Inexplicably, the leaf on which the first panel of the Book of the Dead is printed is severely browned in my copy
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Inexplicably, the leaf on which the first panel of the Book of the Dead is printed is severely browned in my copy. This browning is not present on any of the other leaves comprising the book, suggesting that this leaf was printed on a sheet of poor quality paper.
Panel II is by no means so severely browned.
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Panel II is by no means so severely browned.
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Detail map of Mitte, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany,New Valley Governorate, Egypt

A: Mitte, Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany, B: New Valley Governorate, Egypt

Richard Lepsius Edits & Publishes Papyrus Turin 1791, Naming the Class of Papyri Known as "The Book of the Dead"

1842
Richard Lepsius. Steel engraving by Alexander Alboth. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Richard Lepsius. Steel engraving by Alexander Alboth. Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
In 1842 Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius first named the class of Egyptian papyrus known as The Book of the Dead when he edited papyrus Turin 1791 as an exemplar, and had it published in Leipzig in 1842 as Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin mit einem Vorworte zum ersten Male Herausgegeben. This was the first printed edition of The Book of the Dead. The modern numbering of the Book of the Dead spells (BD 1-165) is derived from Lepsius's edition of this papyrus.

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