The Italian traveler and collector Pietro della Valle acquired various Coptic manuscripts while visiting Egypt in the early seventeenth century. Through his connections to the expansive network of international Jesuit missionaries and involvement in contemporaneous excavations of ancient artifacts in Rome, Kircher amassed a renowned museum of antiquities and exotic curios in his personal study, the Musaeum Kircherianum.Ĭoptic was the liturgical language of the Christian church in Egypt, used primarily in the middle of the first millennium BCE, before being eclipsed by Arabic. Athanasius Kircher was a prodigious Jesuit scholar who authored over forty books on a vast array of subjects, including volcanoes, musical theory, magnetism, botany, philology, and the ancient world.
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