Notes, mainly on Dynasty XXI. Includes photographs of a Late Period block from Saqqara, with four rows of ancestors, 'Genealogy of a Memphite Priest', in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 23673 (see TopBib iii2.751).
The majority of the notebooks are A5 or similar. Most of the content is handwritten unless specified otherwise. Many of the notebooks contain transcriptions of hieratic texts from ostraca, papyri and other objects. Also recorded are transcriptions of graffiti (hieratic and hieroglyphic) and hieroglyphic texts from monuments. Texts were often copied in situ at sites or in museums and were continually collated. Transcriptions were also made using photographs and publications as source material. Some notebooks are thematic focusing on economic and social history issues. These subjects include Egyptian administration (nomes), prices, topography (e.g. Deir el-Medîna), etc. Notebooks compiled from material consulted in Egyptian collections, mostly in European countries and Egypt. Černý visited museums with major collections of hieratic material from Deir el-Medîna, most notably, Museo Egizio, Turin; British Museum, London; [Ägyptisches] Museum, Berlin; and Rijksmuseum, Leiden. Černý compiled a series of slip-indexes for the transcriptions (slip-indexes, see Černý MSS 23 to 46).
Hieratic papyrus in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58032, decree in favour of Neskhons, B. Grdseloff's transcription collated with original by Černý in March 1950. With Grdseloff's list of related publications. Transcription of a stela inscribed in hieratic, in London, British Museum, EA 138, B. Grdseloff's transcription collated with original by Černý.
Enclosures include 1 letter from Peter Kaplony, sent to Černý in 1956 (2 typewritten pages with annotations). Stela, in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, No. 20. Second Kamose stela (Luxor Museum). Transcriptions of hieratic papyri in:
Stelae of Ramesses II at Tanis and Beisân. Copies by B. Grdseloff, collated by Černý. Statue of Merneptah at Nabêsha, copied by B. Grdseloff. Larger stela of Sethos I at Beisân.