Identity area
Reference code
Newbold MSS
Nadpis
Douglas Newbold Collection
Date(s)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box (3 folders)
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Formerly in the possession of O. G. S. Crawford.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
O. G. S. Crawford presented the papers in 1947, which were formally accepted by the Griffith Institute Committee in January 1948.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
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).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Language of material
angličtina
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
Not known.
Related units of description
Other Archives:
- Newbold papers in Durham University Library (https://www.dur.ac.uk/library/asc/collection_information/cldload/?collno=390): war service journal, 1915-1918; report on archaeological and exploratory tour in N.W. Kordofan and W. Dongola, 1923; articles; 489 photographs including Libyan Desert, Sinai and Palestine; assorted museum objects; printed material. Online catalogue: http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ark/32150_s15t34sj616.xml
Publication note
Overview of the collection:
- Zaborski, Andrzej, "Sir Douglas Newbold's file: an unexplored source in the newest history of the Beja tribes of the Sudan", in Folia Orientalia 8 (1966), 229-32.
Notes area
Note
- The pages of the two volumes (MSS 1) are numbered individually in one continuing sequence (vol. 1 p. 1-200 and vol. 2 p. 201-540). Pages 176, 192, 326, 340-346, 361, 380, 382, 488-496 do not exist or are missing.