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Henry Solomon Wellcome Collection

  • Wellcome MSS
  • Collection

Journals, excavation records (Abu Geili, Jebel Moya, Saqadi, Dar el-Mek, etc.), indexes, maps, plans and photographs.

Wellcome, (Sir) Henry Solomon

Werblowsky, Raphael Judah Zwi - correspondence

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.

Westendorf, Wolfhart - Černý correspondence

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.

Wieder, F. C. - correspondence

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).

James William Wild Collection

  • Wild MSS
  • Collection
  • 1842-mid 1840s

Two portfolios containing drawings and plans, and three illustrated notebooks.

Wild, James William

Alexandra Helen Wilkinson Collection

  • Wilkinson, A. MSS
  • Collection

Complete papers, including notes, drafts and photographs on ancient Egyptian gardens and cultivation, and some on jewellery.

Wilkinson, Alexandra (Alix) Helen

John Williams Rubbings Collection

  • Williams MSS
  • Collection
  • Between 1830-1840

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.

Williams, John

Williams, A. A. - correspondence

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.

Williams, Evelyn M. - correspondence

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.

Wilson, John A. - correspondence

1 letter from Wilson, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wilson.
Professional and personal matters:

  • Černý's visit to Chicago in 1955
  • inscriptions in the temple of Amada, TopBib vii.73

Robert McLachlan Wilson Collection

  • Wilson MSS
  • Collection
  • Late 1950s-1980s

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:

  • Paul Eric Kahle, 1959
  • Elinor Husselman (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan), 1959-1961
  • Walter Till (Department of Coptic Studies, University of Manchester), 1958-1959
  • Theodore Petersen (St Paul’s College, Washington), 1965
  • R. Kasser (Professor of Coptic Language and Literature, University of Geneva), 1987

Wilson, Robert (Robin) McLachlan

Wit, Constant de - correspondence

1 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.

Wylie Negatives Collection

  • Wylie MSS
  • Collection
  • 1910

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.

Wylie

Yates Negatives Collection

  • Yates MSS
  • Collection
  • 1890s

118 glass stereoscopic plate negatives. Most show sites in and around

  • Cairo, in and around
    • General views of Cairo
    • Street views
    • Tombs of the Caliphs
    • Tombs of the Mamelukes
    • Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan
    • Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq
    • Tomb of Abouseer
    • Mosque of Khat Bey
    • Al-Hakim Mosque
    • Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
    • The Citadel
  • Other sites in Egypt
    • 'Tombs at Thebes'
    • 'Rocks of Abusir', Second Cataract
    • 'Arab village'
  • Outside Egypt, mostly Israel and Palestine:
    • Bethlehem
    • Jacob's Well
    • Mount Tabor

Yates, Miss ?

Yoyotte, Jean - correspondence

18 letters from Yoyotte.
Professional and personal matters:

  • exchange of offprints and publications
  • QV 53 publication by Yoyotte, see Yoyotte, J., 'The Tomb of a Prince Ramesses in the Valley of the Queens (No. 53)', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 44 (1958), 26-30 (OEB 6811)
  • Yoyotte's visits to the UK
  • situation of IFAO after the Suez crisis
  • personal matters

Jaroslav Černý Collection

  • Černý MSS
  • Collection
  • 1918-1988

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

  • Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
  • Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
  • Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
  • Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
  • Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
  • Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
  • Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
  • Series 33 is an etymological card index.

Černý, Jaroslav

Ostraca

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

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