté de chaînes et le lie, et le précipite dans un

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

Ms. 126r

of the operation dominated in dissolution and corruption, while sulfur, represented by the sun, moon, King, and Virgin, was eclipsed and chained. Now the time of dominion has come and our Dragon is conquered and exterminated. From this they learned a most important Christian truth: Satan, who presently reigns with great power in the world and scatters everywhere the seeds of every vice, crime, and abomination, will see a time when, after he has been thrown down and cast with all his accomplices into a gulf of fire, as shown in this sacred emblem, our almighty king, who conquers everything, will reign eternally with the friends of Jesus Christ.

For this reason the same figure depicts a spirit or angel holding a key in his right hand and, with the left, holding this ancient red dragon bound with chains, binding it and casting it into a

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.