The Book of the Dead: an English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns; &c, of the Theban Recension, with Introduction, Notes, &c, and with Four Hundred and Twenty Vignettes

Abstract

READERS of NATURE will remember that nearly three years ago we noticed the appearance of a work, published by the trustees of the British Museum, in which facsimiles were given of the Egyptian papyri of Hunefer, Ånhai, Kerāsher and Netchemet, together with the text of the papyrus of Nu, the whole work being edited and annotated or translated by Dr. Wallis Budge, the keeper of our national collection of Oriental antiquities. As we pointed out at the time, this monumental work completed the series of facsimiles of papyri of the “Book of the Dead,” which the trustees of the Museum have published at intervals during the last eighteen years, and by its appearance furnished scholars with a remarkable series of papyri of all periods for the study of the funereal literature of the ancient Egyptians. The great amount of new material published in this series of volumes rendered still more apparent the want of a complete edition of the text of the “Book of the Dead,” which has been increasingly felt since the appearance in 1886 of M. Naville's “Das Todtenbuch der Ægypter,” in which were given the various chapters from the different papyri then available.

The Book of the Dead: an English Translation of the Chapters, Hymns; &c., of the Theban Recension, with Introduction, Notes, &c., and with Four Hundred and Twenty Vignettes.

By E. A. Wallis Budge In three volumes. Pp. xcvi + viii + iii + 702. Vols. vi.-viii. of the series "Books on Egypt and Chaldæa." (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1901.)