Collectie Newbold MSS - Douglas Newbold Collection

1 box (3 folders)

Formerly in the possession of O. G. S. Crawford.

O. G. S. Crawford presented the papers in 1947, which were formally accepted by the Griffith Institute Committee in January 1948.

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).

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

• Engels

These are originals.

Not known.

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

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.

• 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.