Pencil drawing with Christian altar in the first hypostyle hall at Philae temple complex:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Early Christian Shrine. Temple of Isis. (Philae)' (ink note).

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

• top left: seated male figure
• top middle: male figure from behind
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• top right: male head
• middle left: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• middle middle: male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians. (Shellalee)' (ink note)
• middle right: head of woman
  • [on mount] 'Woman of Derr' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
• bottom middle: male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom right: standing male figure.

Seven pencil sketches:

• top left: dahabiyya
• top middle: five figures
• top right: standing male figure
• middle: skeleton of camel
  • [on sketch] 'In the Desert. March 11th 1874' (in pencil)
  • [on mount] 'Skeleton of a Camel.' (ink note)
• bottom left: standing male figure
  • [on mount] 'Shellalee' (ink note)
• bottom middle: three male figures
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubians.' (ink note)
• bottom right: reclining male figure
  • [on mount] 'Cataract Nubian' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Inscribed Rock. Philae.' (ink note).

Nine sketches:

• top left: pencil sketch of donkey
• top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
  • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
• top right: pencil sketch of man wading
• middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
• middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
  • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
• middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
• bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
  • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
  • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note).

Four pencil sketches:

• top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
• middle left: man standing
• middle middle: five men sitting and standing
• middle right: man standing
• bottom: three men and two camels.

Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:

• mounted
• [on sketch] 'Near Siout. Jany 1 1874' (painted note)
• [on mount] 'Waterwheel. Siout' (ink note).

Nine pencil sketches:

• top left: person with staff
• top middle: man sitting and smoking
  • [on mount] 'Ali, the Nubian.' (ink note)
• top right: veiled woman with jars
• middle left: head of man
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• middle middle: group of men with boat near Manfalut
  • [on mount] 'Group of Natives (waiting for the Ferry) Manfaloot' (ink note)
• middle right: Man sitting
  • [on mount] 'Riskalli' (ink note)
• bottom left: Reïs Hassan
  • [on mount] 'Reïs Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: man reclining on ?carved block
• bottom right: man standing
  • [on mount] 'Salame' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of hypostyle hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnac. Looking East.'

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Hypostyle Hall. Karnak. Looking West.' (ink note).

Two images:

• upper: watercolour of the mountains above Thebes
  • [on mount] 'Mountain range above Luxor. East Bank.' (ink note)
• lower: clipping with engraving of landscape with caption: 'Mansanga, looking east from Moramballa Marsh'
  • [on clipping] Extraordinary resemblance to mountain range near Thebes, R. Bank. See sketch by ABE. S. East Africa. On the river [illegible], flowing out of Lake Nyassa, + into the Zambesi. This is near the mouth of the [illegible].' (pencil note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of Coptic convent near Naqadah:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Coptic Convent - near Negada' (ink note).

Pencil sketch with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Bargaining for a Camel. Assouan.' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of palace gateway, Medinet Habu:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Palace Gateway: Medinet Haboot.' (ink note).

Watercolour and pencil sketch of necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Necropolis of Abydus and Kom es Sultan' (ink note).

9 pencil sketches:

• top left: man leaning on staff and woman with jar
• top middle: man
• top right: two women, one with a child
• middle left: woman with jar
• middle middle: man sitting
• middle right: woman with child
• bottom left: woman collecting water
• bottom middle: man with pipe
• bottom left: two men.

Handwritten text:

• pencil text on paper
• loose
• 18.2 x 22.6 cm
• [text]:

'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]

here it is if he cannot find in history if he cannot

find it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then

became he wants an [?] not to look for it then

here is abundance say there books are only words which

[?] him another thing him [?] [?] being

subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of

[?] the [?] of [?] the [?]

of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all

on oldest copy are not another is any

years old which years [?] [?] [?]

except it [?], and year [?] [?] first

year seeing the middle [?]

but is like a middle [?]

The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry

The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]

are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'

Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.

Eurasian oystercatcher (Haematopus ostralegus) at Asyut:

• watercolour
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 033
• 17.4 x 12.1 cm
• [on mount] 'Shot near the Nile.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '32' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Shot near Siut on the Nile. / '22 April 1843' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'It has webbed feet and / the beak is very singular. / The size is about half as / large again as the Sterna / Nilotica' (pencil note)

Partial view of the columns and architraves of the west side of the forecourt of the Temple of Khons:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top right corner] '1'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, verso] 'Comparaison des différents ordres Egyptiens'. (ink note)
• 20.9 by 19.9 cm

Partial view of the pillars, columns and architraves of the Pillared Hall of the Festival Temple in the great temple at Karnak, with intricate details of relief scenes and inscriptions:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Comparaison des différents ordres Egyptiens'. (ink note)
• 14.5 by 16.8 cm

View of the columns and architraves of the west side of the hypostyle of the Temple of Khons:

• mounted
• [on mount, verso] 'Comparaison des différents ordres Egyptiens'. (ink note)
• 22.1 by 16.4 cm

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.
• Series 33 is an etymological card index.

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).

Drawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.
Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.
Card index created 1958.

Index of Late Egyptian Grammar, index for Egyptian Dictionary, and various other indexes. 18 notebooks containing copies of hieratic papyri and ostraca. Small watercolour. 2 boxes of family papers and ephemera, including personal correspondence, certificates, photographs, notes for Peet’s books on Neolithic Italy, a couple of pages from an inaugural lecture, newspaper cuttings, a travel record small notebook, a Latin and Greek classes notebook, a diary, etc.

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

With an unsigned dedication on the front matter by Mr Rolf Gardiner:

"For the Library of the Griffiths[sic] Institute
on the occasion of a Memorial Dinner
held, by invitation of the Provost, at the
Queen's College, Oxford, in commemoration of
Sir Alan Gardiner
on Saturday 23 May 1964

Followed by the signatures of the attendees.

With an enclosure at the back containing the souvenir booklet printed by Oxford University Press on the occasion of the Memorial Dinner (sections: "Menu", "Sir Alan Gardiner, Kt.", a portrait photograph, and "Sir Alan Gardiner's Publications"), and a loose calling card of Rolf Gardiner.

Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs and related topics (Roman obelisks, Iseum in Rome, Isiac pomp described by Apuleius, Egyptian rites, mummies, etc.). Left unfinished.

Notebooks, notes, copies of texts, photographs, lecture notes, drafts of articles, and facsimiles.

Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.