Max JACOB (1876-1944). 15 autograph manuscripts; 1 to 2 pages each, various formats mostly in-4 or in-fol (some slight defects). Beautiful set of meditations. - Creation: "Mon Dieu, je me prosterne devant votre grandeur inconnue et connue"... - Solitude de l'homme: "L'homme est-il seul dans l'encombrement vertigineux des semences animales"... (with sketch). - Death: "I feel it in my veins, death!"... - Death (continued): "These are thoughts we should have before 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"... - Crucifixion: "When Jesus, alarmed by the march of men towards complete perdition, saw fit to save them"... - "Mon Dieu! donnez-moi une grande reconnaissance pour vous"... (on the letterhead of Café Maire). - "Since I may not have time to confess, make me sinless and above all spare me sudden death"... - Purpose of life: "Sitting before the inventor of every star and their bee bush"... - "Give me dread! what the heavens are full of new signs that panic us"... - "My Lord and my God, truce with friendly concerns"... Attached is a small autograph manuscript, La boutique du grainetier, with 2 pen-and-ink drawings (1p. oblong in-8).