Gustav Seyffarth (1796-1885) Papers

Box 1

f.0 Miscellaneous manuscripts

• Photograph
• Document granting him leave from the Concordia Collegium 1859
• Honorable release in 1862
• “Figures with their names” (4 pages)
• Manuscript Fragments (8 pages)
• “Manetho’s Hyksos the Israelites” chart
• “Human Limbs referred to the Star-Divinities, their creators” (3 pages)
• “Verzeichniss” (8 pages)
• Thomas Manteufel, “Gustav Seyffarth and the Key to the Hieroglyphics” (19 pages)

f.1 Egyptian Antiquities

• The History of Egypt - Shishaks Papyrus (c. 80 pages)
• Public lectures concerning Egyptian Antiquity, March 10- April 16, 1879.
• Cesnolal's Egyptian Antiquities explained by G. Seyffarth (c. 26 pages)

f.2 Accent on Chaos and Egyptological Manuscripts

• Hymnen an Phoenix und Chol (10 pages)
• (no title) a translation of Egyptian symbols (32 pages)
• Brugsch’s Refutation of Champillions hieroglyphic system (a part of the history of the key to Egyptian literature)
• The present Egyptian Humbug (bound)
• Edfu Inscription “Altatthumdkunde" (hieroglyphics) (l6 pages)
• Explanation of the Ebers papyrus (15 pages)

f.3 Key to Egyptian

• The history of the key to the Egyptian hieroglyphics (148 pages)
• History of the key to the Egyptian literature (62 pages)
• The discovery of the Key to the Egyptian literature (101 pages) (bound)
• The key to the Egyptian literature (21 pages)

f.4

• De Hebraicae Copticaque linguae affinitate (11 pages)
• Confirmations of the Bible by Egyptian Antiquities, 1869 (German, 28 pages)
• Biblical Traditions illustrated by Egyptian Antiquities (25 pages)
• The Pharaoh who perished in the Red Sea
• “The Literary Life, Labor, Discoveries, Publication of Gustavus Seyffarth, A.M., Phil. And Theol. D.” (175 pages)
• Manetho's Shepherd-Kings, the Israelites in Egypt, according to a Turin papyrus. (98 pages)

f.5 Lunar

• Theory of the Moon's Motion confirmed by Nathaniel Holmes (16 pages)
• J. H. Hind , Theory of the Moon - an issue of Nature July 25, 1872. (24 pages)
• Theory of the Moon (94 pages)
• Schumacher's computations of the Almagest and other Lunar Tables (15 pages)

f.6

• New Materials for the construction of correct Lunar and Chronological Tables (783 pages)

Box 2

f.1

• The Chronology of the Septuagint critically examined (89 pages)
• Biblische Zeitrechnung: Chronologie der Roemischen Kaiser von Caesar bis Titus in Bezug auf das Neue Testament. Allentown, Pa., 1872, 168-210.
• The Actual Historical Chronology of the Romans, Greeks, Babylonians, Chinese, and the Incorrectness of the Moon’s Motions According to New Historical and Astronomical Sources. (146 pages)

f.2

• Chronology of the Northern Eclipses (10 pages)
• Catalogue of the Ancient Eclipses Chronologically arranged. (200 pages)
• Planetary Island Eclipses. The oldest Chinese Inscriptions (29 pages)

f.3

• Collection of astronomical monuments of different character (49 pages)
• The Egyptian Planets and Great Deities (7 pages)
• Table of Ancient Divisions of the Zodiac, tables, symbols, and calculations of Egyptian Zodiac (6 loose pages; 9 large tables bound together)

f.4

• Lieblein, J. Index Alphabetique du Livre des Morts. Paris: F. Vieweg, Librairie A. Frank, 1875 with Seyffarth marginalia (186 pages)
• (Bound) Chronologia Sacra. Untersuchungen über das Geburtsjahr des Herrn und die Zeitrechnung des Alten und Neuen Testamentes. Leipzig: Verag von Johann Abrosius Barth, 1846. (The printed pages are separated and interleaved with his notes) Two reviews: Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (Sep 1846); Leipziger Repertorium (Jan 1846).
• (Bound) Die Wahre Zeitrechnung des Alten Testaments nebst einer Zeittafel zum Neuen Testamente: Ein Hülfsbüchlein für christliche Bibelleser. St. Louis, MO: M. Niedner, 1857. (The printed pages are separated and interleaved with his notes)
• (Bound) Webster, N.B., editor. Miscellaneous Literary, Scientific, and Historical Notes, Queries, and Answers. Manchester, N.H.: S.C. and L.M. Gould, Volume 1, No.2 (Aug 1882); Proceedings of Ohio Auxiliary Society of the International Institute for Preserving and Protecting Weights and Measures Held in Cleveland June 07, 1882. Cleveland: Leader Printing Company, 1882; Charles Lattimer, The Reverse of the Great Seal of the United States, Its Significance as an Emblem of Our Nation. An Astronomical and Chronological Symbol. An Epitome of the Solar System. A Symbolic Temple of God. Cleveland: Fairbanks Printer, 1882; Newspaper Excerpts from Our Rest (9 articles)
• Seyffarth, G. Neue Zeittafeln zur griechischen, roemischen, und biblischen Geschichte gegründet auf neuhistorische und astronomische Hülfsmittel der Chronologie. Zweiter Theil. (193 pages)

Box 3

f.1

• The Obelisks in general (147 pages)

f.2

• “Some monuments of Egypt” (printed excerpt from a lecture by Seyffarth) (4 pages)
• Alexian Obelisk: German publications - “Der Alexandrinische Obelisk im New-Yorker Centralpark”; “Der Obelisk im Centralpark” (7 pages)
• New York Obelisk "Age of the Obelisk" by Halton (2 copies, 4 pages)
• The New York Obelisk: Grammatically and Historically translated (not yet finished, mostly newspapers, some notes)

f.3

• The New York Obelisk. Grammatically and Historically Expounded: A Public Lecture delivered in the Panepa Hall, November 3rd, 1881 together with a Facsimile and Sixteen Explanatory Plates
• Werthe Sammlung (16 pages)
• Conclusion: New York Obelisk (German, 6 pages)
• The New York Obelisk: Brugsch Bey’s Translation Examined (news clipping, 3 pages)
• New York Staatszitung (news clipping, 4 pages)

f.4

• Results from Manetho's Autograph (Rosetta Stone)
• Georg P. Thones' Pap. Demot.: "Scarabaeus" "Tablet" "Above Orisis" "Above the soul" (15 pages)
• Translation of the great Sphinx near the great pyramid (10 pages)
• Bilingual Monuments (132 pages)
• l. The Rosetta Stone
• 2. Phile interpretation of the Rosetta
• 3. The Greek text of the Rosetta stone
• 4. Hermapion's bilingual translation
• 5. The Tablets of Abudos translated and explained from the year 2781 B.C.

f.5

• The Casts of the Tanis Stone according to the Smithsonian Institution (15 pages)
• The Tanistone: Volume 2:1-80 (66 pages - numbered every four pages from 35-50)
• The Tanistone autographed (cj photographed), Hierog1yphicalle, Demotically, Greek. (3 items)
• Demotic Text: Tanistone (32 pages)
• Demotic Text of the Tanistone (30 pages)
• The Demotic text of the Tanistone explained (16 pages)

f.6

• The Greek Text of the Tanistone (19 pages)
• Literal translation of the hierog1yphic text of the Tanistone (14 pages)
• Comparative pronunciation and translation of the Tanistone (71 pages)
• Annotation to the interpretation of the Tanistone (197 pages)

f.7

• Annotations to the Hieroglyphic and Demotic Texts of the Tanistones (246 pages and 25 pages of symbols)

Box 4

• Seyffarth, Gustav. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Literature Kunst , Mythologie, und Geschichte des Alten Aegypten. Leipzig: Verlag von Joh. Ambros. Barth, 1833. Volume 2
• Seyffarth, Gustav. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Literature Kunst , Mythologie, und Geschichte des Alten Aegypten. Leipzig: Verlag von Joh. Ambros. Barth, 1833. Volume 3
• Seyffarth, Gustav. Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Literature Kunst , Mythologie, und Geschichte des Alten Aegypten. Leipzig: Verlag von Joh. Ambros. Barth, 1833. Volume 4

Box 5

• Book of news clippings, articles, and pages from books interfolated into bound volume with Seyffarth's comments. (375 pages)
• Chiliasm critically examined according to the statements of the New and Old Testaments with reference to the most recent theory of the Millennium. (117 pages)

Bound Volumes (not in boxes)

• G. Seyffarth, Lexicon Aegypticum. (Oversized Bound Volume, 370 pages)
• Book of news clippings, articles and pages from books interfolated into bound volume with Seyffarth's comments. (350 pages)
• Lehre und Wehre, Volumes 9-10, 1863-1864 (bound, 768 pages)

Oversize Box 1

• 1. The Great Sarcophagus of Leipzig. Lithographic. (11 pages)
• 2. Handwritten Timeline Chart of Christian History. Approximately 20” x 40” in trifold format sheets (5 sheets total)
• 3. Jewels of Egyptian Monuments: The Leipzig Sarcophagus. Approximately 28”x20” sheets (5 sheets total)