The Pnakotic Manuscipts

in English, author and translator unknown, translated from a Greek papyrus circa fifteenth century

This bewildering book describes a race of elder beings who antedate all other life on this planet, and are said to have created all terrestrial life as a joke or a mistake. A description of the great dread continent of Reall-Yeaa is also included. The book then goes on to relate mythic epics of the lost Hyborian civilizations of Hyperborea and Atlantis, such as the the fall of Zobna and the journeys of the prophet Sansu. Other sections relate the natures of Chugnar Faugn and Yibb-Yith. The rites of Rhan-Tegoth are listed, as is the location of of Xiurhn. A section also gives a fragmentary description of life on Jupiter. The book at the Orne Library was originally property of Noah "Wizard" Whateley, and was part of the Whateley Bequest. (Johnson, Sam, and Sandy Antunes. "Miskatonic University: A Handbook to the Pride of Arkham." Chaosium, Oct. 2005.)