L'altro Champollion: gli autografi conservati nel 'Fondo Champollion' della Biblioteca Comunale 'Manfrediana' di Faenza

The present article examines aspects pertaining the still-little-known philological studies Jean-François Champollion conducted during his years as a professor in Grenoble and at the Collège de France, through the analysis of the documents preserved in the Fondo Champollion of the Biblioteca Comunale «Manfrediana», Faenza. The archival units comprise handwritten documents, drawings and prints which complete the Fonds preserved in Paris at the Bibliothèque N ationale de France and in Leiden at the Rijkmuseum van Oudheden. The article offers a history of the Fondo with particular emphasis on the circumstances under which they became part of the collection of the Library of Faenza through their inclusion among the papers of Francesco Salvolini. The article analyses the content of the papers preserved in the Fondo Champollion, offering new insight as to their chronology, paternity and a critical history of our knowledge concerning the path that led Champollion to the deciphering of hieroglyphs. The second part of the article delves into the particular content of the documents of the Fondo Champollion of the Biblioteca Comunale «Manfrediana», Faenza. Champollion’s activity as a numismatist in connection to Champollion’s Arabic studies are analysed first. Champollion’s interest in the Arabic language follows. This concerns Arabic poetry and the relation between the Arabic and Egyptian languages on which the article concentrates more in detail through a transcription and commentary of the unpublished Combinaison d’idées egyptiennes chez les arabes.