Jaroslav Černý Collection - Griffith Institute Archive

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Černý MSS

Titolo

Jaroslav Černý Collection

Date

1918-1988 (Accumulazione)

Livello di descrizione

Raccolta

Consistenza e supporto

52 boxes, 56 card index boxes, 8 packages, 4 rolls, 1 book, 1 album and 7 ring binders.

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Nome del soggetto produttore

Černý, Jaroslav

(1898-1970)

Nota biografica

Czech Egyptologist. Born, Plzeň 1898. Died, Oxford 1970.
Son of Antonín Černý (1861-?) and Anna Černá, née Navrátilová (1866-?). Educated at elementary school (1904-1909) and state grammar school (gymnasium) in Plzeň (1909-1917). Studied at Charles University, Prague (1917-1922, matriculated for winter semester 1917/1918, doctoral degree awarded 1922 (see https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/archiv/public/book/bo/1542020090975492/147/?lang=en). Employed as clerk in the Živnobanka central branch in Prague (1919-1927). Associated with the IFAO from 1925 as visiting scholar, later member of expedition to Deir el-Medina. Awarded scholarship to study hieratic ostraca in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Sponsored by T. G. Masaryk, P. Petschek and Orientální ústav, Prague. Secretary of the Orientální ústav from 1929. Worked with Sir A. Gardiner on ostraca from different European collections as well as on hieratic papyri. Formal contract with Gardiner from 1934. Lecturer in Egyptology, Charles University, Prague, 1929-46. Worked in Sinai in the 1930s, resulting in his new edition of Gardiner and Peet, The Inscriptions of Sinai. Excavated at Deir el-Medîna, 1925-1970. Worked as epigrapher in Abydos with A. Calverley and M. Broome.
Affiliated to the Czechoslovak legation in Cairo from 1942, in diplomatic service of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile (London) until 1945.
Appointed Edwards Professor of Egyptology, University College London, 1946-51. Professor of Egyptology, Oxford, 1951-65 (Emeritus, 1965-70). Worked in Nubia recording temple inscriptions at Amada, Gebel el-Shems, and Abû Simbel during the UNESCO campaign.
Initiated and co-organised topographical and epigraphic mapping on the Theban mountain as part of the UNESCO and CEDAE campaign.
Published extensively in the field of Egyptology including publications on palaeography, Ramesside period, social history, religion, and late New Kingdom hieratic inscriptions.
Married Marie Sargant née Hloušková (1899-1991).

Storia archivistica

Bequeathed to the Griffith Institute by Jaroslav Černý in his will (Černý MSS 19.71).
Some additional material remained in the possession of Professor Černý's widow Mrs Marie Sargant (née Hloušková), which following her death in 1991 passed to Černý's ... »

Modalità di acquisizione

The estate of Jaroslav Černý. Some additional material presented by Professor Naomi E. Sargant, Lady McIntosh (Černý's stepdaughter) in 1992.
Remaining additional material presented by Mrs Anna Allot (Černý's stepdaughter) in 2011.
Selected family ... »

Area del contenuto e della struttura

Ambito e contenuto

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian

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Sistema di ordinamento

Mostly kept as received. Arranged in 49 series:

Correspondence (Series 21) has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Series 47 - condolence letters to Mrs Černý, arranged alphabetically.
Series 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 18, 20, 22, 23, 24 and 24A, 25, 26, 27,

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Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso

Condizioni di accesso

Property of the Griffith Institute. Access to correspondence is subject to prior approval by the Archivist. No restrictions for rest.

Condizioni di riproduzione

Lingua dei materiali

egiziano antico
ceco
inglese
francese
tedesco
italiano

Scrittura dei materiali

copto
ieratico egiziano
geroglifici egiziani
latino

Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura

There are notes for hieratic palaeography, hieroglyphic transcriptions, occasional use of Egyptological conventional transliteration.

Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici

Mostly without problems. Parts of correspondence on fragile airmail paper and lower-quality paper.
Working with card indexes requires returning cards in their proper sequence.

Strumenti di ricerca

Catalogue and a correspondence handlist.

Area dei materiali collegati

Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali

These are originals except where indicated otherwise in itemised description.

Esistenza e localizzazione di copie

Copies of Černý MSS 3.595, 3.627, 13.23, 13.30, 15.215A, 15.220, 19.64 (Černý's own bibliography), 20.1, 21.272, 21.277, 21.324, 21.707, 21.712, 21.732, 21.1014, 21.1526. Select copies of notebooks, series 17, notebooks not identified. Varied notes from the Coptic Etymological dictionary. In Departmental archives and library of the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, Prague.
Photocopies of some Černý MSS (mostly of notebooks and related to IFAO ostraca) at the IFAO, Cairo.

Unità di descrizione collegate

Other Archives:

Archives of the IFAO (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, Cairo), photographs and a personal file of J. Černý.
Oxford University Archive, Bodleian Libraries, J. Černý’s academic staff file, pension file, plus central University

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Other Archives:

Archives of the IFAO (French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, Cairo), photographs and a personal file of J. Černý.
Oxford University Archive, Bodleian Libraries, J. Černý’s academic staff file, pension file, plus central University correspondence files concerning Egyptology and the Professorship (UR 6/ER/2).
Charles University in Prague Archive, the dissertation, examiners' reports, and a personal file of J. Černý.
Archives of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, obituaries and a limited number of materials related to Černý's stay in Philadelphia.
Folder with a small group of handwritten notes found inside six different books in the library of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague.
Parish register, Roman-Catholic, Plzeň (N), 1897 - 1898 = fol. 1 - 401. Digital access: http://www.portafontium.eu/register/soap-pn/plzen-075.
Presidential Office Archive, Prague, fonds Prezidentská kancelář, collection Přemysl Šámal (1867-1941), correspondence, and a file on J. Černý, no. 1024, titled 'Doc. Dr. Jaroslav Černý, cesta do Egypta'.
Archives of the Czech National Bank, Prague, fonds Živnobanka, box 4888, personal file J. Černý; fonds Živnobanka, collection Correspondence of Director General Jaroslav Preiss, several letters from Černý from the 1930s.
Archives of the National Museum, fonds J. V. Prášek, correspondence, letters of Černý to Prášek.
Archives of the City of Plzeň, Schools, State Grammar School school certificates.
Departmental archives and library of the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures, collection J. Černý (family photographs, letters, lectures, offprints, notes).
Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences, v.v.i. fonds František Lexa, correspondence from J. Černý.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archive, Prague, fonds London archive (Londýnský archiv), series personal files (OSO), file J. Černý, file M. Sargant.
Librarium of The Hague, Netherlands, Jaroslav Černý, [Herbert Walter] Fairman, C. (Constant) de Wit, Notes de grammaire Neo-Egyptienne: Late Egyptian Grammar. Rédigées par J. Černý, revues par Fairman, copiées par C. De Wit (en 1952) [original manuscript; no imprint (c. 1950)]. Previously at the library of Professor Michel Malaise Michel Malaise (1943-2016). For more information, see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30231369325&searchurl=sortby%3D20%26an%3Dwit%2Bde%2Bconstant (accessed 19/09/2019).

Griffith Institute Archive:

Petrie MSS ('Legends copied from Album of photographs taken by W. M. Flinders Petrie of Egyptian objects in the Museums of Bologna, Florence, and Turin, April 1893. (Copied by J. Černý, Oxford 1954).').
Gardiner MSS correspondence.
Gunn MSS, notebook 54, enclosed letters.
Newberry MSS.
Fonds of his correspondents, see series Černý MSS 21, and individual subseries.

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Nota bibliografica

Publication details indicated in Černý catalogue, under individual series or subseries entries.

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NRA 41268 Cerny

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