Amazing manuscript illustrated with hundreds... - Lot 91 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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Amazing manuscript illustrated with hundreds... - Lot 91 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
Amazing manuscript illustrated with hundreds of engravings and drawings - POURLIER (Louis-Marie). The Great Book of Life, in which are gathered all that is most suitable to detach souls from the earth and to lead them to heaven; all drawn faithfully and with a great number of figures, from various works which are in part very rare. Lyon, L'Auteur, 1863, broadsheet, 138 leaves containing hundreds of engravings and drawings, red half-chagrin with corners of the time (binding rubbed, missing at the tail of the spine). This manuscript has never been published. A similar manuscript, of lesser importance, by the same author can be found in the library of Grenoble. The author is an enlightened man who has gathered in this volume numerous engravings and text extracts, and has executed many drawings, including 2 beautiful large watercolours. The book deals with life after death, Kabbalah, and various secret alphabets, representations of the cross and its presence in nature. The prophecy of the Sibyls, the sun, the moon, the stars, the tree of heaven. There is also a whole section on Egypt and the Babylonian hieroglyphs. The end of the work is mainly made up of engravings representing the Virgin and Jesus Christ. Amazing manuscript written in a perfectly legible handwriting.
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