Unidad documental simple Carter MSS vi.5.5 - Glass: notebook with notes on glass and draft of proposed article

1 notebook

Howard Carter's notebook, manuscript notes on glass and other subjects. The notebook forms part of Carter's records on glass.
Includes:

• Heading on the first page, "Notes on glass"
• 2 loose pages with notes on two magical figures, almost certainly from Tutankhamun's tomb
• Notes on general glass-making techniques and decoration, extracted from publications
• Notes on 'Red Jungle Fowl'
• Draft of Carter, Howard 1923. 'An ostracon depicting a red jungle-fowl (the earliest known drawing of the domestic cock)'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 9 (1/2), 1-4 (OEB 136396)
• Manuscript draft of a proposed article on glass, for the typescript of this article see Carter MSS vi.5.3

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Card and leather binding
• Ruled pages
• 22.7 x 17.8 x 1.2 cms
• Manufacturer's label affixed to the inner back cover: "WARRINGTON & Co. | STATIONERS & | ACCOUNT BOOK MAKERS | 23, GARRICK STREET, | LONDON. W.C.

Archived scans in Griffith Institute.

Magical figure with Osiris, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/257.html
Magical figure with Anubis, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/carter/258.html
Typescript of the proposed article on glass, see Carter MSS vi.5.3

• Formerly catalogued as Tutankhamun MSS 5
• Also formerly referred to as:
  • Carter notebook 5
  • Tutankhamun notebook 5