Identity area
Reference code
Barns MSS
Title
Date(s)
- c.1960-1974 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
2 boxes and 1 package
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British Egyptologist and papyrologist. Born, Bristol 1912. Died, Oxford 1974. Studied at University of Bristol, BA 1932, then at Oxford, MA 1942, D. Phil. 1947. Lady Wallis Budge Fellow in Egyptology, University College, Oxford, 1945-53. Lecturer in Papyrology, Oxford, 1953-65. Professor of Egyptology, 1965-74. Ordained 1956. Published mainly on papyrology.
Archival history
Not known.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Presented by his widow in 1974.
Barns MSS 4.6: transferred from the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library (formerly Sackler Library) in June 2023.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Notebooks, notes, copies of texts, photographs, lecture notes, drafts of articles, and facsimiles.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Catalogue.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
None.
Related units of description
Publication note
- Publication details indicated in catalogue.
Notes area
Note
- Portrait: Griffith Institute Photograph 101.14.
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Digital object metadata
Filename
Griffith_Institute_photograph_Egyptologists_101_14.jpg
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Image
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image/jpeg