Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga : sive Diatribe hieroglyphica qua mumiae, ex Memphiticis Pyramidum adytis erutae, & non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae, juxta veterum Hieromystarum mentem, intentionemque, plena fide & exacta exhibetur interpretatio : ad inclytos, abstrusiorumque cognitionum peritia instructissimos Galliae philologos directa.

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Title: Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga : sive Diatribe hieroglyphica qua mumiae, ex Memphiticis Pyramidum adytis erutae, & non ita pridem in Galliam transmissae, juxta veterum Hieromystarum mentem, intentionemque, plena fide & exacta exhibetur interpretatio : ad inclytos, abstrusiorumque cognitionum peritia instructissimos Galliae philologos directa.
Alternative Title: [Sphinx mystagoga]
Sphinx mystagoga.
Creator: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Ussé, Cht̂eau d'
Published / Created: anno MDCLXXVI.
Publication Place: Amstelodami :
Publisher: ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana,
Description: Bound with his Turris Babel ... Amstelodami, M DC LXXIX.
Interpretation of the hieroglyphics traced on two "enveloppes de momies" brought from Egypt and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine. Another edition (with imprint : Romæ, ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year. cf. A. de Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431.
Printer's device on the title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio.
Signatures: +-++4A-K4 (K4 blank).
Extent: 8 p.l., 72, [6] p. : illus., 5 pl. (3 fold.) ; 38 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Egyptian (Ancient)
Latin

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: Bg4 +679k

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Format: text
Genre: engravings (AAT)
Historiography
illustrations (AAT)
Languages (Study discipline)
Resource Type: Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Subject (Geographic): Egypt--Antiquities
Subject (Topic): Inscriptions, Egyptian
Mummies

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 1315678
Object ID (OID): 10267687
More Information: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1315678