Identity area
Reference code
Žába - Černý MSS 21.167-9, 1992-2031
Title
Žába, Zbyněk - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1946-1951 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
0.5 cm, 42 letters
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1970)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
Czech
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Zaba papers in the Archive of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague.
Notes area
Note
The rest of the Žába/Černý correspondence created between the 1950s and 1970 was returned to Žába and later donated by his family to the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague. The letters concern the establishment of the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology in the 1950s, Žába's sojourns in Egypt, expeditions to Abusir and Nubia, and plans for Černý's visit to Czechoslovakia (1967).