Stooped old Jewish man leaning on stick:

• pencil sketch on tracing paper
• loose, adjacent to page 5
• 14.2 x 18.4 cm

1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].

Handwritten text:

• pencil text on paper
• loose
• 18.2 x 22.6 cm
• [text]:

'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]

here it is if he cannot find in history if he cannot

find it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then

became he wants an [?] not to look for it then

here is abundance say there books are only words which

[?] him another thing him [?] [?] being

subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of

[?] the [?] of [?] the [?]

of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all

on oldest copy are not another is any

years old which years [?] [?] [?]

except it [?], and year [?] [?] first

year seeing the middle [?]

but is like a middle [?]

The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry

The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]

are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'

A Hereditary prince, Count, etc., upper part of statue, right side of the face and left shoulder damaged, with the cartouches of Psammetikhos I on shoulders, basalt, temp. Psammetikhos I, formerly in J. Lee and Lord Amherst collections and at Sotheby's in 1921, current location not known (TopBib viii.801-763-510):

• pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 13.5 x 16.8 cm

Reconstructed view of a festival procession in a Theban temple:

• pencil sketch with watercolour (red, yellow, blue, brown and pink) on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.16 [Upper]
• 23.8 x 17.1 cm
• [on mount] '11' (pencil note)

Sketch and copy of the hieroglyphic inscription of an inscribed headrest, provenance not know, formerly in Walter Hawkins collection, current location not known:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 11.1 x 18.1 cm
• [on sketch] 'In the Col of / Walter Hawkins Esq' (pencil note)

Reconstructed view of a Theban temple:

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.16 [Lower]
• 24.2 x 19.4 cm
• [on mount] '11' (pencil note)

View of the First Pylon of the Small Temple of Medinet Habu, looking East towards the Colossi of Memnon, on the West Bank of Thebes, not finished (TopBib ii.462):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
• 44.7 x 29.5 cm

Scene depicting Osorkon I receiving heb-sed from Amun holding scimitar, in register I of pilaster (129) in the Portico of the Bubastides in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.36(129).I):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
• 5.2 x 8.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'DYN XXII / AB III BI 257' (pencil note)

Notes (probably addresses and personal names):

• pencil text on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.14 [Upper]
• 4.4 x 5.4 cm
• [text] '47 Sherif Bey / 9 59 Omar Hagar(?) / J Bonomi / Chabouillet'
• [on mount] '10' (pencil note)

List of places in and near Egypt mentioned in the Bible, with corresponding Hebrew renderings:

• ink text on paper
• mounted
• 9.8 x 18.1 cm
• [on mount] '7' (pencil note)

Squeeze [recto] of a heart scarab (not identified):

• squeeze highlighted with pencil on paper
• loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
• 4.7 x 6.5 cm

Kahedj (White Bull) from a scene in the Second Court of the Great Temple of Medinet Habu, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii.499.(96)-(98).I.3):

• pencil drawing on paper
• mounted
• 21.5 x 20.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Medinet Habu.' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Y / Y / R / W' (pencil notes)
• [on mount] '9' (pencil note)

Rubbing of the hieroglyphic inscription of an inscribed headrest, provenance not know, formerly in Walter Hawkins collection, current location not known:

• rubbing highlighted with pencil on paper
• mounted
• 3.6 x 11.2 cm
• [on mount] '8' (pencil note)

Note (probably address) and diagram (probably street plan):

• pencil text and sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.14 [Upper]
• 4.4 x 4.8 cm
• [text] 'Rue Tronchet / 29' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '5 / 7 / 9 / 11' (pencil notes)
• [on mount] '10' (pencil note)

Squeeze [verso] of a heart scarab (not identified):

• squeeze on paper
• loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
• 4.7 x 6.5 cm

Note on the pyramidion and copy of the cartouches of an obelisk of Tuthmosis III, originally erected in front of the South Face of the Seventh Pylon in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes, and now in Istanbul ("Obelisk of Theodosius") (TopBib ii.171):

• pencil text and sketches on paper
• loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
• 5.2 x 8.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'The W face of Pyramidion of the / obelisk of Constantinople / the god holds the king / by his right hand / and gives him life' (pencil note)

Note on two publications:

• pencil text on paper
• loose, between Bonomi MSS 4.8 and Bonomi MSS 4.13
• 5.2 x 8.2 cm
• [text] 'The Churchman's / companion / Vol 6 / Masters Aldersgate / Scriptural Coincidences / J J Blunt' (pencil note)

Weighing of the heart scene and deceased led by Harsiesi to Osiris, Isis and Nephthys, from the Tomb of Amenemopet, location not known, on the West Bank of Thebes:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.14 [Lower]
• 19.5 x 8.3 cm
• [on mount] 'Theban Tomb Amenemopet (Site unknown)' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] '10' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Amasis and Sethos I:

• pencil sketches
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Middle]
• 6.3 x 9.9 cm
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Rubbing of a hieroglyphic inscription on an object thought to come from Carthage (not identified) (TopBib vii.367A):

• ink rubbing on tracing paper, mounted on paper
• mounted
• 4 x 16.2 cm (11.2 x 17.6 cm with mount)
• [on rubbing mount] 'This is a rubbing / from some Hieroglyphics / found among the ruins / of Carthage. / Given to me by / Doctor Lee of Aylesbury / 1840' (ink note)
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note)

View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
• 5.3 x 5.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Monday sunrise 8 of October' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egyptian name in hieroglyphs of Medinet el-Faiyum (Shedet - Crocodilopolis):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
• 5.3 x 6.1 cm
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Partial plan with measurements (not identified):

• pencil sketch and ink note on paper
• partially mounted
• 12 x 8.7 cm
• [on sketch] '56 / 13 8' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'Kom al (?) Faioum' (ink note)
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti and Akhenaten on a block, probably basalt, originally from Amarna but found at el-Ashmunein, formerly in J. Traill's collection and current location not known:

• pencil sketches and ink notes on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.2 [Top and Middle]
• 6.3 x 9.9 cm
• [on sketches] 'Cairo' (ink note)
• [on sketches] 'Mr Traill's fragment' (ink note)
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)

Note:

• pencil text on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
• 5.4 x 5.5 cm
• [text] '1843 / Cairo to Wady Halfa / and back in 44 days / journey completed by the / end of September / Nº/ 24 Edinboro or Quarterly account of / Eastern Africa' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Cartouches of Amasis:

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Middle and Bottom]
• 5.4 x 6.2 cm
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egyptian sistrum and floral motifs:

• pencil sketches on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Middle]
• 5.4 x 5.5 cm
• [on sketches] 'Job before 28 days' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Note from the voyage to France:

• pencil text on paper
• mounted
• 4.8 x 19.5 cm
• [text] 'Cassot island near / and belonging to / Crete (Candia) in this / island about the begin[nin]g / of the Greek war a ship / belonging to the french / ship conveying arms / which was taken by / pirates and conveyed / to this island who after / taking the contents / permitted the ship to / go. Soon after this / event came to the / island a large french vessel / of war and a smaller / one to demand the / restitution of the / arms which was / given up The captain / of the larger vessel / finding two (?) / slaves one tall the / other short bought / them of the master / The Tall slave is the / sister of a man / in the service of / Husseyn son of H II M A called / Krasheed'
• [on mount] 'This note written on board a Steemer / belonging to Muhammad Ali at Marseilles / at the request of the brother of the person to be / enquired for on my arrival in Paris / The brother a slave that accompanied / the son of M Ali on the voyage from Egypt / to France His office was to wait on the / young prince and to rub his feet' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note)

Note from the voyage to France (second incomplete version):

• pencil text on paper
• mounted
• 4.8 x 6.5 cm
• [text] 'In the beginning of the / Greek war a french vessel / conveying arms was cap / tured by greek pirates and / taken to Cassot, a small / island near Crete (Candia)'
• [on mount] '4' (pencil note, by Bonomi)