The book of the dead. The Papyrus of Ani in the British museum. With, Facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum

Book Description

London: Printed by order of the Trustees, sold at the British Museum, 1894-1895. Second edition of facsimile, first edition of translation. Facsimile volume: 54cm; vii pages and 37 double-page chromolithograph plates. Bound in recent half-calf over buckram; Text volume: 33cm; clv, 377, [1] pages. Hieroglyphic type with interlinear transliteration and translation. Plate volume with gift inscription to Century Club; text volume with Century Club bookplate (apparently deaccessioned). Text volume rubbed at extremities. E.A. Wallis Budge acquired the Papyrus of Ani for the British Museum in 1888. Intended as a guide to the afterlife, the scroll was full of its culture's most beautiful prayers and incantations, and was exquisitely decorated. Budge immediately sliced the scroll into 37 pieces and mounted the sections for exposition at the British Museum, where they began to deteriorate under the light. At the same time he commissioned a full-size, full-color facsimile, first published in 1890 and again in 1894, in luxurious elephant folio sheets but without translation or analysis. In 1895 he issued the text volume, intended to illuminate the second edition of the facsimile with "interlinear transliteration and word for word translation, a full description of the vignettes, and a running translation; and in the Introduction an attempt has been made to illustrate from native Egyptian sources the religious views of the wonderful people who more than five thousand years ago proclaimed the resurrection of a spiritual body and the immortality of the soul." Extra shipping charges apply.

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