COPTIC -- KIRCHER, A. Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus. ( ) in quo cum linguae Coptae, sive Aegyptiacae, quondam Pharaonicae, origo, aetas, vicissitudo, inclinatio; tum hieroglyphicae literaturae instauratio ( ) exhibentur. Rome, Typ. S. Cong. De propag. Fide, 1636. (24), 338, (2) pp. W. woodcut ti-vign., text woodcuts after hieroglyphs and woodcut diagram of the ancient Egyptian solar system on p. 270. Sm-4º. 18th c. vellum w. raised bands. (Tiny wormholes in vellum, (rather) browned in places). estimate EUR 1.200 ¶ First edition of the first European grammar of Coptic; issue with Barberini arms on title. Pages 54-85 deal with the 8th-century stone inscription in Chinese and Syriac discovered at Hsi-an-fu recording the presence of Nestorian Christian communities in China. Use of Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac types in addition to Coptic. - Dünnhaupt, Kircher 3; Brunet III, 667.
COPTIC -- KIRCHER, A. Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus. ( ) in quo cum linguae Coptae, sive Aegyptiacae, quondam Pharaonicae, origo, aetas, vicissitudo, inclinatio; tum hieroglyphicae literaturae instauratio ( ) exhibentur. Rome, Typ. S. Cong. De propag. Fide, 1636. (24), 338, (2) pp. W. woodcut ti-vign., text woodcuts after hieroglyphs and woodcut diagram of the ancient Egyptian solar system on p. 270. Sm-4º. 18th c. vellum w. raised bands. (Tiny wormholes in vellum, (rather) browned in places). estimate EUR 1.200 ¶ First edition of the first European grammar of Coptic; issue with Barberini arms on title. Pages 54-85 deal with the 8th-century stone inscription in Chinese and Syriac discovered at Hsi-an-fu recording the presence of Nestorian Christian communities in China. Use of Arabic, Armenian, Ethiopic, Greek, Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syriac types in addition to Coptic. - Dünnhaupt, Kircher 3; Brunet III, 667.
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