In the fourteenth century, a great Copt and the Priest of the Hanging Church by the name of Barakat Ibn Kabar (d. 1324) wrote an important Copto-Arabic lexicon called the Scala Magna (al-Sullam al-Kabêr or The Great Ladder). Many years later, the renowned German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher made the work available to the West in his trilingual Lingua aegyptiaca restituta (The Egyptian Language Restored) from a single mss., cod. vat. Copt. 71 (a. 1319). This particular work amongst other important studies of the Egyptian Language is available at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). Importantly, it and others
have also been made available on the publically-accessible digital library of the BNF, Gallica along with many other publications.
Some important texts by Kircher available online regarding the Coptic language:
- Athanasius Kircher, Lingua aegyptiaca restituta, Rome 1643
- Athanasius Kircher, Prodromus Coptus sive Aegyptiacus, Rome 1636
The Egyptian Forerunner was the first Coptic grammar to appear in the West.
Online catalogues of other works related to the fields of Egyptology and Coptology available in the digital libraries of the world:
- Michael Malfiets On-line Egyptological Publications
- Universitätsbibliothek Heidelbergs Digitalisierte ägyptologische Print-Literatur und WWW-Publikationen
- Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (ETANA)
- Project Gutenberg
Ambrose Boles.
References
· Sidarus, Sullam in The Encyclopedia of Islam (Online Edition), Brill
· Ibn-Kabbar, The Author in The Lamp that Light the Darkness in Clarifying the Service (Preliminary Translation by W. A. Hanna), St. Mary & St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Church; St. Louis, Missouri 2000
· FSTC Ltd, The Arabic Study of Ancient Egypt at muslimheritage.com, February 2005
· Stefan Weinstock, Lunar Mansions and Early Calendars (p. 48-69) in The Journal of Hellenic Studies; Volume 69, 1949 (available online from JSTOR)
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