BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Ptahhotep, Kagemna, and Gunn, Battiscombe G. (Battiscombe George)
Brugsch, H. Hieroglyphisches-demotisches Wörterbuch ... vols. v.-vii. Leipzig, 1880 ff. Contains explanations of many difficult passages.
Budge, E. A. W. An Egyptian Reading Book. London, 1888. Second edition, with transliteration into italics and vocabulary, London, 1896. Contains the most convenient transcript of the P.P. Follows throughout that of Virey (see below). For some amendments see Griffith in Proc. S.B.A. (below). The first edition is more accurate (for this text) than the second. The vocabulary needs revision.
Chabas, F. Le plus ancien livre du monde; étude sur le papyrus Prisse. Revue archéologique, première série, xv. anno. Paris, 1857. Contains a discussion of the text, etc., and partial translation.
Chabas, F. Le papyrus Prisse. Zeitschrift für ëgyptische Sprache. Berlin, 1870. Discusses the meaning of various words.
Chabas, F. Le plus ancien livre du monde; étude sur le papyrus Prisse. Bibliothèque orientale, vol. ii. Paris, 1872. The work of 1857 recast.
Dumichen, J. Les sentences de Kakemni. Les Bibles et les initiateurs religieux de l'humanité, vol. ii. part i. Paris, 1884. Contains a translation of Kg.
Griffith, F. L. Notes on Egyptian Texts of the Middle Kingdom, iii. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, vol. xiii. London, 1890. Discusses the text, correcting some previous errors in transcription. Translation of Kg. and §§ A, B of Ph.
Griffith, F. L. Egyptian Literature. A Library of the World's Best Literature. New York, 1898-9. Contains translation of many sections.
Heath, D. I. On a MS. of the Phoenician King Assa, ruling in Egypt before Abraham: A Record of the Patriarchal Age; or The Proverbs of Aphobis, B.C. 1900; now first fully translated. Monthly Review. London, July, 1866. The first 'translation' of Kg. and Ph. Afterwards issued as a pamphlet, London, 1858.
Lauth, F. J. Der Autor Kadjimna vor 5400 Jahren. Sitzungsberichte der kgl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften. Munchen, 1869, ii. Contains an analysis of Kg.
Lauth, F. J. Der Prim Ptah-hotep über das Alter: Ptah-hoteps Ethik. Sitzungsberichte der kgl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften. München, 1870, ii, Heft i, Beilage. Contains analysis and translation into Latin and German of the greater part of Ph.
Mahaffy, J. P. Prolegomena to Ancient History, part ii. London, 1871. Contains translations from Lauth's rendering.
Myer, T. The Oldest Books in the World. New York, 1900. Contains Virey's translation and notes.
Petrie, W. M. F. Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt. London, 1898. Contains translations of many sections by F. L. Griffith.
Prisse d'Avennes, E. Facsimile d'un papyrus égyptien, trouvé à Thebes, donné à la Bibliothèque Royale de Paris, et publié par E. P. d'A. Paris, 1847.
Rawnsley, H. D. Notes for the Nile, together with a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt, and of the Precepts of Ptah-hotep (the Oldest Book in the World). London, 1892.
Revillout, E. Les deux préfaces du papyrus Prisse. Revue égyptologique, tome vii. Paris, 1896. Contains translation of Kg. and § A of Ph.
Revillout, E. Les Maximes de Ptah-hotep. Revue égyptologique, tome x. Paris, 1902. Contains translation and text of Ph.
Virey, P. Études sur le papyrus Prisse, le livre de Kagimna et les leçons de Ptah-hotep. Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes-Études, fasc. 70. Paris, 1887. Contains complete translation and elaborate discussion of the text; also glossary.
Virey, P. The Precepts of Ptah-hotep (the Oldest Book in the World). Records of the Past, new series, vol. iii. London, 1890. Contains a translation of Ph.