Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

PREFACE TO CATALOGUE PRINTED IN 1858.

The Egyptian Antiquities described in the
accompanying Catalogue were collected by Sir
Charles Nicholson during a Tour made in Egypt
in the year 1856-57. The Catalogue has been
prepared under the superintendence of Joseph
Bonomi, Esq., F.S.A. Mr. Birch, the Director of
the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the
British Museum, has kindly furnished Transla-
tions of some of the Papyri and Stelse. The owner
of the Collection is, however, under the most special
obligation to his friend, the Rev. D. I. Heath, M.A.,
late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, who
has given Translations of all the fragments of
Hieratic, as also of considerable portions of the
hieroglyphic writing, whether on inscribed mummy
cloth, papyrus, or wood. These are all found to
be excerpts from the celebrated " Bitual, or Book
of the Dead ;" and they present, it is believed, the