| Description | A printed sheet of possible translations of a series of Egyptian hieroglyphs, followed by a printed parallel text of Latin and Arabic with speeches from an unidentified book, paginated pp 469-472. Subtitle of front page reads 'Nunc primum in lucem edita Melchiore a Brigae Soc: Iesu interprete ad ioannem baptisam ptolemaeum S R E cardinalem amplissimum.' A caption at the bottom of the page reads 'Eruditus est Moyses omni sapientia Eegyptorium [Moses was learned in all the wisdom of Egypt]'.
Subject: Hieroglyphics / Translation
Read to the Royal Society on 28 March 1723. Communicated by Thomas Dereham |