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Text in Mahas Nubian by Bedr Effendi of Derr, with corrections. Given to Griffith by Blackman.

1. List of Mahas Nubian geographical words and place names in and around Serra East. List of family names and two personal names; the second, Daud Kubara at Halfa, said to have been writing a history of Nubia. Mahas Nubian phrases.
2. Words in Old Nubian and in modern Mahas, Kenzi and Dongolese Nubian.

Letters exchanged between F. G. Kenyon and Griffith in December 1907 and June 1908 about the publication of the Rustafjaell Old Nubian MSS in the British Museum.

Letter from E. W. Watson dated 8 April 1909 on the Arabic Pseudo-Nicene Canons.

Postcard from A. Cowley dated 30 June 1909 on the publication of Budge's Old Nubian MS. and on the New Testament in Kenzi Nubian in Le Monde Oriental [3 (1909), p. 76-88, p. 237-246].

Copy of a letter from Griffith to Schäfer dated 20 June 1913 accompanying the MS for publication as Griffith, F. Ll., The Nubian texts of the Christian period (1913) (OEB 237422).

Letter from George W. Murray dated 22 May [1909] with notes and queries on words and proper names in Kenzi, Mahas and Old Nubian. Corrections to Griffith MSS 14.5.2 above. Mention of Murray's list of Nubian personal names, cf. Griffith MSS 14.5.4 below.

Letter from W. E. Crum dated 13 May 1908 comparing the handwriting of the smaller Berlin Nubian MS with the British Museum Or. MS. 6204 (British Museum Catalogue, pl. 5).

Letter from W. E. Crum undated mentioning the provenance of Rustafjaell's MS. - a stone-lined hole in the Western desert.

Letter from W. E. Crum dated 5 July 1908 referring to literature on Nubian names.

Letter from W. E. Crum dated 28 February 1912 on the original provenance of the Rustafjaell MSS: MS. 1 from [serrah (Coptic transcription)], being dedicated to a church at Edfu, the scribe having been from Esna; MSS. 2 and following taken to Nubia and joined to MS. 1.

Letter from W. E. Crum dated 9 November 1927 on Latin text on mediaeval Nubia. Taken from Renaudot [cf. Monneret de Villard, Storia délia Nubia cristiana (1938), p. 98, note 3 et seq.].

• Griffith MSS 14.36: Arabic text on Nubian History, later published by W. E. Crum in Studies Presented to F. Ll.Griffith (1932), p. 137-148: "A Nubian Prince in an Egyptian Monastery".
• Griffith MSS 14.35: Letter from W. E. Crum dated 26 December 1927 enclosing an abstract.
• Griffith MSS 14.37: Letter from W. E. Crum dated 10 February 1926 with comments on the stories.
  -Griffith MSS 14.38: MS Marsh 287 - names and dates in Crum's hand. Note by Griffith on the Nubian Prince stories.

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 29 June 1909. Remarks on the /č/ sound in Nubian and on the term "Fadija" as the name of a dialect with the Mahas Nubian language.

Enclosures with letter Griffith MSS 14.4:

1. "Feyadika" [Mahas] Nubian love song: "Alla Dessi Barama". Translation and notes.

2. Arabic story in Kenzi Nubian: "The Abyssinian Slave". Translation and notes.

3. Three songs in Kenzi Nubian. Translations:

   • A father thinking of his dead daughter.
   • Insulting song by one woman to another.
   • A woman preparing food for her husband's return, has it stolen.

4. List of some 18 words in Kenzi and Mahas Nubian. Glosses. List of Nubian proper names: 37 for men and 11 for women.

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 19 July [1909]. Comments on Nubian songs, especially Griffith MSS 14.5.1. Comments on an element in one of the proper names in Griffith MSS 14.5.4.

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 2 September 1909. Comments on Griffith's translation of the Old Nubian text on St. Menas [British Museum Or. MS. 6805], especially on the location of Philoxenite. Comments on an element in a place name.

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 7 May 1910. Comments on certain elements in Nubian place names. Remarks on the proportion of Arabic words in modern Nubian.

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 8 June 1910. Comparison of a Kenzi Nubian particle with an Old Nubian one.

Dendera - Sketch map of the ancient cemetery excavated by W. M. F. Petrie and later Ch. H. Rosher. Drawn by C.H.Rosher from surveys by himself and Petrie (1898).

Stories of the High Priests of Memphis - Story of Setna. Photographs, letter with notes from W. Spiegelberg dated 24 February 1903, and notes by F. Ll. Griffith.

Photographs.

Photographs.