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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
Corporate Author: Jesuit Collection
Format: Book
Language:Latin
Italian
Created: Amstelodami : Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana, MDCLXXVI. [1676]
Subjects:
Inscriptions, Egyptian > Early works to 1800.
Mummies > Early works to 1800.
Egyptian language > Writing, Hieroglyphic > Early works to 1800.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Egypt > Early works to 1800.
Mythology, Egyptian > Early works to 1800.
Egypt > Antiquities > Early works to 1800.
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Item Description:Engravings: plates, text illustrations.
Woodcuts: text illustrations, ornamental initials.
An interpretation of the hieroglyphics found on two "enveloppes de momies" which were brought from Egypt to France and preserved at the Château d'Ussé in Touraine.
Signatures: *⁴ **⁴ A-K⁴.
Printer's device on title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio.
Another edition (with imprint: Romae : Ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year; cf. Backer-Sommervogel, cited below.
Physical Description:[8] leaves, 72, [6] p., [5] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill. ; 39 cm. (fol.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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