Griffith Institute Archive

Weill, Jean David - correspondence

Weill - Černý MSS 21.1946-7
File
1947-1948

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

2 letters from Weill.
Personal matters, an invitation extended to Černý to stay with the Weills in Paris.

Wente, Edward F. - correspondence

Wente - Černý MSS 21.1949-50
File
1963-1964

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

2 letters from Wente.
Late Ramesside Letters and problems of readings of some of the Ashmolean papyri.

Wieder, F. C. - correspondence

Wieder - Černý 21.1965-7
File
1959

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

2 letters from Wieder, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary).
Plans for a publication of J. R. Harris' research on lexicography of ancient Egyptian minerals, Brill publishers enquiring about the possibility of a subsidy for publishing. The book was eventually published elsewhere, see Harris, J. R., Lexicographical Studies in Ancient Egyptian Minerals (1961) (OEB 8464).

Williams, John - correspondence

Williams, J. - Černý MSS 21.161
File
1942

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

1 letter from J. Williams to a Mr Leeds.
Epigraphy technique of creating rubbings, and the use of milk as a fixative.

Žába, Zbyněk - correspondence

Žába - Černý MSS 21.167-9, 1992-2031
File
1946-1951

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

42 letters from Žába.
Professional and personal matters:

Žába's studies in Prague and his dissertation on Ptahhotep (later published as, Žába, Z., Les maximes de Ptaḥḥotep (1956) (OEB 5487))
-Žába's plans to visit Oxford and study with B. Gunn
-book exchange and purchases
-the situation of the Egyptological seminar in Prague
-Egyptian collections in Czechoslovakia
-post-war Britain and Czechoslovakia
-personal matters
-the move of Černý's library to London

Unidentified letter 1 - correspondence

Unidentified letter 1 - Černý MSS 21.2475
File
1964

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

1 letter to Černý, the sender's signature is illegible.

Geographical names - slip-index

Černý MSS 34
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Workmen in the Place of Truth - slip-index

Černý MSS 36
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Miscellaneous - slip-index

Černý MSS 37
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Prosopographical notes. General
Prosopographical notes. To the Cambridge Ancient History chapter
Vocabulary of the Great Inscription of Merneptah
Egyptian words in other languages
Vocabulary from various sources
Lexicographical slips
Weights and measures

Miscellaneous - slip-index

Černý MSS 38
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Vocabulary, some from Černý, Ostraca hiératiques (Cat. Caire) (OEB 136749).
Palaeography of hieratic signs from Abusir.
Texts from mummy wrappings. See Daressy 'Les cercueils des prètres d'Ammon (deuxième trouvaille de Deir el-Bahari)', in ASAE 8 (1907), 3-38 (OEB 137609).
Index of references to Černý in publications.

Coptic Etymological Dictionary

Černý MSS 46
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Photograph album

Černý MSS 49
Series
1968

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

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

Griffith Institute Lantern Slides Collection

GI Lantern Slides
Collection

Lantern slides from various sources.

Griffith Institute Film and Media

GI Miscellanea 03
Series

Part of Griffith Institute Miscellanea Collection

Film and media from various sources.

Griffith Institute Postcards

GI Miscellanea 04
Series

Part of Griffith Institute Miscellanea Collection

Antique and modern postcards from various sources.

Griffith Institute Casts

GI Miscellanea 02
Series
c.1950s-1970s

Part of Griffith Institute Miscellanea Collection

Plaster casts of objects in Edinburgh, Royal Museum of Scotland, 1956.144 (lower part of block statue of Pedehor, Late Period), and 1961.439 (stela of Anakht, New Kingdom); Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (copper mirror of Henuiti (woman), Dyn. XII), inked in by J. Černý; Samos, Archeological Museum of Vathy (inscription from bronze mirror of Antiuzashu, Dyn. XXV-XXVI), cast sent by J. Penrose Barron of Balliol College to J. Černý, kept with copies of the texts made by J. Černý and J. Harris.

Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Griffith Institute Varia