Athanasii Kircheri è Societ. Jesu, Sphinx mystagoga
Subtitle: 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
Contributors: Janssonius van Waesberge, Johannes, 1616-1680, printer
Publisher: Ex officina Janssonio-Waesbergiana
Published: 1676
Place of publication: Amstelodami [Amsterdam, Netherlands]
Language: lat; ita
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Mummies; Early works to 1800; Egyptian language; Hieroglyphic Writing; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Egyptian Mythology; Antiquities
Other titles: Diatribe hieroglyphica
Work titles: Sphinx mystagoga
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.

Signatures: *⁴ **⁴ A-K⁴.

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.

Principally in Latin; some portions in Italian.