The Instruction of Ptah-Hotep and the Instruction of Ke’Gemni
An early twentieth-century English rendering of Egyptian instruction texts, with introduction and appendix. This is the translation represented in Edsverb’s admitted numbered units. Ptahhotep is a traditional literary attribution; Kagemni is a recipient, not an established author. The edition’s “oldest books” subtitle is not adopted as a verified ranking.
Who it suits
Readers interested in early written instruction who can distinguish manuscript dates, literary attribution and translation.
Reading experience
Demanding; historical scholarship, uncertain passages and an older translation need context. This is an Edsverb editorial guide, not a measured reading score.
The edition
- Edition
- London: John Murray, 1906; Battiscombe G. Gunn translation
- Language
- English
- Translator
- Battiscombe G. Gunn
- Publisher
- John Murray
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