Portfolio titled 'Tracings Egypt / JB.' (ink) Ink note: 'Tracings Egypt' Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'J' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Nubia & one Dendera' (originally all underlined, now only 'Nubia') (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Back cover: Pencil note: 'Tracings Egyptian' (almost certainly by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Sketches / Complete'.
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB' (ink) Pencil note: '15' Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'E' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss) Pencil note: 'Various - mostly Thebes' (underlined) (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Ink table of contents with some pencil notes on piece of paper partially glued to cover:
'1 Alphabet'
'2 Three pieces some women and a child from / a tomb at Thebes (underlined in pencil) / Pillar of a tomb at Sakkara / Name on Trail's block of Basalt'
'3 Name on a tablet Cairo / Name of the Faioum'
'4 Note'
'5 Hierogs invented by Birch'
'6 Hierogs found at Carthage'
'7 Name of places mentioned in the Bible / in and near Egypt'
'8 Hieroglys on the stem of a head rest / Walter Hawkins'
Pencil notes partially covered by piece of paper glued to cover: 'This is a / rubbing / from some / Hieroglyphics / found among / the ruins of / Carthage / Given to me in Egypt'
Pencil note on small piece of paper mounted on verso of cover: 'Ask Prisse where lives / the man who cuts paper / inscriptions' Pencil note on small piece of paper mounted on verso of cover: 'Lahaf / Vermilion / House'.
Architectonical fragment (perhaps jamb or pillar) mentioning "the Osiris Nehehniotef, justified" from an unidentified tomb at Saqqara, current location not known (TopBib iii.2.749A), and perhaps related to the stela of Nehehniotef, Dyn. XIX, from a tomb at Saqqara, formerly in Passalacqua collection, now in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 7273 (TopBib iii.2.733):
pencil sketch on paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Bottom]
Mourning women and child behind the [coffin being dragged] from a scene depicting the funeral procession of the deceased in the Hall of Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.91.(4).I):
pencil and watercolor (black and pink) sketch on tracing paper
mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Middle and Bottom]
15.7 x 12.1 cm
[on mount] 'Two young women a child / and a grey headed old woman / putting dust on their heads / at the departure of the boat / that carries the mummy of / some relation or benefactor / to the Tomb / Drawn from the wall of a / tomb at Gorna' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Tomb of Nefer Hotep (49)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Rubbing of a hieroglyphic inscription on an object thought to come from Carthage (not identified) (TopBib vii.367A):
ink rubbing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
mounted
4 x 16.2 cm (11.2 x 17.6 cm with mount)
[on rubbing mount] 'This is a rubbing / from some Hieroglyphics / found among the ruins / of Carthage. / Given to me by / Doctor Lee of Aylesbury / 1840' (ink note)
Cartouches of Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti and Akhenaten on a block, probably basalt, originally from Amarna but found at el-Ashmunein, formerly in J. Traill's collection and current location not known:
pencil sketches and ink notes on paper
partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Middle]
partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
5.4 x 5.5 cm
[text] '1843 / Cairo to Wady Halfa / and back in 44 days / journey completed by the / end of September / Nº/ 24 Edinboro or Quarterly account of / Eastern Africa' (pencil note)
[text] 'Cassot island near / and belonging to / Crete (Candia) in this / island about the begin[nin]g / of the Greek war a ship / belonging to the french / ship conveying arms / which was taken by / pirates and conveyed / to this island who after / taking the contents / permitted the ship to / go. Soon after this / event came to the / island a large french vessel / of war and a smaller / one to demand the / restitution of the / arms which was / given up The captain / of the larger vessel / finding two (?) / slaves one tall the / other short bought / them of the master / The Tall slave is the / sister of a man / in the service of / Husseyn son of H II M A called / Krasheed'
[on mount] 'This note written on board a Steemer / belonging to Muhammad Ali at Marseilles / at the request of the brother of the person to be / enquired for on my arrival in Paris / The brother a slave that accompanied / the son of M Ali on the voyage from Egypt / to France His office was to wait on the / young prince and to rub his feet' (pencil note)
Note from the voyage to France (second incomplete version):
pencil text on paper
mounted
4.8 x 6.5 cm
[text] 'In the beginning of the / Greek war a french vessel / conveying arms was cap / tured by greek pirates and / taken to Cassot, a small / island near Crete (Candia)'
View of the First Pylon of the Small Temple of Medinet Habu, looking East towards the Colossi of Memnon, on the West Bank of Thebes, not finished (TopBib ii.462):
Scene depicting Osorkon I receiving heb-sed from Amun holding scimitar, in register I of pilaster (129) in the Portico of the Bubastides in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.36(129).I):
pencil sketch on paper
loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
5.2 x 8.2 cm
[on sketch] 'DYN XXII / AB III BI 257' (pencil note)
Rubbing of the hieroglyphic inscription of an inscribed headrest, provenance not know, formerly in Walter Hawkins collection, current location not known: