Drawing of a detail from a battle scene, Seti I in a chariot charging Libyans on the battlefield, on the north exterior wall of the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

• black ink drawing
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10.2 cm
• Below the drawing are two small cartouches of the king (in ink)
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

View of the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara:

• pencil, black ink (probably), monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Pyramid of Hawa'rah — a, Small canal — b Remains of columns & architraves.' (pencil note)

The fallen colossal limestone statue of Ramesses II ('Abû el-Ḥol'), from the south gate of the Ptah enclosure at Mit Rahina:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Colossal figure at Memphis' (pencil note)

View of the Mosque of Ahmad Ibn Tulun in Cairo showing the courtyard with the ablution fountain:

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Mosque of Ibu Too'loo'n, vulgarly called Ga'me' Teyloo'n — a, dome over the tank — b, the great minaret — / c, minaret of a mosque at the eastern angle of the Ckal'' at el-Kebsh — / Erected A H 263 AD 876-7' (pencil note)

View of the aqueduct at the Cairo citadel and the Fumm al-Khalig water intake tower:

• pencil, black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.8 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Aqueduct of Musr — a, the building in which are the water-works — b, entrance of the Canal of Musr — / c, part of the bridge of the Canal — d, part of Mount Moockut'tum.' (pencil note)

View of the sunrise (or sunset) at the Giza pyramid field:

• monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 9.9 cm
• no annotations

Head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, with one man standing below to the right side of the Sphinx's head while another man climbs towards its chin:

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 13.4 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top right corner] 'The Great Sphinx.' (pencil note)

View of a funeral procession at the southern cemetery of Cairo. The cemetery is also known as Qarafa:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.5 x 10 cm
  [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Southern Cemetery of Musr, called El-Ckara'feh - a, the tomb of the Im'am Es'h Sha'fe'ee' (pencil note)

View of the colonnade and minbar in the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As in Cairo, with a figure leaning against a column in the foreground and two men in conversation at the far end of the colonnade:

• pencil, black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.5 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Place of Prayer in the Mosque of 'Amir.' (pencil note)

View of the courtyard of the mosque of Amr ibn al-As Mosque in Cairo, viewed from within the colonnades lining the courtyard:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 10.1 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Interior view of the Mosque of 'Amir, or Musr 'Alee'ckah. / Erected in the middle of the seventh century - the 1st mosque built in Egypt.' (pencil note)

View showing the Bab al-Nasr gate, the mosque of al-Hakim, and part of the city walls in Cairo. Although the caption mentions the Bab al-Futuh gate, it is not recorded in this watercolour.

• pencil, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.4 x 10.1 cm
• [Lane's caption on verso of album page, at top left corner] 'The Ba'b en-Nasr & Ba'b el Footon' being two of the principal gates of Musr el(?) ~~xxxxxx xxxxxx xx xx ~~ : - a the former - b the latter. c c the two / minarets of the ruined mosque of El-Wha'kim. / Erected A H. 480 - A.D 1087-8.' (pencil note)

General view of the Egyptian village of Rasheed (Rosetta) with a mosque in the centre and the Nile beyond.

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 9.7 cm
• [Lane's annotation on verso of album page, at top left corner]: 'The Southern Entrance to Rasheed, or Rosetta.' (pencil note)

A scene with four women inside a room within a dwelling or perhaps a coffee shop(?), probably in Cairo or elsewhere in Egypt.
The woman on the left wears a white and red striped garment and white turban with her back to the artist and holds a small teacup in her right hand, offering it to one of the other women.
Background right, a woman wearing a blue, red and red checked jilbab with a black veil over a blue garment, greeted at the door by a servant girl wearing a blue garment and head covering with her back to the artist
Foreground right, a woman wearing a green garment and white scarf is seated on a red floor cushion

• watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.1 cm
• no annotations

Street scene, probably in Cairo, with a man wearing a blue garment and a white turban, walking and holding aloft a long stick in his right hand, preceding another man wearing a green garment and red turban riding a horse.

• watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.1 cm
• no annotations

Photograph of the portrait bust of Edward William Lane now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

• Black and white (sepia) photographic print
• Mounted with gilded frame and borders
• 15.2 x 12.5 cm

Handwritten notes recording contacts at various institutions whom the former owners of the album may have consulted in relation to the album's contents.

• 14 x 9 cm
• [annotation]: 'See Mr Gibb Smith / V&A. / Capt. Hollis Smith / of Parker Galleries / suggested I bring the / book & you'd introduce / me to the right person / John Halton(?) in Library, / or Print Room -'

Handwritten note regarding Mrs May C Buckton (see Lane MSS 8.0a), who was one of the former owners of the album.

• blue ink, ballpoint
• 14 x 9 cm
• [annotation] 'Mrs May C Buckton / died 1950ish age 100 yrs / widow of Bishop / Buckton, sometime / Bishop of Gibraltar / (or Malta?)'

Note with annotations in two different hands referencing the album's contents and previous ownership.

• 12.4 x 10 cm
  • Upper annotation, later than the following note
    • blue ink, ballpoint
    • [Note] 'Pictures by C W Lane Edward Lane? / or Richard Ladd? / some pictures of his in Tate'
  • Lower annotation, earlier than the preceding note
    • Black or dark blue ink
    • 'Passed on with much / pleasure to Kitten and / Rosemary from May C / Buckton, knowing the / book will have such a / good home'

Cover of the Lane presentation album.

• 26.3 x 20 cm
• Embossed gold note on spine exterior reads: 'Egypt C.W. Lane'.

Approximately 10,500 colour transparencies (35mm) mostly of Egypt (temples, tombs and other ancient monuments) [Dewey MSS 1], but also of different countries in the Middle East (Syria, Persia, Turkey, etc.) as well as the Far East [Dewey MSS 2]. They are cross-referenced with an extensive card index [Dewey MSS 3] and cover a period from the early 1980s until the early 2000s. They consist of images from virtually every site in the Egyptian Delta region and the Nile Valley.

Corpus of early traveller’s graffiti from selected sites and monuments in Egypt and Sudan, including transcriptions and photographs of graffiti, collated by Roger De Keersmaecker between 1965 and the 2010s, then published by him between 2001 and 2019.

Papers, including notebooks, notes, tracings and squeezes, made in Theban tombs and elsewhere, photographs, collection of coloured hieroglyphic signs, indexes of scenes in Theban tombs, etc.

Card indexes used in compilation of the <i>Coptic Dictionary</i>, photographs, photostats, notebooks, notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, negatives, and casts.

Maps, plans and drawings, original and fair copies created by Crawford and Frank Addison for Crawford, O. G. S. 1951. The Fung kingdom of Sennar: with a geographical account of the Middle Nile Region.

• Sennar roll 1:
  • Addison and Crawford drawings for figs. 1-4;
  • Northern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 17, 24;
  • Southern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 8, 14, 16, 21, 28.
• Sennar roll 2:
  • Drawings for figs. 1-8, and part of figs. 10, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25;
  • Two maps used in the field (1951-1952) for naming sites:
  • — Korgus to Kuddik;
  • — Kuddik to 'Usheir.

Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the 'Heretic Family' (Amarna period kings), part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:

• Typewritten genealogical table (folding) for Amenophis III (Amenhotep III), Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Smenkhkare, and Tutankhamun. Accompanied by 5 typewritten pages of accompanying notes, incorporating the comments of Dr Douglas Derry and Carter
• Typewritten table with dates of accession and death for 18th Dynasty kings, excluding Neferneferuaten and Haremhab (Horemheb). - Accompanied by several pages of manuscript notes on regnal years, relevant bibliography, and miscellaneous notes
• Letter to Carter from H. E. Winlock, dated 20-12-1925, regarding a discussion on Tutankhamun's parentage
• Notes on dated monuments of Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton)
• Letter to Carter from P. E. Newberry, dated 20-12-1931, responding to Carter's enquiry whether Amenophis III (Amenhotep III) had a son named Thutmose, off-print enclosed of Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), pp. 82-85 figs pl. xii (OEB 146401).

Howard Carter's manuscript notes with sketches.

• Transcriptions of royal attributes for Ramesses IV, from his tomb, KV 2, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
• Weight of Shepses, stone, Old Kingdom, from Edfu, bought by Carter in Cairo. [see TopBib v.205A]
• Lion-hunt scarab of Amenophis III, blue glazed steatite, found during excavations in Luxor temple in 1917 and purchased by Carter "for C.". A very similar scarab, or the same one, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 74392.

Howard Carter's photograph, statue base with feet of standing statue, inscription with cartouches on front of base, faience, New Kingdom, found during excavation of Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Howard Carter's photograph, stela of Akhamenerau, Servant of Amun, Chamberlain, son of Paheri, before Osiris and four sons of Horus, probably 26th Dynasty, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 44268, Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Howard Carter's photograph, copper implements, includes a knife or razor, from a toilet set?, labelled "14", Cemeteries, Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes duplicate photograph.