Cornell University Library Digital Collections
Oedipus Aegyptiacus: Cult of Isis
- Title:
- Oedipus Aegyptiacus: Cult of Isis
- Collection:
- Images from the Rare Book and Manuscript Collections
- Creator:
- Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680
- Date:
- 1652-1654
- ID Number:
- RMC2007_1301
- Catalog Record:
- 3533736
- File Name:
- RMC2007_1301.tif
- Work Type:
- engravings (prints)
prints (visual works)
- Description:
- Cornell has two copies, one bound in four volumes in brown cloth (Rare PJ1093 K58++ c.1); the other in two vellum volumes with silver clasps (Rare PJ1093 K58++ c.2). The best examples from each were chosen. Also, the locations in the Bibliographic Information field refer to Kircher’s original division of the work into three “volumes” but four separately-paginated entities, called Tomus I, Tomus II Pars I, Tomus II Pars II, Tomus III. (See the spines of the four-volume set.)
- Source:
- Oedipus Aegyptiacus
- Bibliography:
- Tomus III, p. 426
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Collecting Program:
- Rare Books
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- Presumed to be in the public domain because of creation date.
