Identity area
Reference code
Clère MSS
Title
Date(s)
- mid 1940s-1989 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
63 boxes, and 15 folders of impressions. Also additional material consisting of 92 packages, 9 bundles of slip index cards, 3 large boxes, and 1 box containing 35 mm transparencies in rolls.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
French Egyptologist. Born, Paris 1906. Died, Paris 1989. Trained as an artist at the École Bernard Palissy and the École des Arts Decoratifs. First started studying Egyptology with Henri Sottas at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, 1924. Student, École du Louvre, 1925. Worked with Bruyère at Deir el-Medîna, and then with Bisson de la Roque at Madâmûd. Studied Egyptian language with Moret, Weill, and Sethe. Qualified in the history of religion, phonetics, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Berber. Director d'Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, 1949. Visiting Professor, Brown University, 1951-2 and 1960-1. Wilbour Fellow, Brooklyn Museum, 1967. Published many linguistic articles as well as several monographs.
Archival history
Part of the estate of J. J. Clère.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by his widow, Madame Irène Clère, in 1995.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Notebooks, notes, drafts of articles, teaching notes, xeroxes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, impressions, photographs, negatives, transparencies, tracings, drawings, and correspondence.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Mostly kept as received. Correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford
Language of material
- French
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Preliminary catalogue: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4clerems.html.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Originals of MSS. group 04 in the Musée du Louvre (xerox copies in the Griffith Institute archive), together with a small group of miscenalleous notes, correspondence, prints, etc.
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Publication note
-Publication details indicated in Clère catalogue.
Notes area
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Description control area
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Rules and/or conventions used
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Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
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Sources
Digital object metadata
Filename
Clerecatalogue-_new_version_04-03-2016.pdf
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Media type
Text
Mime-type
application/pdf