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ROSELLINI, Ippolito
Elementa linguae Aegypticae, vulgo Copticae .[Edited by L.M. Ungarelli]
Ex typographia Collegii Urbani, Rome 1837. First edition. 4to., xvi, 136pp., engraved plate, uncut in original wrappers, spine repaired, a very good copy.
Rosellini, father of Italian Egyptology studied Hebrew & Arabic languages at Pisa University, becoming Professor of Oriental Languages at 24 years. It was then he learned of French Egyptologist Cham[pollion and his deciphering of Hieroglyphics. Rossellini's great work on Egyptology was Italy's most important contribution to this field. Hilmy II, 182
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