The majority of the notebooks are A5 or similar. Most of the content is handwritten unless specified otherwise.
Many of the notebooks contain transcriptions of hieratic texts from ostraca, papyri and other objects. Also recorded are transcriptions of graffiti (hieratic and hieroglyphic) and hieroglyphic texts from monuments.
Texts were often copied in situ at sites or in museums and were continually collated. Transcriptions were also made using photographs and publications as source material.
Some notebooks are thematic focusing on economic and social history issues. These subjects include Egyptian administration (nomes), prices, topography (e.g. Deir el-Medîna), etc.
Notebooks compiled from material consulted in Egyptian collections, mostly in European countries and Egypt. Černý visited museums with major collections of hieratic material from Deir el-Medîna, most notably, Museo Egizio, Turin; British Museum, London; [Ägyptisches] Museum, Berlin; and Rijksmuseum, Leiden.
Černý compiled a series of slip-indexes for the transcriptions (slip-indexes, see Černý MSS 23 to 46).

Transcriptions of papyri:
-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 196
-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 197
-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 198
-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 199
-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 201
-Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, 237

Transcription of a decree of Neferkauhor, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43053 (TopBib v.127).

Papyri, transcriptions of:
-London British Museum, EA 10055
-London British Museum, EA 10068
-London British Museum, EA 10335
-London British Museum, EA 10375
-London British Museum, EA 10383
-London British Museum, EA 10403
-London British Museum, EA 10417
-London British Museum, EA 10430
Ostraca, transcriptions of:
-London British Museum, EA 29555
-London British Museum, EA 29560
-London British Museum, EA 50725
-London British Museum, EA 5633
-London British Museum, EA 5636
-London British Museum, EA 5643
-London British Museum, EA 5644
-London British Museum, EA 5649
-London British Museum, EA 5672

Two biographical inscriptions of Rawer at Gîza.

Transcriptions. Ostraca in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum.

Transcriptions of ostraca in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, most published in Ostraca hiératiques [Catalogue général ... Caire].

Transcriptions.
-texts from Karnak
-TT 158
-Abydos
Texts from objects in museums:
-Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum
-Boston, Museum of Fine Arts
-Cairo, Egyptian Museum
-Leiden, Rijksmuseum
-New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
-Paris, Musée du Louvre
-from Saqqâra, location unknown
Ostraca:
-Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 25359
-Černý 1
-Černý 2

Hieratic texts from objects in the Tomb of Tutankhamun

Transcriptions.
Ostraca in:
-Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum
-Brussels, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire
-Leipzig, Ägyptisches Museum
-London, British Museum
-Munich Museum
-Oxford, Queen's College
-Sydney Museum
-Černý collection
-Gardiner collection
-Milne collection
-Nims collection
Objects:
-Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum
-Leipzig, Ägyptisches Museum
-Leicester Museum
-London, University College
-Munich Museum
-New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
-St. Louis Museum
-Burg collection
-Ohley collection
-seen at sales
-wooden tablets seen on market
Papyri:
-Gurob
-Kahun

Transcriptions of hieratic papyri in Strasbourg, Institut d'Égyptologie.

Transcriptions of dockets for contents of jars from Tell el-Amarna.

Translation of Papyrus Leiden, Rijksmuseum, I.369.
Early reports on the "cachette royale".

Description and texts from:
-Tombs at Deir el-Medîna
-Sanctuary of Ptah of the Valley of the Queens and Meretseger, Deir el-Medîna (TopBib i2.706-9)
-House of Butehamun, Medînet Habu (TopBib i2.773)
-stela bought by Černý at Luxor, 26.01.1933

Hieratic papyrus in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58032, decree in favour of Neskhons, B. Grdseloff's transcription collated with original by Černý in March 1950. With Grdseloff's list of related publications.
Transcription of a stela inscribed in hieratic, in London, British Museum, EA 138, B. Grdseloff's transcription collated with original by Černý.

Transcription of hieratic papyrus in London, British Museum, EA 10321.