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Alexandra Helen Wilkinson Collection

  • Wilkinson, A. MSS
  • Collection

Complete papers, including notes, drafts and photographs on ancient Egyptian gardens and cultivation, and some on jewellery.

Wilkinson, Alexandra (Alix) Helen

Percy Edward Newberry Collection

  • NEWB / Newberry MSS
  • Collection
  • 1629-1999

The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and newspaper clippings.

The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files, and Research Material.

The following key subject terms collate material on the same subject, which have been listed in different series:
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/nome-ensigns-percy-newberry-collection">Nome Ensigns</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/flora-and-fauna-percy-newberry-collection">Flora and Fauna</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/predynastic-egypt-percy-newberry-collection">Predynastic Egypt</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/scarabs-and-seals-percy-newberry-collection">Scarabs and Seals</a>

Newberry, Percy Edward

Richard Bruce Parkinson Collection

  • Parkinson, R. B. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1989-2020

1) Unfinished manuscript of 'The Life of Sinuhe: A Reader's Commentary on the Middle Kingdom Version(s)' (September 2020) (print out and relevant Word documents and PDFs). Updated version August 2022 (Word documents and PDFs).
2) Drawings of reconstructions of the Theban tomb-chapel of Nebamun, now in the British Museum in London, including sketches, tracings and a measured perspective acrylic (1997).
3) Correspondence: Letter from Esmé Little (née Peet; niece of T. E. Peet) to Richard B. Parkinson dated 30 January 1989.
4) 35mm Kodachrome slides mainly from Nile cruises with Bales Worldwide and British Museum Traveller (c. 2000–2006) [1 oversize box].

See also H. Parkinson MSS 9-10.

Parkinson, Richard Bruce

Harold Parkinson Collection

  • Parkinson, H. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1930-1994

1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].
2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).
3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].
4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).
5) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for plaque depicting a scene from the lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1979) - the plaque has been sold in the British Museum shop since the late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued c. 2010).
6) Model, plaster and resin moulds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).
7) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).
8) Album of newspaper cuttings titled "Illustrations", mostly from the Illustrated London News, bound in illustrated binding by Harold Parkinson (c. 1930).
9) Copy of Simplified Hieroglyphs arranged according to Gardiner's Signlist. Drawn in both left and right directions together with samples of cursive hieroglyphs and hieratic signs. Hieratic versions are drawn from Möller Hieratische Paläographie Vol. I (6th to 13th dynasties), of which 'Sinuhe' provides the majority of the examples, by R. B. & H. Parkinson (1988-1989).
10) Original measured perspective drawing of the White Chapel at Karnak, by H. & R. B. Parkinson (c. 1989-1990).

Parkinson, Harold

Donald Benjamin Harden Collection

  • Harden, D. B. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1923-1929

Transcripts of diaries kept during his stay as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow at the University of Michigan 1926-8, and albums of photographs taken during trips to Italy, Tunisia and Egypt 1923-9.

Harden, Donald Benjamin

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

  • Edwards, A. A. B. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1856-1892
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
  • Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
  • Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
  • Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
  • First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards Collection

  • Edwards, I. E. S. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1938-1996

Notes, notebooks, photographs, negatives, proofs, transparencies, xeroxes, and correspondence.

Edwards, Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen

Kate Griffith (née Bradbury) Collection

  • Griffith, K. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1854-1902

Two journals (trip undertaken with Amelia Edwards to America) and a box and two rolls of miscellanea.

Griffith, Kate

Hilda Mary Isabel Petrie Collection

  • Petrie, H. MSS
  • Collection
  • Probably early 1900s

Two albums. One labelled 'Scraps', which contains mainly photographs, only one of which shows Egypt (Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Gîza); the rest are British churches and historic buildings. The other album is labelled 'Post Card Album' and contains postcards showing French Prehistoric stone circles, megaliths, and chamber tombs, as well as excavations in progress.

Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel

George Wilson Bridges Collection

  • Bridges MSS
  • Collection
  • 1846-1852

Bound volume (45 x 28 x 7.5 cm) titled Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs: (Views-Portraits-Statuary-Antiquities). Taken around the Shores of the Mediterranean between the Years 1846-1852. With, or Without, Notes, Historical and Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer. It contains salted paper photographic prints of Palestine, Greece, Constantinople, Egypt, Malta, Sicily, Italy and Algiers.

Bridges, (Revd) George Wilson

James Teackle Dennis Collection

  • Dennis MSS
  • Collection
  • 1906-1907

Some 250 facsimile copies of graffiti and ostraca found by E. Naville at Deir el-Bahari, probably mostly in the Hathor-cow Chapel, in 1906-7.

Dennis, James Teackle

Frederick William Green Collection

  • Green MSS
  • Collection
  • 1897-1899

Original painting of the 'Painted Tomb' (or Tomb 100) at Hierakonpolis.

Green, Frederick William

Kom Ombo Photographs Collection

  • Kom Ombo Photographs
  • Collection
  • c.1900s-1910s

20 mounted albumen prints of scenes from the Temple of Haroeris and Sobek Triads at Kom Ombo. Some annotations on mounts.

Marburg Institute Photographs Collection

  • Marburg Photographs
  • Collection
  • c.1930s

15 black and white photographs of well-known monuments. Photographs made for the project 'Sondermappe Bilder zur aegyptischen Kunst'.

Marburg Institute

Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs Collection

  • MMA Photographs
  • Collection
  • 1900s-1940s
  • Thebes, private tombs: one incomplete set of Series T photographs [15 boxes] and a few duplicate photographs of the same [2 boxes], there are also some glass negatives of some of the same [1 box]
  • Thebes, Valley of the Kings, royal tombs: an incomplete set of photographs [1 box]
  • Thebes. Valley of the Queens, the tomb of Nefertari (QV 66), photographs [1 folder, in the same box as Valley of the Kings]
  • Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri), Temple of Hatshepsut, incomplete set of photographs [1 box]

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Colin Christopher Walters Collection

  • Walters MSS
  • Collection
  • 1960s-late 1990s

Complete papers, including notes, drafts, lectures, annotated photocopies and notebooks.

Walters, Colin Christopher

John Williams Rubbings Collection

  • Williams MSS
  • Collection
  • Between 1830-1840

4 albums containing rubbings mainly of objects in the British Museum, and also other museums and private collections including those in the J. Lee collection.

Williams, John

James Henry Breasted - Nubian Photographs Collection

  • Breasted MSS
  • Collection
  • prints 1924-1957 - negatives 1905-1906

Photographs of Nubian Temples made during Breasted's expedition, 1905-6. Photostats of temple plans annotated with Chicago, Oriental Institute photograph numbers.

Breasted, James Henry

Chicago, Oriental Institute Photographs Collection

  • Chicago OI Photographs
  • Collection
  • 1924-1957

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.

  • Thebes, tomb of Ramose [Ramosi], TT55
  • Thebes, Qurna, Temple of Sethos I
  • Thebes, Deir el-Shelwît, Temple of Isis
  • Luxor Temple

Chicago, Oriental Institute

Meyer Photographs Collection

  • Meyer MSS
  • Collection
  • 1912-1913

Photographs of foreigners as represented on various Egyptian monuments.

Meyer, Eduard

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