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• Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
• Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
• Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
• Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
• Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
• First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.

Tracing (on both recto and verso) of one register of child and female deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications possibly in preparation for the engraved plate 46A in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil and ink tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.21 (upper)
• 23 x 12 cm
• [on mount] encircled '29' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch of a view inspired by the Osiride Pillars in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel in Nubia (TopBib vii.101); the view includes a number of alterations/additions, such as the nemes-headdress of the pillar figures:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.21 (lower)
• 23.5 x 29.6 cm
• [on mount] 'Abu Simbel' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] encircled '29' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of two designs of statues of ibis-headed Thoth:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.20 (upper)
• 18.3 x 17 cm
• [on mount] encircled '28' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing after figure 1, plate XXXV in Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell'Eggito e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Pisa: Nicoló Capurro, 1832 (OEB 148870), of a fragment of scene 4 with Queen Meritamun consecrating boxes of coloured cloth to Osiris and Hathor as Western goddess (here, just Queen), from the Hall of the Tomb of Queen Meritamun (QV 68) in the Valley of the Queens, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.766(4)):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.20 (lower)
• 23.2 x 11.9 cm
• [on sketch] 'M. R. No. 35. Fig. 1.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] encircled '28' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a register with figures of falcon-headed Horus and falcon; preliminary sketch inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plate 37 in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.19 (upper)
• 22.9 x 12.6 cm
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '27' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing after figure 23, plate XIX in Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell'Eggito e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Pisa: Nicoló Capurro, 1832 (OEB 148870), of princess Neferure in a scene from Room X preceding the Sanctuary in the Great Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.365-366(132).2):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.19 (lower)
• 17.9 x 28.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'green / Pale yellow / Red / Blue / Red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Blue / Green - Gold - Blue - white - Green / Green / Blue / Gold / Green / Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Greenish head-disk(?) with / blue, Red & green band.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'gold, blue, green / & Red (?) on(?) / pale yellow' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red (?)s' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Blue & Red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red & green' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'gold' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'M. R. No. 19 - Fig. 23' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '27' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of designs of designs of capital fragments with vegetal decoration:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.18 (upper)
• 11.6 x 10.5 cm
• [on mount] encircled '26' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing after figure 2, plate XXXII in Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Pisa: Nicoló Capurro, 1832 (OEB 148870), of one of the faces of the North Obelisk of Hatshepsut, from the Colonnade of Thutmosis I, in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.81); specifically scene from the pyramidion (Hatshepsut kneeling in front of Amun) and top (1st) and bottom (8th) scenes from the upper part of the shaft (Hatshepsut and Amun):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.18 (lower)
• 14.9 x 47.1 cm
• [on sketch] 'M. R. No. XXXII. Fig. 2.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] encircled '26' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] 'Karnak' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing (on verso) of a design of a djed-pillar after plate 16 in Champollion le Jeune, J. F., Panthéon égyptien: collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments. Figures d'après les dessins de L. J. J. Dubois. Paris: Firmin Didot, 1823 (OEB 136967), in preparation for the engraved plate 25 (part 1) in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.16 (upper) and Bonomi MSS 9.16 (lower left)
• 12.6 x 15.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'y / R - y - gr / R / y / Bk / y / R / w / R - R' (pencil notes)
• [on sketch] 'with (?) / and Frog gods' (pencil note)
• [on mount] encircled '24' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch of a pharaoh's head, inspired by unidentified monument:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper, partially glued to paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.16 (upper) and Bonomi MSS 9.16 (lower right)
• 8.1 x 7.5 cm (9.4 x 10.7 cm with mount)
• [on mount] encircled '24' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing after figure 1, plate XXXV in Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Pisa: Nicoló Capurro, 1832 (OEB 148870), of a fragment of scene 4 with Queen Meritamun in front of Osiris and Hathor as Western goddess, both seated (here, just Osiris and Hathor), from the Hall of the Tomb of Queen Meritamun (QV 68) in the Valley of the Queens, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.766(4)):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.16 (lower right) and Bonomi MSS 9.16 (lower left)
• 25.2 x 24.9 cm
• [on mount] encircled '24' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing (on recto, but mounted reversed) after Roberts, David, Egypt and Nubia, from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts. London: F. G. Moon, 1849 (OEB 148677), vol. II, 7th plate; view of the standard-bearer colossus of Ramesses II from the Pylon before the Inner Court of the Temple of Amun and Re-Harakhti at El Sebua in Nubia (TopBib vii.57(28)):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted
• 21.4 x 38.3 cm
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '25' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Graffiti of Oeil [Eyes] in H, I, K B, V, Z, and U:

Eyes in H: Court of Pylon VII (CR7: KIU 3312) [H3, H5, H7];

• H3: East massif (môle) of Pylon VII (KIU 2026), south face;
• H5: West massif (môle) of Pylon VII (KIU 2026), south face, first flagstaff;
• H7: West massif (môle) of Pylon VII (KIU 2026), south face, second flagstaff.

Eyes in I: Court of Pylon VII (CR7: KIU 3312) [I6];

• I6: West wall of the court, east face, north part.

Eyes in R: Exterior face (east) of the southern processional way [R16];

• R16: South face of the edifice of Amenhotep II (not included in the court of Pylon X).

Eyes in B: The first (great) court, Temple of Ramesses III (KIU 4324) and the barque shrine of Seti II (KIU 4645) [B1-2];

• B1-2: North wall, south face, west (1) and east (2) parts.

Eyes in V: Contratemple (Eastern temple of Thutmose III) [V1]:

• V1: Pillars of Osiris on the façade.

Eyes in Z: Wall (south) of the court of the east temple (KIU 4666) [Z1]:

• Z1: South wall of the court of the east temple, south face.

Eyes in U: Exterior face (north) of the temple, east part and north tier of the east face [U4];

• U4: East portion and east face of the wall of Thutmose III, decorated by Ramesses II.

Graffiti of Cynocephale [Jackal-headed people] in Q, H, I, R, FF, BB, T, B, C, N, and U:

Jackal heads in Q: West (exterior) face of the southern processional way [Q4];

• Q4: West massif, north face of Pylon VII (KIU 2026).

Jackal heads in H: Court of Pylon VII (CR7: KIU 3312) [H4];

• H4: Gate in the south-west corner or the court, interior faces.

Jackal heads in I: Court of Pylon VII (CR7: KIU 3312) [I6];

• I6: West wall of the court, east face, north part.

Jackal heads in R: Exterior face (east) of the southern processional way [R2-3, R6, R14, R16-17];

• R2: East massif (môle) of Pylon VII, north face (not included in the court of Pylon VII);
• R3: East massif (môle) of Pylon VII, east face;
• R6: North face of the Barque shrine (reposoir) of Thutmose III;
• R14: East face of the edifice of Amenhotep II, north part;
• R16: South face of the edifice of Amenhotep II (not included in the court of Pylon X);
• R17: East wall of the court of Pylon X, between the edifice of Amenhotep II and Pylon X, east face, north part.

Jackal heads in FF: Exterior walls of the Temple of Khonsu (KIU 4876) [FF4];

• FF4: West wall.

Jackal heads in BB: Temple of Ptah [BB8];

• BB8: South façade of the temple.

Jackal heads in T: Exterior face (north) of the first (great) court and Hypostyle Hall (KIU 859) [T1, T6];

• T1: Bubastite wall (north), north face, west part;
• T6: Northern massif, eastern face of Pylon III.

Jackal heads in B: The first (great) court, Temple of Ramesses III (KIU 4324) and the barque shrine of Seti II (KIU 4645) [B23];

• B23: 9th western column of the southern portico.

Jackal heads in C: XXXX [C101];

• C101: Northern staircase.

Jackal heads in N: Court of Pylon VI (KIU 3433) and related areas [N1];

• N1: South rooms of Hatshepsut, south face.

Jackal heads in U: Exterior face (north) of the temple, east part and north tier of the east face [U4];

• U4: East portion and east face of the wall of Thutmose III, decorated by Ramesses II.

Graffiti of Insectes [Insects] in Q, R, A, and B:

Insects in Q: West (exterior) face of the southern processional way [Q4];

• Q4: West massif, north face of Pylon VII (KIU 2026).

Insects in R: Exterior face (east) of the southern processional way [R5, R10];

• R5: East wall of the court of Pylon VIII, east face, between the north corner and Barque shrine (reposoir) of Thutmose III;
• R10: East massif (môle) of Pylon VIII, east face.

Insects in A: In front of Pylon I [A2-3];

• A2-3: Quay, east (2) and north (3) faces.

Insects in B: The first (great) court, Temple of Ramesses III (KIU 4324) and the barque shrine of Seti II (KIU 4645) [B22];

• B22: 8th western column of the southern portico.

Graffiti of Fleurs [Flowers] in F, H, I, R, and U:

Flowers in F: Court of Pylon X [F1];

• F1: East massif, north face of Pylon X.

Flowers in H: Court of Pylon VII (CR7: KIU 3312) [H3, H8];

• H3: East massif (môle) of Pylon VII (KIU 2026), south face;
• H8: West massif (môle) of Pylon VII (KIU 2026), south face, between second flagstaff and south-west corner.

Flowers in I: Court of Pylon VII (CR7: KIU 3312) [I4];

• I4: West massif (môle) of Pylon VII, north face (included in the court).

Flowers in R: Exterior face (east) of the southern processional way [R15-17];

• R15: East face of the edifice of Amenhotep II, central part;
• R16: South face of the edifice of Amenhotep II (not included in the court of Pylon X);
• R17: East wall of the court of Pylon X, between the edifice of Amenhotep II and Pylon X, east face, north part.

Flowers in U: Exterior face (north) of the temple, east part and north tier of the east face [U4];

• U4: East portion and east face of the wall of Thutmose III, decorated by Ramesses II.

Two winged female figures (probably Muses) and young man presenting offerings; probably memorial to Michael Faraday:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper, glued on card
• loose
• 20.8 x 24.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'SPLENDET / ÆTERNUMQUE / SPLENDEBIT' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'FARADAY' (pencil note)

Tracing after figure 18, plate XIX in Rosellini, Ippolito, I monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Pisa: Nicoló Capurro, 1832 (OEB 148870), of a fragment of scene 6, with Queen Meritamun before Thoth (here, just Queen), from the Hall of the Tomb of Queen Meritamun (QV 68) in the Valley of the Queens, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.766(6)):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted reversed, together with Bonomi MSS 9.15 (lower)
• 19.9 x 27.4 cm
• [on sketch] '9.16t' (pencil note, recent annotation)
• [on sketch] 'Green' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'White' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The rest / blue / also the border' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Gold' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Gold' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Gold - Blue' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Ribbons red' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Red stripped' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '23' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketches and tracings (on both recto and verso) of a group of images of Bes, Ptah-Patek, and a sarcophagus lid; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications, including a design of Bes holding flower bouquets from the inner face of the colonnade from the Birth House at Dendera [TopBib vi.104] (middle), together with designs of Ptah-Patek and Bes figures (left) and a sarcophagus lid (right), in preparation for the engraved plate 24A in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil and ink sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.15 (upper)
• 23.2 x 11.9 cm
• [on sketch] '7.5' (ink note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '23' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketches and tracings (on both recto and verso) of a group of designs, including menorahs, camel caravans, tents, and other related elements, together with a Demotic inscription:

• pencil sketches/tracings on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper right), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 25.6 x 9.6 cm
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of two registers of deities; composition inspired by depictions from different monuments and publications in preparation for the engraved plates in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841); from top to bottom, right to left: Montu (plate 49, part 2), Tefnut (plate 51), Maat (plate 49), Ptah-Patek (not included), Satet (plate 21, part 2), Heqet (plate 25, part 4), Nut (plate 32), Geb (plate 31, part 1), Sobek (plate 50), Ra, (plate 29), Neith (plate 28), and Ptah (plate 23):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 32.1 x 17.9 cm
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a design of an entrance to a building topped by a large pharaoh's head:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper right), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 7.9 x 10.1 cm
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of a design of unidentified plant:

• ink tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper left), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (upper right), Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.14 (lower right)
• 4.6 x 3.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'd. - 234' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '22' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Preliminary printing (only red) of part of three registers of tomb decoration, including offering bearers and female mourners; composition inspired by depictions from various Theban tombs for the engraved plate 83 titled "Great Funeral Procession of a Royal Scribe at Thebes" in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• ink (red, brown, and remains of blue) on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (upper), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower middle)
• 6.8 x 11.0 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Tracing of Horus as king with double crown (on recto) and god Amun (on recto); inspired by unidentified monuments or publications in preparation for the engraved plates 37A (Horus) and 22 (Amun) in Wilkinson's Supplement (1841):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (upper), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower right)
• 8.6 x 9.0 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Pillar-base with six figures in high relief, Hathor between Monthu and Tuthmosis III, usurped from Sesostris I(?), granite, found by Belzoni in a small temple at north-east corner of enclosure wall at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes, now in London, British Museum, EA12 [TopBib ii2.296]:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• originally mounted (now loose), together with Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower left), Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower middle), and Bonomi MSS 9.13 (lower right)
• 27.1 x 30.5 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '21' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch (on both recto and verso) of a view inspired by the Osiride Pillars in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel in Nubia (TopBib vii.101); the view includes a number of alterations/additions, such as the nemes-headdress of the pillar figures and silhouettes of people:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.11 (lower)
• 18.6 x 29.5 cm
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '19' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] 'Abu Simbel?' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Wooden niche-stela of Merib, Royal acquaintance and son Nejemib, Steward, end of Dynasty III or early Dynasty IV, from Saqqara, now in Paris, Musée du Louvre, N.3389 (TopBib iii2.746):

• pencil sketch on white tracing paper
• mounted
• 25.7 x 41.7 cm
• [on sketch] 'Fragment in just wood in the Col-of / M Seissons drawn one fourth of / the size of the original / It is in basso relievo and perfectly in / the style of the sculptures of the tombs of / Gezeh' (pencil note)
• [on mount] encircled '20' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch of a stand with four depictions of the king supporting the sky inspired after a granite stand or altar of Taharqa, with Nile-gods binding sma-symbol on front and back and four figures of Taharqa holding up the sky on sides in the Outer Vestibule of the Great Temple of Amun at Gebel Barkal, between the Third and Fourth Cataracts in Sudan (TopBib vii.220(43)); probably after Abth. V. Bl. 13 in Lepsius, C. R., Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien: nach den Zeichnungen der von Seiner Majestät dem Koenige von Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm IV., nach diesen Ländern gesendeten und in den Jahren 1842-1845 ausgeführten wissenschaftlichen Expedition, 12 vols. Berlin: Nicolai, [1849-1859] (OEB 143580):

• pencil and red pencil sketch on white tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.11 (upper)
• 20.1 x 12.6 cm
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note, upside down)
• [on mount] encircled '19' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Sketch (on both recto and verso) of a design with a Nile-god carrying offering, inspired by unidentified monument:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 9.10 (upper) Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower left), and Bonomi MSS 9.10 (lower middle)
• 8.9 x 11.4 cm
• [on mount] encircled '178' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)