- Gell MSS
- Collection
- c. 1815-1820s
Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.
Gell, (Sir) William
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Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.
Gell, (Sir) William
Complete papers (see catalogue for more details).
Magee, Diana Norma Elizabeth
Myrtle Florence Broome Collection
415 items of correspondence written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.
Fifteen items are groups of two letters (16, 35, 51, 55, 97, 111, 154, 198, 227, 268, 306, 319, 325, 363, 408, and 414, not all of them by Miss Broome), four of which are actually cards/postcards (16A, 306A, and 414A-B); item 156 is a group of three letters [= 429 letters and 4 cards/postcards in total].
A few letters include drawings/maps; seven letters include photographs (111, 123, 273-276, and 279); letter 337 includes a newspaper cutting; many of the letters include the original envelopes in which they were sent; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.
Broome, Myrtle Florence
Chicago, Oriental Institute Photographs Collection
A selection of black and white photographs taken by the University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey, Luxor, Egypt, in the first half of the 20th Century. See https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/projects/epigraphic-survey.
Chicago, Oriental Institute
Warren Royal Dawson Collection
Two notebooks
Dawson, Warren Royal
Three A4 folders containing an unpublished annotated typescript of a monograph on the constellations of the Babylonian and Egyptian sphere and their modifications by the Greeks of the Achaean period.
Eisler, Robert
Plans, tracings, and photographs made in TT 55, 92, and 97.
Emery, Walter Bryan
Charles Gabriel Gleyre Drawings Collection
34 black and white photographs of Gleyre's drawings.
Gleyre, (Marc) Charles Gabriel
Margaret Alice Murray Collection
Notes collected on Hierakonpolis (The Hierakonpolis finds). Consists of handwritten notes made by M. A. Murray, typescript, and additional notes in a different hand.
Murray, Margaret Alice
Two albums containing approximately 460 black and white photographs taken by various members of the IFAO team during excavations at Deir el-Medîna during the 1920s and 30s. Photographs interspersed with some notes and drawings.
Nagel, Georges
Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.
Horeau, Hector
George Alexander Hoskins Collection
3 albums containing watercolours and sketches.
Hoskins, George Alexander
Oliver Robert Gurney Collection
Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.
Gurney, Oliver Robert
Archibald Henry Sayce Collection
Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.
Sayce, (Revd) Archibald Henry
Typescript in 12 folders with a complete synopsis of Theban tomb scenes, as well as three letters.
Scharff, Alexander
(a) 20 folders containing handwritten notes, pencil drawings, negatives, photographs, and postcards of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun (= MSS 1-20) (1935).
(b) 18 folders containing notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of thrones, chairs, stools and footstools mainly from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (1935) and the British Museum in London (1936), as well as from other collections, and material gathered from publications; 1 index card box with Segal's reference notes for his furniture records; and letter from T. G. H. James to M. Eaton-Krauss regarding Segal correspondence in the British Museum along with photocopies of the letters.
Segal, Walter
James Parker Simpson Photographs Collection
53 black & white photographs.
Simpson, James Parker
Notebook containing the transcription and notes on papyrus Reisner I.
Smither, Paul Cecil
Wilhelm Spiegelberg Collection
Spiegelberg, Wilhelm
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
Carter, Howard
Two portfolios containing drawings and plans, and three illustrated notebooks.
Wild, James William
153 black and white negatives taken in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. Boxes marked with the date '1910'. Most of the Egyptian negatives show Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
Wylie
William Henry Bartlett Collection
Correspondence.
Bartlett, William Henry
Aylward Manley Blackman Collection
Drawings.
Blackman, Aylward Manley
1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].
Bonomi, Joseph
Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs and related topics (Roman obelisks, Iseum in Rome, Isiac pomp described by Apuleius, Egyptian rites, mummies, etc.). Left unfinished.
Bracci, Pietro
Four xerox copies of sketches of Philae drawn on 26 January 1846.
Coyet, Adolf
Francis Giesler Newton Collection
Article on churches in Sardinia, with additional notes and drawings, and watercolours and drawings of Italian towns, churches and architectural features, as well as view of the ziggurat at Ur. Non-Egyptological.
Newton, Francis Giesler
Copies of some stelae in the British Museum. Within Sir A. H. Gardiner MSS Collection (esp. Gardiner MSS 27; see also Gardiner MSS 21).
Porter, Bertha