GNOSTICISM - BAS-RHIN]. MATTER, Jacques (1791-1864), theologian, scholar, researcher and professor at the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Strasbourg. He published numerous works. Important archive of Matter's research on Gnosticism, Gnostic inscriptions, symbols and emblems, pre-Gnostic monuments, amulets, Abraxas, etc. -Numerous drawings of symbols and inscriptions, amulets, intaglios, coins, etc., some from Kopp. Approx. 100 documents, mostly in ink, on paper or tracing, some printed. -Autograph manuscript by Matter for his book "Les Monuments du Gnosticisme". S.l.n.d. Title page and 30 pp. in-4. Numerous erasures, corrections and additions. Matter has added by hand that this manuscript is "a little richer than the copy made for Herzog Scheitlin's Encyclopédie théologique". -Autograph manuscript by Matter entitled "Jacobi Ebionitismus und Gnosticismus". S.l.n.d. 21 pp. in-4. -MATTER, Jacques. Set of two offprints: "Histoire critique du Gnosticisme" (1843) and "Gnosticism" (1857?). -L.A.S. from archaeologist, numismatist and linguist Bernardino Biondelli (1804-1886) about his Gnostic coins, discoveries and purchases of new objects. He sends two drawings (enclosed - recto/verso) of a coin featuring an owl, -FROEHNER. Mélanges d'épigraphie et d'archéologie. 2 plates: I to X and XI to XXV. Paris, Detaille, 1873 and 1875. -MATTER. Des Sacrifices. Tiré à part de la France littéraire. Paris, Ducessois, November 1837. -BERGER. L'Arabe avant Mahomet d'après les inscriptions. Paris, Maisonneuve, 1885. E.A.S. to Matter (son, also a pastor, teacher and specialist in Lutheran dogma). -VINCENT. Supplément au mémoire intitulé : Essai d'explication de quelques pierres gnostiques. Offprint. S.l.n.d. -KOPP. De varia ratione Inscriptiones. Frankfurt, n.d. Offprint. -STICKEL, Ioannes Gustavus. De Gemma Abraxea. Ienae, Libraria Croeckeriana, 1848. -RECKE IN MITAU, Johann Frederich von. Abraxas-Gemme. Dorpat Leipzig, 1843. 2 copies. Staining. Engravings of objects found in Carthage, Tripoli, intaglios, etc., are enclosed. Expert : Madame Mathilde Lalin-Leprevost - mathildelalinleprevost@gmail.com - 06 84 38 90 72