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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | Latin Italian Principally in Latin; some portions in Italian. |
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Amstelodami [Amsterdam, Netherlands] :
Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana,
MDCLXXVI. [1676]
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| Place Name: | Netherlands -- Amsterdam. |
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| Notes: | 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. Last leaf blank. Printer's device on title page with motto: Vivitur ingenio. Woodcut and engraved illustrations. Another edition (with imprint: Romae : Ex typographia Vitalis Mascardi) published in the same year--Cf. Backer, Bibliothèque des écrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus, 1853, 1. sér., p. 431. Bound with "Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musæum ... P.A. Kircherus novis et raris inventis locupletatum instruxit (1678) / (Georgius de) Sepibus. Physical description: [8] leaves, 72, [6] p., [5] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill ; 37 cm. (fol.) more |