Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Hincks MSS
Título
Fecha(s)
- early 1830s-1866 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Volumen y soporte
3 file boxes, 2 small boxes, and 2 hard bound notebooks
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Irish Egyptologist, Assyriologist, and clergyman. Born, Cork 1792. Died, Killyleagh 1866. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied Hebrew. BA, 1812. Jnr. Fellow, 1813. MA, 1817. Ordained priest, 1817. BD, 1823. DD, 1829. Rector of Ardtrea, 1819-25. Rector of Killyleagh, 1825-66. Contributed considerably to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs and Babylonian cuneiform. Published many articles and books, including a Hebrew dictionary.
Historia archivística
The correspondence and a small amount of other papers were in the possession of Hincks's family. Prof. F. Ll. Griffith purchased them in 1932 from Hincks's grandson, Mr E. F. Davidson. The hand copy of an article by Hincks made by W. R. Dawson was in the possession of Sir A. H. Gardiner. The casts and portrait painting came from Mr E. F. Davidson.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Correspondence and other various other papers, part of the bequest of Prof. F. Ll. Griffith. Hand copy of article, part of the bequest of Sir A. H. Gardiner. The casts presumably came directly from Mr E. F. Davidson. The portrait painting came from Mr E. F. Davidson in 1953.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
- Hincks MSS 1: Correspondence, and Warren Dawson's handwritten catalogue for the same ['Box A', 'Box B' and notebook]
- Hincks MSS 2: Notes, unfinished lecture ['Box C']
- Hincks MSS 3: A small number of plaster casts made from Egyptian and Assyrian objects [two small boxes]:
- Egyptian funerary cones (Davies and Macadam, Nos 3 and 20)
- Marriage scarab of Amenhotep III [Amenophis III] (perhaps Blankenberg van Delden A18)
- Hincks MSS 4: A hand copy made by W. R. Dawson of Hincks, 'On Certain Egyptian Papyri in the British Museum', published in Transactions of the British Archaeological Association at its Second Annual Congress held at Winchester, August 1845 [one notebook]
- Hincks MSS 5: Portrait painting (oil on canvas, 79 x 104 cm, 107.5 x 133 cm with frame) by Richard Hooke (1820-1908)
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Kept as received. Correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Idioma del material
- inglés
- francés
- alemán
- latín
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descripción
List in 'Mrs Waley's lists' folder. Catalogue for correspondence and other papers by Warren R. Dawson.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
These are originals.
Existencia y localización de copias
None.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
Área de notas
Notas
- The portrait painting used to hang on the stairs below the 2nd floor of the old Griffith Institute building and was later kept in storage at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, until November 2018.