Transcriptions of hieratic ostraca from Deir el-Medîna during I.F.A.O. excavations (IFAO O.DM 550-623) published by S. Sauneron:

• IFAO 550
• IFAO 551
• IFAO 552
• IFAO 553
• IFAO 554
• IFAO 555
• IFAO 556
• IFAO 557
• IFAO 558
• IFAO 559
• IFAO 560
• IFAO 561
• IFAO 562
• IFAO 563
• IFAO 564
• IFAO 565
• IFAO 566
• IFAO 567
• IFAO 568
• IFAO 569
• IFAO 570
• IFAO 571
• IFAO 572
• IFAO 573
• IFAO 574
• IFAO 575
• IFAO 576
• IFAO 577
• IFAO 578
• IFAO 579
• IFAO 580
• IFAO 581
• IFAO 582
• IFAO 583
• IFAO 584
• IFAO 585
• IFAO 586
• IFAO 587
• IFAO 588
• IFAO 589
• IFAO 590
• IFAO 591
• IFAO 592
• IFAO 593
• IFAO 594
• IFAO 595
• IFAO 596
• IFAO 597
• IFAO 598
• IFAO 599
• IFAO 600
• IFAO 601
• IFAO 602
• IFAO 603
• IFAO 604
• IFAO 605
• IFAO 606
• IFAO 607
• IFAO 608
• IFAO 609
• IFAO 610
• IFAO 611
• IFAO 612
• IFAO 613
• IFAO 614
• IFAO 615
• IFAO 616
• IFAO 617
• IFAO 618
• IFAO 619
• IFAO 620
• IFAO 621, joins O.IFAO 1080
• IFAO 622
• IFAO 623

Papyri, transcriptions of:

• London British Museum, EA 10055
• London British Museum, EA 10068
• London British Museum, EA 10335
• London British Museum, EA 10375
• London British Museum, EA 10383
• London British Museum, EA 10403
• London British Museum, EA 10417
• London British Museum, EA 10430

Ostraca, transcriptions of:

• London British Museum, EA 29555
• London British Museum, EA 29560
• London British Museum, EA 50725
• London British Museum, EA 5633
• London British Museum, EA 5636
• London British Museum, EA 5643
• London British Museum, EA 5644
• London British Museum, EA 5649
• London British Museum, EA 5672

Various Middle Kingdom texts including a text from a boundary stela of Sesostris III from Uronarti, now in Khartoum, Sudan National Museum, 451 (see TopBib vii.143).

Various XXI-XXVI Dynasty texts, most from publications, including:

• Nile levels at Karnak
• building inscriptions from Napata
• inscription of Montuemhat
• adoption stela of Nitocris
• Serapeum stela, in Paris, Musée du Louvre, 239, etc.

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).

13 typescript pages with handwritten notes.
Notes by Rosalind Moss on graffiti from Thebes quoted in TopBib i2, Part 2, listing locations across Western Thebes, with references.

13.23-39: Draft notes for a 1922 dissertation.
13.40: List of words, not related to previous.

1 letter from Oliveros.
Photographs of objects in Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid.

1 letter from Omlin.
Request for assistance reading some hieratic captions in papyrus Turin 55001 (see later publication, Omlin, J. A. Der Papyrus 55001 und seine satirisch-erotischen Zeichnungen und Inschriften (1973) (OEB 16729)).

867 groups of documentation, mainly for ostraca with hieratic inscriptions, as well as a small number of ostraca with demotic or Coptic inscriptions, or ostraca with figures.
Writing boards with hieratic inscriptions are also included.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material includes transcriptions, translations, facsimiles, correspondence, annotated off-prints and various notes.

-Museums, Černý MSS 1.1-522 (523-4, numbers not allocated)
-Collections, Černý MSS 1.525-594
-Not identified, Černý MSS 1.595-625
-Miscellaneous, Černý MSS 1.626-830

245 groups of documentation for papyri with hieratic inscriptions, and a small number of papyri with demotic inscriptions.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material consists of transcriptions, translations, colour transparencies, facsimiles, photostats, annotated off-prints, various notes, and a card index for Deir el-Medina papyri.

-Museums, Černý MSS 3.1-283, 3.300-777
-Private collections, Černý MSS 3.778-780, 782-792
-Location not known, Černý MSS 3.792A
-Miscellaneous groups and unidentified locations, Černý MSS 3.794-812
Subsections within series:
-Oracular amuletic decrees, Černý MSS 3.826-875
-Abusir papyri, Černý MSS 876-888
-Love poetry, P. Chester Beatty, Černý MSS 3.781, 793.1-5
-Other love poetry texts, Černý MSS 3.793.6-793.16

12 letters from Parker, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Parker, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary) to Parker sent in Černý's absence.
Mainly professional matters with a few personal references:

• invitations extended to Černý to visit Brown University, the earliest sent in 1950
• exchange of offprints
• students from Brown University in the UK (Richard Pierce)
• assessments of students and colleagues (H. Goedicke)
• the consequences of the Suez crisis for institutions in Egypt, particularly IFAO, 1956
• Demotic papyri
• mathematical texts
• material from Soknopaious Nesos

1 letter from Lamont Moore, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Information from the Director to Ms Peck (R. A. Parker's secretary at Brown University) concerning the opening times of the gallery during Černý's 1954-5 winter visit.

1 letter from Pedersen, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Pedersen.
Černý's recommendation of E. Iversen.

3 letters from Peterson.
Objects in Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, particularly ushabti, MM 14665.

2 letters from Petrovski, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Petrovsky.
Book exchange, previous academic and social contacts.

Photograph album with typescript itinerary, an expedition to Thebes to survey graffiti, 1968.

277 groups of photographs. Most black and white images. Series includes photographs taken at sites including wall scenes in temples and tombs, and objects in museums, private collections, seen with dealers, location not known and not identified:
-91 groups for sites and wall scenes, Černý MSS 2.1-184, 405-416
-182 groups for objects in museums, private collections, dealers, location not known and not identified, Černý MSS. 2.185-400, 2.417-725
-2 photographs of Oriental Congresses: 1928, Černý MSS 2.401; 1931, Černý MSS 2.402
-2 photographs of Egyptologists: Ludwig Keimer, Černý MSS 2.403; Adolf Erman, Černý MSS 2.404

8 letters from Piankoff, 6 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Piankoff.
Book exchange, Černý's work on ostraca, as well as personal matters.

5 letters from Pinero, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Pinero.
Correspondence with an Argentinian Egyptologist.

1 letter from Pirenne to Posener regarding Černý.
Pirenne wanting to consult Černý, and publication plans for Persian period donation stelae.

Hand-drawn plan of a temple, probably Abahuda (see TopBib vii.119-120), mapped locations of graffiti (ancient Egyptian and Old Nubian) on recto, with further notes on verso.

15 letters from Plumley, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Plumley.
Professional as well as personal matters:

• Coptic studies
• Plumley's publication, Plumley, J. M., An Introductory Coptic Grammar (Sahidic Dialect) (1948) (OEB 1487)
• hieratic papyri research in Cambridge, of interest to Černý
• Plumley's promotion.
• personal and family matters of both correspondents
• mutual visits
• meetings