- NEWB1/13
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- 1885
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Large newspaper cutting from The Sunday Times, Australia, 1885 on some of Lord George Carnarvon's 'treasures' coming to Australian museums.
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Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Large newspaper cutting from The Sunday Times, Australia, 1885 on some of Lord George Carnarvon's 'treasures' coming to Australian museums.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Album of newspaper cuttings relating to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, excavation of the tomb and finds. The album includes a partial index. Roughly half of the album has been filled.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled by John Harris 'PRESS CUTTINGS' with newspaper cuttings glued or fastened on to each page.
Newpaper cuttings are on a range of topics relating to ancient Egypt and Egyptology including congresses taking place, exhibitions such as the exhibition of Egyptian Art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, book reviews, news relating to Percy Newberry, current research, obituaries, Sudan, Libya and the Libyan Desert.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Copies of lectures by Newberry including:
Sale of land at Binfield, Berkshire
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Document relating to the sale of land at Binfield, Berkshire by Humfrey Newbery, Francis Broughton, Richard Radish and William Hawthorne to Alexander Hayes, 1629.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Genealogical material including correspondence relating to genealogy, family trees, notes on members of the family.
Includes:
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Photographs or calling cards of members of Newberry's extended family. Some are named on the back by Newberry with a note on genealogy. Includes photographs of: Newberry's mother Sarah Newberry, 1905; Newberry's Uncle F.J. Newberry; Newberry's Grandfather F.W. Newberry; Mrs Sarah Pine born Kenward (1790-?); Mrs Thomas Kenward; William Munk; James Newberry (1781-); Elizabeth Newberry (1791-); Thomas Kenward (1788-); Mrs James Newberry born Dixy. Also includes receipt for 12 calling cards, 1867.
Purchase agreement for house boat
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Agreement for the purchase by Newberry from Theodore M. Davis of the dahabiah or house boat known as the 'Beduin' for
Passports belonging to Percy Newberry
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Two passports belonging to Percy Newberry, 1920-1927 and 1927-1937.
Biographical material including history of the Egypt Exploration Society
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder contains:
First page of a report titled 'Report on the work of the Archaological Institute' written by Newberry on his involvement establishing an Archaeological Institute at the University of Liverpool
Short history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt (now known as the Egypt Exploration Society) by Newberry including his involvement, with hand written corrections and notes c.1931-2 (written for the 50th anniversary meeting of the EES (see AHG/42.222.33, Griffith Institute)), and list of Officers-in-Charge of the Survey, 1890-1932
Letter lists 1887-1892 with a short summary of contents and numbered, these numbers correspond to numbers written on letters held in this collection
Handwritten notes on the history of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt
One page of typed notes on people who worked on the tomb of Tutankhamun
Diary notes and lists of correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder contains biographical notes which appear to have been written based on diary entries including: autobiographical notes; diary notes 1893-1930 including information on travel, work and names of people Newberry saw or was in touch with; lists of correspondence; cuttings of journal 1900-1902; sketches of scarabs, 1902; autobiographical notes on first meeting Reginald Stuart Poole and Flinders Petrie, 1941; bibliography.
Also includes numbered lists of correspondence received 1888-1935 with a brief summary of contents. Lists do not appear to be in any order, although some are sorted by year. These numbers correspond to numbers written on letters held in this collection.
Group photograph with Egyptologists 03
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Note on the back of the photograph suggests that it is a photograph taken at Cairo University in the 1920s, and lists the people seated left to right as: 1. [?], 2. [?], 3. Selim Hassan 4. Newberry 5. [?] 6. Junker 7. Vikentiev 8. Henri? Frankfort 9. [?] and in the front row 1. Baudouin? Van de Walle, 2. [?], 3. [?].
Group photograph with Egyptologists 02
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Back of the photograph is date stamped 17 January 1930 and a note reads 'A Benni Hassane' [at Beni Hasan].
Group photograph with Egyptologists 01
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Note on the back names some of the people as Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker, Selim Hassan and Banub Habachi.
Group photographs with Egyptologists
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder containing 3 black and white group photographs which include Percy Newberry, and all appear to have been taken in Egypt.
Photographs include the following information:
Lord Northampton's Excavation Diary
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Diary titled by Newberry 'The Theban Necropolis - Excavations 1898-1899 - Account of Men's wages for the Marquis of Northampton'.
Front section contains lists of men, the days worked and their wages.
On the front page of the diary Newberry has written 'Small service is true service whilst it lasts - of friends however humble scorn not one - The daisy by the shadow that it casts - Protects the lingering dew drop from the sun' and below 'If by such rose we see - A thorn there grows - Strive that no thorn shall be - Without its rose'.
Diary contains a brief daily log of activities and details of payments made, 1 January 1899 to 9 April 1899.
This item has been digitised and transcribed.
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
This series includes material created by Newberry and material related to Newberry created by others. It includes newspaper cuttings, letter lists, diary notes, photographs, and material relating to Newberry's genealogical research.
This series also includes Newberry's excavation diary during his work for Lord Northampton from 1898 to 1899.
Percy Edward Newberry Collection
The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and newspaper clippings.
The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files, and Research Material.
The following key subject terms collate material on the same subject, which have been listed in different series:
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/nome-ensigns-percy-newberry-collection">Nome Ensigns</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/flora-and-fauna-percy-newberry-collection">Flora and Fauna</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/predynastic-egypt-percy-newberry-collection">Predynastic Egypt</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/scarabs-and-seals-percy-newberry-collection">Scarabs and Seals</a>
Newberry, Percy Edward
Müller, H. W. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
2 letters from Černý, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to H. W. Müller.
Studies in Coptic and Černý's references requested for: Westendorf, W., Koptisches Handwörterbuch. Bearbeitet auf Grund des Koptischen Handwörterbuchs Wilhelm Spiegelbergs (1965-1977) (OEB 20563).
Müller, Dieter - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
6 letters from D. Müller.
Ostraca in the Leipzig Museum, publication plans, personal matters including Müller's emigration from East to West Germany. Müller's acknowledgement of Černý offprint (Černý, J., 'Thoth as Creator of Languages', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 34 (1948), 121-2 (OEB 1279)).
Georg Christian Julius Möller Collection
Copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, presented as loose sheets in folders arranged by cities/museums/collections, housed in five slip-cover boxes. They were collected by Möller from printed sources and from several collections he visited on research journeys. One folder in box V is by W. Spiegelberg (1893).
Möller, Georg Christian Julius
Margaret Alice Murray Collection
Notes collected on Hierakonpolis (The Hierakonpolis finds). Consists of handwritten notes made by M. A. Murray, typescript, and additional notes in a different hand.
Murray, Margaret Alice
Murray, George William Walsh - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
2 letters from Murray.
Reading of some texts from Wadi Hammamat (TopBib vii.328-37).
William Edward Moss Collection
Newspapers cuttings.
Moss, (Lt.-Col.) William Edward
Moss, Rosalind B. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
25 letters from Moss, 2 copies of letters from Černý to Moss.
6 letters from Moss to Jean Tudor-Pole (Černý's secretary at University College London), 4 letters from Tudor Pole to Moss.
Materials and data for the Topographical Bibliography:
Morenz, Siegfried - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
7 letters from S. Morenz.
2 letters, correspondence between Černý and the Home Office, concerning a visa for S. Morenz.
S. Morenz's planned trip to the UK; objects in Leipzig (stela of Penbuy, in Leipzig Museum, 5141, TopBib i2.732); an invitation to contribute to Festschrift Anthes (see Černý, J., 'A Note on the Chancellor Bay', in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 93 (1966), 35-9 (OEB 11676)).
Montet, Pierre - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Montet.
Personal.
Prints and negatives of scenes in Theban tombs, notebook and notes (some by W. B. Emery and E. J. H. MacKay).
Mond, (Sir) Robert Ludwig
Joseph Grafton Milne Collection
Two albums of photographs compiled following Milne's visits to Egypt in 1895-6 and 1905-6. One includes photographs taken during W. M. F. Petrie's expedition to Sinai. The other album contains photographs of various sites, including some 19th-century studio photographs.
Milne, Joseph Grafton
Miller, John Innes - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
2 letters from Miller, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý's secretary sent in his absence.
Miller's studies of the spice trade, Egyptian words denoting cassia and cinnamon.