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Copies of Fayyumic Texts. Published and unpublished including Morgan XXIV.

Includes letter from Ronald J. Williams, 2 March 1955.

Translation of selected Non-lit Coptic Texts. (a) Legal documents (b) Letters.

Binder labelled:
Jême: Koptisch Rechtsurkunden – Crum und Steindorf I Leipzig 1912 Übersetzung, Nachkollationierung weiter Texte Anmerkungen 1. Text 1-14 2. 22-75.

Card indexes, photographs, notebooks, notes, copies, correspondence, typescripts, and negatives.

4 letters from Junker, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Junker.

• reading a mixed hieratic/hieroglyphic inscription in the tomb of Sekhemka at Gîza
• book exchange, especially Junker's Gîza expedition publications sent in exchange for publications and off-prints from Černý

1 letter from Jouguet, 1 letter from Jouguet family member (not identified).
A note from Jouguet about the understanding of some titles during the Graeco-Roman period; a Jouguet family member thanking Černý for his letter of condolence in response to Jouguet's death.

2 letters from Jones.
Invitation to Černý to meetings in Oxford after he had accepted the Egyptology Chair, social contacts.

2 letters from Jonckheere.
Jonckheere's extensive studies in Egyptian medicine.

313 black-and-white glass negatives made during the excavation of Antinoë (modern el-Sheikh Ibâda, opposite el-Ashmûnein, in Middle Egypt) in 1913-14 by John de Monins Johnson for the Graeco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Society. The negatives are not accompanied by any supporting written records or descriptions of the photographed objects.

9 letters from Jelínková.
Jelínková's studies and plans for her dissertation; recommendation for her stay in Brussels, personal matters.

1. Notebook containing notes on work in Theban tombs, financed by Sir Robert Mond, 1909-1910.
2. Printout of the booklet "Charles Gordon Jelf. Born June 8, 1886. Killed in Action October 13, 1915" (printed for private circulation, 1915); from Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford copy [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph013761443&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_OX&tab=local&lang=en_US].

13 letters from J. M. A. Janssen, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to J. M. A. Janssen.
Annual Egyptological Bibliography, and with the research of Pater Janssen, e.g. on the door-jambs in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 48832 (TopBib i2.777), and attestations of the ideal age of 110 years in Egyptian sources, including an Abusir graffito in the mastaba of Ptahshepses (TopBib iii2.342).

13 letters from J. J. Janssen, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to J. J. Janssen.
Janssen's research, and co-operation with Černý:

• plans for his book on commodity prices - Janssen, J. J., Commodity Prices from the Ramessid Period. An Economic Study of the Village of Necropolis Workmen at Thebes (1975) (OEB 9846)
• Janssen's publication of BM EA 588 (TopBib i2.721), published later as Janssen, J. J., 'An unusual donation stela', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 49 (1963), 64-70 (OEB 10084)
• discussion of Endesfelder, E., 'Über die Arbeiter der thebanischen Nekropole im Neuen Reich', in Günther, R. and Schrot, G. (eds), Sozialökonomische Verhältnisse im Alten Orient und im klassischen Altertum (1961), 88-93 (OEB 8360)
• Janssen's work on p. Leiden I, 350
• dating of ostraca, and changes in the Deir el-Medîna economy
• Černý mediating access to the Museo Egizio in Turin for Janssen, via Ernesto Scamuzzi
• exchange of off-prints and other publications

Transcribed hieratic documents, photographs, annotated photocopies, notes on Deir el-Medina, unpublished material, etc.

2 letters from Janda, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Janda.
Publication plan for a book on Egyptian art by Černý, to be published in Prague (ultimately abandoned).

30 letters from T. G. H. James, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to T. G. H. James.
4 letters from T. G. H. James to Marie Černý.
Correspondence concerned with their respective research topics:

• proofs and index of the volumes, Gardiner, A. H., Peet, T. E. and Černý, J., The Inscriptions of Sinai, Part 1 (1952) (OEB 3261), and Černý, J., The Inscriptions of Sinai from Manuscripts of Alan H. Gardiner and T. Eric Peet, Part 2 (1955) (OEB 4432)
• T. G. H. James as Editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Černý as author and reviewer
• Černý mediating photography from the British Museum for researchers elsewhere
• reading of hieratic texts, including dockets from KV 62, Tutankhamun
  T. G. H. James letters to Marie Černý concerned with the preparation and off-prints for the Černý obituaries.

1 letter from F. W. James, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to F. W. James.
Planned publication of F. W. James on the site of Beth Shan (Beisan, TopBib vii.376).

Manuscript of Jacoby's original text for the first draft of his chapter on the architecture, 'The Five Graves at Sendschirli (Zincirli)', excavated in 1902, eventually published in Ausgrabungen in Sendschirli, iv (Berlin, 1911). Non-Egyptological.

Material (mostly photographic) on the Luristan bronzes. It appears to relate to a planned joint publication with Frank Savery, paid by the Griffith Institute. The material was eventually published by Roger Moorey. Non-Egyptological.

Related documentation (by Brenda Moon):

1. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mrs Patricia Martin (19 March 1982)
2. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mrs Patricia Martin (12 April 1982)
3. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mr James Martin and Mrs Patricia Martin (27 May 1998)
4. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mr James Martin and Mrs Patricia Martin (20 May 1999)
5. Letter from Brenda Moon to Mr James Martin and Mrs Patricia Martin (9 December 2006)
6. "Amelia Edwards and Egypt. Paper read to the second Conference on Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, Oxford, 11 July 1997", by Brenda Moon (printed copy)
7. "Amelia Edwards, Jenny Lane and Egypt", by Brenda Moon (printed copy)

Certificate:

1. Marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879) [photocopy of a certified copy requested by Brenda Moon in 1999]

Three framed portraits, two of which are on porcelain:

1. Jane Collins, née Jane Lane (no date, probably c. 1876-1885)
2. George Collins (as c. 1870, although also c. 1876-1885 since 1 and 2 are a set) [first husband]
3. George Lane (1887) [father]