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Attributed to Abraham the Jew

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I

Book of Hieroglyphic Figures

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Register of Readings · Part 8

The Manly Hall Manuscript Collection, Volume I: Register of Readings

p. 350

H001-S293 129r

The initial and wine completes the preceding page’s appearances of bread and wine. The source’s au corps et au sang is retained as a transformation into body and blood, not reduced to a change of representation.

H001-S294 129v

The quoted saying is underlined in the manuscript. The French non pas comme ils veulent que le sacrement est la figure même has irregular syntax; English makes the two positions readable while retaining the author’s attributed disagreement.

H001-S295 130r

The source uses feminine elles after the masculine miracles and irregular certain énigme; French retains both. The phrase ou plutôt la vôtre, ‘or rather yours’, directly addresses the opponents and is not omitted. The quoted saying is underlined in the source.

H001-S296 130v

The source’s lesquelles follows résolution et corruption, then gives pénétrées and singular pleine; English preserves the incomplete relative continuation across the boundary to the next page rather than deciding a new antecedent. The second paragraph’s rhetorical si clauses are punctuated in English without introducing a negative absent from the source.

H001-S297 131r

refusé is the present reading in the clause au métal qu’elle a refusé; a reading refondu would improve the sense but has not been adopted without stronger visual evidence.

H001-S298 131v

arabique: the b was confirmed against nearby letterforms in an enlarged crop; initial provisional reading aradique rejected.

H001-S306 134v

naturels, not an unmarked reconstruction surnaturels, is retained in the phrase qui sont naturels.

H001-S316 140

Actual written number: 140. Terminal formula: A Dieu. Both preserved from the image; sequence numbering has not replaced 140.

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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.

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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.