Max JACOB (1876-1944). 15 autograph manuscripts; 1 to 2 pages each, various sizes, mostly in-4 or in-fol. (qqs slight defects). Nice set of meditations. Creation : " My God, I prostrate myself before your unknown and known greatness "... - Man's solitude : " Is man alone in the vertiginous encumbrance of animal seeds "... (with sketch). - Death: "I feel it in my veins, death!"... - Death (continuation): "These are thoughts that one should have in front of the temptations of the moment to sin"... " Show yourself in the poverty of my life, before the poverty of my body"... (with 2 sketches). - Resurrection of Lazarus: "I retain from my meditation the image of death"... - Death: "My God! help me to think of death"... - Crucifixion: "When Jesus, alarmed by the march of the men towards the complete perdition, judged good to save them"... - "My God! give me a great gratitude for you"... (with the letterhead of the coffee Mayor). - Since I will perhaps not have the time to confess, make me without sin and especially spare me the sudden death"... - Purpose of the life: "Sit before the inventor of every star and their bush of bees"... - "Give me the fear! what the skies are full of new signs which panic us"... - "My Lord and my God, truce with the friendly concerns"... A small autograph manuscript, La boutique du grainetier, with 2 pen-and-ink drawings (1 p. oblong in-8) is attached.