Belhome, Curé de Saint Brice

Les mystères de l'Agneau. Copy transcribed from the original by Lenain, the French occultist. On the second preliminary leaf is a six line note in shorthand headed 'Lenain'. The subject of the work is the ritual of making talismans.

c. 1825

1 volume 3 ll. + 24 pp. + 20 bl. ll. 8vo. 191/2 x 111/2 cm. Original quarter-calf binding. Illustrated by two pen-drawn talismanic figures.

Purchased 1933.

Pp. 21-24 contain a note by the unnamed owner who states that the work was composed by Belhome, who on his death-bed gave the original MS. to a relative living at Amiens. Afterwards this relative brought it to M. Lenain, an occultist of the same city, who made two copies of it, one of which was given to the writer of this note.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Digital copy held by Wellcome Images, reference: F0002839