Discovery of a new manuscript of the Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings
06/02/2010 Filed in: Martinism
A rare and remarkable event: an eleventh manuscript of Martines de Pasqually’s Treatise on the reintegration of beings has just been discovered in Paris, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A copy that even the late Robert Amadou hadn’t exhumed...
It was spotted by Cyvard Mariette in a reference given by H. Omont in Nouvelles acquisitions du département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1913-1914 (Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 1915, volume 76, n°1, p. 400).
Xavier Cuvelier-Roy and Dominique Clairembault set out to verify the information, found the manuscript and examined it closely on January 30th, 2010. You can read Xavier’s account in French, here.
The manuscript is referenced NAF 22373 (and on microfilm at MF 21257), included in a larger volume called Mélanges historiques et philosophiques. It is relatively complete, the text being identical to that of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s manuscript, except for a few missing paragraphs and additional annotations of the figures. It was copied by 3 or 4 people, of unknown identity. Its date is hard to determine, although it seems likely that it dates at least from the napoleonic empire (early 19th century), as it carries the stamps “Bibliothèque Royale” and “Bibliothèque Impériale”.
It was spotted by Cyvard Mariette in a reference given by H. Omont in Nouvelles acquisitions du département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1913-1914 (Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 1915, volume 76, n°1, p. 400).
Xavier Cuvelier-Roy and Dominique Clairembault set out to verify the information, found the manuscript and examined it closely on January 30th, 2010. You can read Xavier’s account in French, here.
The manuscript is referenced NAF 22373 (and on microfilm at MF 21257), included in a larger volume called Mélanges historiques et philosophiques. It is relatively complete, the text being identical to that of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s manuscript, except for a few missing paragraphs and additional annotations of the figures. It was copied by 3 or 4 people, of unknown identity. Its date is hard to determine, although it seems likely that it dates at least from the napoleonic empire (early 19th century), as it carries the stamps “Bibliothèque Royale” and “Bibliothèque Impériale”.