The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

H001-S151 62r

The source’s singular ose follows Mars ou ses esprits sulphureux; the English keeps Mars as the subject rather than changing the source’s argument to a plural subject.

H001-S153 63r

Read l’or le plus doux in the source. The sentence dispersés de cet astre has a difficult attachment; English places ‘from this star’ after the objects over which the poison is said to flow.

H001-S154 63v

The Greek characters following dans begin Ερεβο; the remainder cannot be established confidently from the original. Tisiphone is clearer here than the provisional Tysiphone on scan 78. The grammatical irregularity qui ne doit after flèches is retained.

H001-S155 64r

The manuscript’s syntactic irregularities De même qu’elle and amollit avec ses flèches dissout are preserved in French. English inserts ‘and’ between softens and dissolves.

H001-S156 64v

Anthée is a provisional reading of the name. Four handwritten alchemical signs follow trois corps; their shapes are not securely represented by standardized Unicode glyphs. The heading occurs within this page, before the second paragraph.

H001-S157 65r

The difficult clause lorsqu’ils y sont dans leur perfection is retained without supplying a new antecedent. The English renders qu’elles renferment as a reference to the preceding humidités.

H001-S158 65v

No verb is supplied to replace the source’s difficult Si nous jetons … je dirai construction. The sequence maladies pestilentielles de grêle is punctuated as a list in English; French retains the written wording.

H001-S159 66r

The Greek word following toutes les is not confidently deciphered; no standard Greek term is substituted on conjecture.

H001-S160 66v

The source’s question beginning Puisque is syntactically incomplete and remains so in English. No additional main clause is supplied.

H001-S161 67r

The source places ne puisse pas in a question that argues for the possibility; English renders the intended positive capability. The locative term définitivement is retained as ‘definitively present’ rather than translated ‘forever’.

H001-S162 67v

The source’s singular essence governs both la plus fixe and la plus grossière; English retains both qualities. The clause dont il est … de les retirer is rendered as extraction from the preceding parts.

H001-S163 68r

The initial feminine prêtes has no regular agreement with the preceding masculine Ciel; no omitted feminine noun is supplied. English renders the phrase without gender marking.

H001-S164 68v

The source’s unfinished sequence et ces deux extrémités … par un certain accord is kept unfinished across the page boundary. No additional verb is supplied.

H001-S166 69v

The source alternates passibilité and passabilité; both are rendered passibility. The sentence begins Cela n’est pas digne d’une grande attention, despite the preceding emphasis on the subject’s marvels; no correction is made.

H001-S167 70r

Faisant si is the manuscript’s irregular opening to paragraph 3; English renders it ‘Considering whether’. The Greek is provisionally transcribed διαφτορα, with the source’s letter sequence retained rather than silently replacing it with a standard spelling.

H001-S168 70v

The irregular source wording de vertus rassemblé dans une is retained in French; English renders its sense as ‘powers gathered into one’.

H001-S170 71v

The word after d’ is written in a mixture of Greek and Latin-shaped letters, provisionally represented αληθεia. The final sentence is underlined in the manuscript and is completed by the comment on the next page.

H001-S171 72r

No missing counterpart is supplied after soit par. The source’s phrasing les verres … des métaux is retained.

H001-S173 73r

The source has telles qu’elles soient rather than a regular modern concession. The French is retained without grammatical repair.

H001-S174 73v

The Greek is partly legible as απο…ηρμ…; intervening and final characters are uncertain. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. English brings séminales from the opening of the next page into the compound phrase ‘seminal forms’; the French remains in source order.

H001-S175 74r

The opening séminales completes formes on the preceding page; English has already joined the divided phrase there. Clarification continues to be rendered ‘radiance’ in the account of glorification.

H001-S176 74v

The source’s irregular construction enfin l’avènement … elles arrivent is rendered with ‘with the advent’. Des ténèbres de leurs ordures follows toutes les impuretés élémentaires in an uneven list; English retains darkness as a distinct listed term.

H001-S177 75r

The opening completes not only … but also from the preceding page. English adjusts the connective to continue the argument without supplying missing substantive content.

H001-S178 75v

Provisional reading soumis à la servir; the word servir could instead be another verb. A source detail is reproduced in the facsimile appendix. The irregular source phrase à la source du néant is retained literally. The English rearranges the interrupted conditional relative construction but preserves its incompleteness.

H001-S183 77r

The word ‘fournis’ is parenthesized and cancelled before ‘soumis’.

H001-S186 78v

The concluding French quotation is underlined in the manuscript.

H001-S192 81v

The nomenclature in paragraph 2 is transmitted in its irregular order; a term may be omitted before or after ‘et dans les animaux,’ but none has been supplied.