Notes on the history of Dynasty XII.
867 groups of documentation, mainly for ostraca with hieratic inscriptions, as well as a small number of ostraca with demotic or Coptic inscriptions, or ostraca with figures.
Writing boards with hieratic inscriptions are also included.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material includes transcriptions, translations, facsimiles, correspondence, annotated off-prints and various notes.
-Museums, Černý MSS 1.1-522 (523-4, numbers not allocated)
-Collections, Černý MSS 1.525-594
-Not identified, Černý MSS 1.595-625
-Miscellaneous, Černý MSS 1.626-830
Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.
Hittite index. Non-Egyptological.
Zonder titel18 letters from Yoyotte.
Professional and personal matters:
1 letter from Young.
Third Intermediate Period history and Černý's plan to work on texts from Beni Hasan.
1 letter from Yioutanis.
Query concerning the monuments of a Deir el-Medîna workman, Pashedu (possibly the same Pashedu, owner of TT 3 at Thebes, TopBib i2.9-11).
118 glass stereoscopic plate negatives. Most show sites in and around
153 black and white negatives taken in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. Boxes marked with the date '1910'. Most of the Egyptian negatives show Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
Zonder titel1 letter from de Wit, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to de Wit.
Studies and work of de Wit; decision to abandon plans to study in the UK after accepting a position in Musées Royaux in Brussels.
Copies, notes, transcripts, photographs, and correspondence relating to the surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic. Continuing the work of P. E. Kahle, see Kahle MSS 2/13 New Testament Faiyumic Texts.
Includes correspondence from:
1 letter from Wilson, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wilson.
Professional and personal matters:
1 letter from J. Williams to a Mr Leeds.
Epigraphy technique of creating rubbings, and the use of milk as a fixative.
2 letters from E. M. Williams, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to E. M. Williams.
Ostraca and other objects from collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in particular objects from the Theodore M. Davis excavations in the Valley of the Kings.
1 carbon copy of a letter from Williams to J. R. Harris, sent to Černý for reference.
A. A. Williams, Bursar of Queen's College, informing J. R. Harris, who had been recommended by Černý for a UNESCO project in Nubia, that the College supported Harris' participation in the project.
4 albums containing rubbings mainly of objects in the British Museum, and also other museums and private collections including those in the J. Lee collection.
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Journal 1841-1842 and some correspondence.
Zonder titelComplete papers, including notes, drafts and photographs on ancient Egyptian gardens and cultivation, and some on jewellery.
Zonder titel3 letters from Wilkinson.
Professional and personal matters, Wilkinson consulting work by J. Yoyotte; Wilkinson's travel to Egypt, and visiting Oxford.
Two portfolios containing drawings and plans, and three illustrated notebooks.
Zonder titel2 letters from Hannelore Glasser, Wilbour Library, Brooklyn Museum.
A glazed steatite jar, in Brooklyn Museum of Art, 33.680.
2 letters from Wieder, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary).
Plans for a publication of J. R. Harris' research on lexicography of ancient Egyptian minerals, Brill publishers enquiring about the possibility of a subsidy for publishing. The book was eventually published elsewhere, see Harris, J. R., Lexicographical Studies in Ancient Egyptian Minerals (1961) (OEB 8464).
1 letter from Wieck, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Wieck.
Černý reviewing a manuscript by J. Yoyotte for Harper Inc. providing a positive assessment.
6 letters from Westendorf, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Westendorf.
Ostraca in Berlin, publication plans for the Coptic Etymological dictionary, as well as Westendorf's own Coptic dictionary; the offer of the Berlin Academy to publish the Coptic Etymological dictionary.
1 letter from Wessetzky.
A stela of Meretseger in Budapest.
1 letter from Werblowsky, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Werblowsky, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Fiona Strachan (Griffith Institute secretary) to Werblowsky, sent in Černý's absence.
Professional references for S. I. Groll. Černý providing a strong recommendation.
2 letters from Wente.
Late Ramesside Letters and problems of readings of some of the Ashmolean papyri.
Dynasty XXI chronology studies.
Journals, excavation records (Abu Geili, Jebel Moya, Saqadi, Dar el-Mek, etc.), indexes, maps, plans and photographs.
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