- Peet MSS 1
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Part of Thomas Eric Peet Collection
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Part of Thomas Eric Peet Collection
Index of Late Egyptian Grammar, index for Egyptian Dictionary, and various other indexes. 18 notebooks containing copies of hieratic papyri and ostraca. Small watercolour. 2 boxes of family papers and ephemera, including personal correspondence, certificates, photographs, notes for Peet’s books on Neolithic Italy, a couple of pages from an inaugural lecture, newspaper cuttings, a travel record small notebook, a Latin and Greek classes notebook, a diary, etc.
Peet, Thomas Eric
Pedersen, Johannes - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Pedersen, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Pedersen.
Černý's recommendation of E. Iversen.
Peck, Caroline Nestmann - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Lamont Moore, Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.
Information from the Director to Ms Peck (R. A. Parker's secretary at Brown University) concerning the opening times of the gallery during Černý's 1954-5 winter visit.
Joan Crowfoot Payne Collection
Papers relating to Joan Crowfoot Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1993; reprinted with addenda, 2000), including notes, lists, registers of graves and objects, and annotated maps (photocopies).
Payne, Joan Crowfoot
Richard Bruce Parkinson Collection
1) Unfinished manuscript of 'The Life of Sinuhe: A Reader's Commentary on the Middle Kingdom Version(s)' (September 2020) (print out and relevant Word documents and PDFs). Updated version August 2022 (Word documents and PDFs).
2) Drawings of reconstructions of the Theban tomb-chapel of Nebamun, now in the British Museum in London, including sketches, tracings and a measured perspective acrylic (1997).
3) Correspondence: Letter from Esmé Little (née Peet; niece of T. E. Peet) to Richard B. Parkinson dated 30 January 1989.
4) 35mm Kodachrome slides mainly from Nile cruises with Bales Worldwide and British Museum Traveller (c. 2000–2006) [1 oversize box].
See also H. Parkinson MSS 9-10.
Parkinson, Richard Bruce
1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].
2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).
3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].
4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).
5) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for plaque depicting a scene from the lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1979) - the plaque has been sold in the British Museum shop since the late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued c. 2010).
6) Model, plaster and resin moulds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).
7) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).
8) Album of newspaper cuttings titled "Illustrations", mostly from the Illustrated London News, bound in illustrated binding by Harold Parkinson (c. 1930).
9) Copy of Simplified Hieroglyphs arranged according to Gardiner's Signlist. Drawn in both left and right directions together with samples of cursive hieroglyphs and hieratic signs. Hieratic versions are drawn from Möller Hieratische Paläographie Vol. I (6th to 13th dynasties), of which 'Sinuhe' provides the majority of the examples, by R. B. & H. Parkinson (1988-1989).
10) Original measured perspective drawing of the White Chapel at Karnak, by H. & R. B. Parkinson (c. 1989-1990).
Parkinson, Harold
Parker, Richard A. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
12 letters from Parker, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Parker, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary) to Parker sent in Černý's absence.
Mainly professional matters with a few personal references:
Rosalind Frances Emily Paget Collection
Coloured drawings of hieroglyphs.
Part of Griffith Institute Watercolours and Drawings Collection.
Paget, Rosalind Frances Emily
Omlin, Joseph A. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Omlin.
Request for assistance reading some hieratic captions in papyrus Turin 55001 (see later publication, Omlin, J. A. Der Papyrus 55001 und seine satirisch-erotischen Zeichnungen und Inschriften (1973) (OEB 16729)).
Oliveros, Pilar - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Oliveros.
Photographs of objects in Museo Arqueologico Nacional, Madrid.
Notes on some objects in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney.
O'Connor, David B.
Norton, Patricia - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
4 letters from Norton, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Norton.
Černý correspondence with the book reviews Editor for The Economist newspaper, Černý reviewed: Goneim, M. Zakaria The Buried Pyramid (1956) (OEB 5172).
Nobel Prize Committee - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
2 letters from the Nobel Prize Committee, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to the Nobel Prize Committee.
Nobel Prize Committee asking for Černý's nominations for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964 and 1966. For 1964, Černý proposed Jean-Paul Sartre; in 1966, he declined, citing extensive fieldwork preparations as a priority.
Nims, Charles Francis - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
10 letters from Nims, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Nims.
Professional and personal matters:
Francis Giesler Newton Collection
Article on churches in Sardinia, with additional notes and drawings, and watercolours and drawings of Italian towns, churches and architectural features, as well as view of the ziggurat at Ur. Non-Egyptological.
Newton, Francis Giesler
Two volumes on the history and archaeology of the Beja tribes of the Eastern Sudan (MSS 1) and small group of detached papers / personal file (MSS 2).
Newbold, (Sir) Douglas
Newberry, Percy E. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
10 letters from Newberry, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Newberry.
Personal matters and research:
Newberry, Essie W. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Essie W. Newberry (wife of P. E. Newberry) to Černý, with enclosed obituary of P. E. Newberry.
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Newall.
The orientation of Egyptian temple axis.
Nevinson, J. L. - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
1 letter from Nevinson, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Nevinson.
Černý's participation in the UNESCO mission in Nubia, includes a brief report from the 1956 season.
Neugebauer, Otto - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
6 letters from Neugebauer, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Neugebauer.
2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to R. O. Faulkner, concerning Neugebauer's publication plans and photographs.
Neugebauer's studies, Greek and Coptic horoscopes (publication using Neugebauer material see, Černý, J., Kahle, P. E. and Parker R. A. 'The Old Coptic Horoscope', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 43 (1957), 86-100 (OEB 774)).
Original drawings for The Temple of Deir el Bahari.
Naville, (Henri) Édouard
Two albums containing approximately 460 black and white photographs taken by various members of the IFAO team during excavations at Deir el-Medîna during the 1920s and 30s. Photographs interspersed with some notes and drawings.
Nagel, Georges
Nagel, Georges - correspondence
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
17 letters from Nagel, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Nagel.
4 letters between third parties concerning photographs of papyri for G. Nagel.
Notes on egyptological publications
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Handwritten notes on the following egyptological publications:
-Edgerton, William F. 1933. <i>The Thutmosid succession</i>. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 8. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (OEB 138819).
-Kees, Hermann 1938. Die Opfertanzdarstellung auf einem Siegel des Königs Usaphais. <i>Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen: Philologisch-Historische Klasse, Fachgruppe I, Altertumswissenschaft, Neue Folge</i> 3 (2), 21-30 (OEB 142358).
-Kees, H. 1954. Das Gottesweib Ahmes-Nofretere als Amonspriester. <i>Orientalia</i> 23, 57-63 (OEB 1725).
-Vogliano, A. (ed.) 1938. <i>Mostra delle antichità rinvenute nelle campagne d'Egitto condotte dalla Missione della R. Università di Milano, 1934-37 / organizzata a cura delle podesteria di Milano dalla soprintendenza dei Musei del Castello Sforzesco di Milano</i>. Milano: Bestetti (OEB 145697).
-1906. <i>Catalogue of the collection of Egyptian antiquities, formed in Egypt by R. de Rustafjaell: which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, the 19th of December, 1906</i>. London: Davy (OEB 136636).
-Drioton, Étienne 1933. Essai sur la cryptographie privée de la fin de la XVIIIe dynastie. <i>Revue d'égyptologie</i> 1, 1-50 (OEB 138351).
-Klebs, Luise, 1934. <i>Die Reliefs und Malereien des Neuen Reiches (XVIII.-XX. Dynastie, ca. 1580-1100 v. Chr.): Material zur ägyptischen Kulturgeschichte</i>. AHAW: philos.-hist. Kl. 9. Heidelberg: Winter (OEB 142537).
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Tracings of hieratic texts in a folder numbered NB 5 with a list of texts on the front cover which has been crossed out.Tracings most probably made form plates in publications.
Extracts from and notes on classical authors
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Typed and handwritten extracts from and notes on classical authors.
Includes:
-Typed and handwritten extracts from Claudius Aelianus, 'De Natura Animalium' ('On the Characteristics of Animals'), a collection of seventeen books on natural history. Extracts are headed with book and verse numbers and there are handwritten notes in the margins.
-Extracts from Hellanicus Lesbius, Lucian and Porphyry of Tyre.
-Handwritten index, mainly of plants and animals, to the Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus of Naucratis
-Handwritten index to 'Bibliotheca Historica' by Diodorus Siculus
-Typed notes on Diodorus Siculus
-Handwritten index to work by Plutarch
-Handwritten index to Geographica by Strabo
-Typed notes on Clement of Alexandria
-Extracts from works by Lucian
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Handwritten copies and translations of papyri. Notes by Diana Magee suggest that these are second hand copies or copies of copies done by somebody else.
Includes:
-Handwritten copy of the text and translation of 'The Destruction of Mankind' (PEN/G.II/E.G.)
-Handwritten translation of Papyrus Berlin 9784
-Handwritten copy of British Museum Medical Papyrus mentioning name of Khufu and tracing (PEN/G.II/E.F.)
-Handwritten copy of the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant
-Handwritten notes and extracts including chronology from 'Obeliscus pamphilius' by Athanasius Kircher (1650).
-Extract in Coptic titled 'Sections of Acts of Apostles missing in Hosner supplied by the MS of Chester Beatty'.