Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.
Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
6 letters from Barns, 1 carbon copy of letter from Černý to Barns Correspondence mainly Barns consulting Černý regarding research and seeking Černý's advice on philological aspects and transcriptions.
1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Boardman. Correspondence concerned with Greek and Egyptian religion, Černý particularly interested in the tradition of carrying cult images on sacred barges.
5 letters from Botti. Publication and off-prints exchange, social contacts and personal matters, as well as the compilation of Italian entries for Who was Who in Egyptology. Botti also refers to a congress of Oriental Studies held in Prague in 1949, which Černý did not attend.
2 letters from Burton-Brown. Correspondence concerned with artefacts from the Manchester Museum (University of Manchester) collections, and the potential of infra-red photography.
2 letters from Calverley and a note by Černý to introduce A. Calverley for her lecture given at the Egypt Exploration Society. Abydos, personal matters, preferred pencils for epigraphy work (the Koh-i-noor brand). The introductory note for Calverley emphasises her achievements at Abydos.
5 letters from Drioton, Černý's draft for his obituary for Drioton. Professional and personal matters, the situation in Egypt after the Second World War (WWII). A draft of Černý's obituary for Drioton.
55 letters from Edwards to Černý. 11 letters to Marie Černý from Edwards, 2 draft letters from M. Černý to Edwards. Professional as well as personal matters. Philology, publication of Abusir papyri, objects from the British Museum collections, Nubian campaigns; academic examinations and positions, including Černý's transfer from London to Oxford; family matters. Particular issues include:
purchases of publications in Cairo
following Černý's death, Edwards corresponded with Marie Černý concerning the transfer of Černý's library to Prague
T. G. H. James to be recommended as The Lady Wallis Budge Fellow
the Palmer Holland squeezes material
papyri at Kingston Lacy
Coptic etymologies
Edwards' candidature for the British Academy, supported by Černý
stela of Rudjahau, in London, British Museum, EA 159, TopBib v.95-6
66 letters from Fairman, 16 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Fairman. Pprofessional and personal matters, book purchases and exchange, books being lent, often to Fairman or Liverpool library. Particular topics: - Černý asked to obtain books on some of his international travels, e.g. books from the IFAO during his Egypt sojourns.
Objects in Manchester Museum,1759 and 4588
Nubian sites, Amara (West) (TopBib vii.159?, 1961), Abu Simbel
Exchange of opinions on papers by E. Edel, B. Grdseloff and others
Černý invited to be an external examiner for Liverpool, exchange of evaluations of individual students, notably K. Kitchen. J. Ruffle, M. A. M. Asfour.
Administration of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES)