Zone d'identification
Cote
Gardiner MSS
Titre
Date(s)
- c. 1900-1963 (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
89 boxes, 74 card index boxes, 26 packages, 72 books, offprints, and albums.
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
British Egyptologist. Born, Eltham 1879. Died, Oxford 1963. Educated at Charterhouse, then studied Classics, Hebrew and Arabic at The Queen's College, Oxford. Worked with A. Erman on the preparation of material for the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache and was sub-editor 1906-8. Laycock Studentship, Worcester College, Oxford, 1906-12. Edited many Egyptological publications, including the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. Published extensively in the field of Egyptology. Honorary Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Society, 1917-20, Vice President and then President, 1959-63. He was awarded many distinctions during his career. Specialized in hieratic texts on papyri and ostraca. Gardiner published the 1st edition of his Egyptian Grammar in 1927, which is still one of the essential learning aids for Middle Egyptian. Gardiner was also a member of the Tutankhamun excavation team, recording inscriptions from objects found in the tomb during the first few seasons.
Histoire archivistique
Bequeathed to the Griffith Institute by Sir A.H. Gardiner.
Additional material:
- A copy of My Early Years, by Sir Alan Gardiner. Typed, photocopied and bound by John Gardiner at Ballaghaue, Isle of Man, 1986. Includes Henry John Gardiner, … A very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun tomb by Margaret Gardiner. Donated by Mr David Brown in 2004 (Gardiner MSS 41.11).
- Incomplete (Preface and pp. 1-27) typescript of Sir A.H. Gardiner's My Early Years, annotated by Gardiner himself, donated by Mr and Mrs Hulin in 2004 (Gardiner MSS 41.12).
- Copy of My Early Years presented by Professor John Baines in December 2013 (Gardiner MSS 41.13).
- A fourth copy of My Early Years (Gardiner MSS 41.14) accessed with a copy of My Working Years, by Sir Alan Gardiner (Gardiner MSS 41.15).
- A.H. Gardiner's copy of G. Maspero, Sur quelques inscriptions du temps d'Amenemhâit Ier au Ouady Hamamât (1891); bound together with H. Brugsch's copy of the article by V. Golenishchev, "Epigraficheskie ruzultaty poiezdki v Uadi Khammamât" (ca. 1888); interleaved pages with annotations of A.H. Gardiner; transferred from Sackler Library on 14/05/2013 [Shelfmark: 383.3 Mas; Library Barcode: 302098243V; Aleph System Number: 011852561; https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44OXF_INST/35n82s/alma990118525610107026] (Gardiner MSS 41.16).
- "The Gardiner Pamphlets": typescript with a catalogue of part of Gardiner's personal collection of pamphlets (offprints and small format publications), now on permanent loan to the Swansea University Library; transferred from Sackler Library on 17/06/2014 and accessioned on 03/05/2016 (Gardiner MSS 41.17).
- A second and third copies of My Working Years, by Sir Alan Gardiner; transferred from Sackler Library on 01/10/2021 [Shelfmark: 318 Gar; Aleph System Number: 012148408] (Gardiner MSS 41.18-19).
- Invitations to A.H. Gardiner's 80th birthday party; internal transfer from GI secretary's office records in March 2010 (Gardiner MSS 39.58).
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
The estate of Sir A.H. Gardiner. Additional material, as stated above in Archival history.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Mostly kept as received. Correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d’accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. Access to correspondence is subject to prior approval by the Keeper of the Archive. The rest of the material is open access and available for consultation at the Griffith Institute Archive.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
- anglais
- français
- allemand
Écriture des documents
Notes sur la langue et l'écriture
And other European languages.
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Catalogue.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals, except where indicated in catalogue.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Not known.
Unités de description associées
Note de publication
- Publication details indicated in catalogue.
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Dates de production, de révision, de suppression
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