Copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).
Fourth copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968).
Third copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968).
Incomplete second copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968) [preface and pp. 1-27].
Typescript, annotated by Gardiner himself.
My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner.
[Ballaghaue, Andreas Isle of Man, 1986. Typed, photocopied and bound by John Gardiner].
Exactly the same as the copy in the Bodleian Art, Archaeology and Ancient World Library (formerly Sackler Library) (318 Gar), except for the missing preface and end page.
Includes Henry John Gardiner, … A very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun Tomb by Margaret Gardiner.
Various.
Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.
Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson4 letters from Gadd, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Gadd
Černý's work on oracles; I. E. S. Edwards' candidature to the British Academy, the position of Oriental Studies in the British Academy.
Original drawings by different artists and made for various publications.
1) GI stereo photos 1-49 (only Egypt-related catalogued): 103 stereoscopic photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, consisting of views of Egypt (49), China (50), Europe (3), and India (1).
2) Sawyer's View-Master Model B, black bakelite (c. 1944-1947), and twelve View-Master reels with seven pictures of Egypt each (© 1950): 3301 'Cairo, Egypt'; 3302 'The Famous Mosques of Cairo, Egypt'; 3303 'The Great Pyramids and Sphinx, Giza, Egypt'; 3304 'The Tombs of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt'; 3305 'Treasures of King Tut-Ankh-Amen, Cairo, Egypt'; 3306 'The River Nile, Assuan to Cairo, Egypt'; 3307 'The Valley of the Nile, Egypt'; 3308 'People of the Nile Valley, Egypt'; 3309 'Sakkara and Memphis, Egypt'; 3310 'Luxor & El Karnak, Egypt'; 3311 'Ancient Thebes, Egypt'; and 3312 'Assuan on the Nile, Egypt'.
3) GI stereo photos 50-99: 50 stereoscopic glass positives accompanied by a handwritten numbered index of images and a Gaumont stereoscopic viewer. The positives were created in Egypt some time between 1900 and 1914. Views include Alexandria, Cairo (street scenes and inside the Egyptian Museum), the pyramids at Giza, the Luxor Temple, the Valley of the Kings, and Aswan.
4) GI stereo photos 100-123 (photos), 123a (viewer): 24 stereoscopic photographs accompanied by a black metal stereoscopic viewer, photographed by J. Dearden Holmes (published by Sunbeam Tours London), consisting of views of ancient and modern Egypt.
Paper squeezes from various sources. The Pontifex squeezes are mounted and are kept in five original portfolios. The Stobart squeezes are not mounted and stored in a package. Other collections of squeezes are not mounted and are stored in large boxes.
Photographs from various sources, including 19th Century Studio Photographs by Abdullah Frères, A. Beato, F. Bonfils, W. Hammerschmidt, P. Sébath and others.
Includes photographs of Egyptologists.
Slides, sheet music, stamps, magazine and calendars.
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Antique and modern postcards from various sources.
Film and media from various sources.
Plaster casts of objects in Edinburgh, Royal Museum of Scotland, 1956.144 (lower part of block statue of Pedehor, Late Period), and 1961.439 (stela of Anakht, New Kingdom); Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (copper mirror of Henuiti (woman), Dyn. XII), inked in by J. Černý; Samos, Archeological Museum of Vathy (inscription from bronze mirror of Antiuzashu, Dyn. XXV-XXVI), cast sent by J. Penrose Barron of Balliol College to J. Černý, kept with copies of the texts made by J. Černý and J. Harris.
Royal Museum of Scotland, EdinburghMaps from various sources.
Items which cannot be incorporated into other GI series. E.g. plates from early Egyptological publications, maps, casts, film and postcards.
Lantern slides from various sources.
3 letters from Fraser.
Classical authors, Diodorus, Egyptological publications, and a reference to B. Grdseloff's research.
Visitor's book of the G. Foucart family, Cairo, for 1925 to 1948.
Foucart, Georges2 letters from Firchow, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Firchow.
Černý's participation in Festschrift Grapow, see Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien (1955) (OEB 158830).
1 letter from Fiandra, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Fiandra.
The practice of sealing and materiality of seals.
3 letters from Fecht, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Fecht.
Professional matters, book exchange, and Černý's contribution for Firchow, O. (ed.), Ägyptologische Studien 29 (1955) (OEB 158830).
Original housing for Faulkner MSS 1 and 2, consisting of one notebook cover, the inside covers are annotated by Faulkner and (probably) G. L. Norsworthy.
Sections of Faulkner, Raymond O. 1962. A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (OEB 9012). Entries for parts of m, nrw and sḥtp. 13 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).
A small group of Faulkner's documentation.
66 letters from Fairman, 16 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Fairman.
Pprofessional and personal matters, book purchases and exchange, books being lent, often to Fairman or Liverpool library.
Particular topics: - Černý asked to obtain books on some of his international travels, e.g. books from the IFAO during his Egypt sojourns.