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Add MS 89298
- Record Id:
- 032-003392699
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003392699
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100054224362.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 89298
- Title:
- Sir Harold Idris Bell: Additional papers relating to the acquisition of papyri by the British Museum, 1920-1935
- Scope & Content:
-
Letters received by Bell from members of the papyrus purchasing syndicate, British Museum colleagues, and antiquities dealers, with some copies of Bell's outgoing letters; plus reports on planned and actual purchases, and inventory and distribution lists of papyrus collections and purchases.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003392699", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 89298: Sir Harold Idris Bell: Additional papers relating to the acquisition of papyri by the British Museum, 1920-1935" },{ "id" : "036-003392702", "parent" : "032-003392699", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1: Correspondence and reports regarding the acquisition of papyri" },{ "id" : "040-003393442", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/1: Papers relating to the Papyrus Syndicate sent by Mrs Hunt, 6 June 1935 (contains list of joint purchase by Kelsey & Grenfell…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393443", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/2: Index to letters within the collection, 1920-1931" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393444", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/3: Letters received from William Linn Westermann (1922-1930)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393521", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/4: Letters received from Professor Dr Wilhelm Schubart (1928-1930), plus a few letters from Henry A Sanders (1927), A H Smith and…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394090", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/5: Letters and invoices received from Enoch Peterson, Mikhail Rostovtzeff, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, and Count de Prorok…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394096", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/6: Letters received from Henry Bartlett Van Hoesen (1921-1922, 1924-1928), plus three letters received from Girolamo Vitelli (1929)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394147", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/7: Letters received from E A Wallis Budge (1921), Joseph Bidez (1922-1923), David L Askren (1923-1927) and Arthur Edward Romilly Boak…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394257", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/8: Letters received from Campbell Bonner (1927-1931) and William Warner Bishop (1931)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394473", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/9: Letters received from Samson Eitrem (1923-1930), Robert Garrett (1930), James Rendel Harris (1920-1929), Pierre Jouguet (1929),…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394484", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/10: Letters received from Francis Willey Kelsey (1920-1927)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394485", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/11: Letters received from Frederic George Kenyon (1920-1923), Joan Kingsford (1930) and Casper J Kraemer Jr (1927)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394486", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/12: Letters received from Victor Martin (1921-1922), plus correspondence between Bell and Maurice Nahman (1923-1931)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394559", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/13: Letters regarding papyrus fragments purchased by David Askren and Robert Garrett in 1929 and distributed in 1949" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003394560", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/14: Draft text of the specimen tariff of papyrus prices, plus accompanying letter" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003397995", "parent" : "036-003392702", "text" : "Add MS 89298/1/15: Correspondence regarding the acquisition of papyri (including Egerton Papyrus 2) between Bell and Campbell Bonner, Samson Eitrem,…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "036-003392703", "parent" : "032-003392699", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2: Inventories of Papyri" },{ "id" : "040-003392708", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/1: Inventories of Papryi (1920)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392716", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/2: Inventories of Papyri (1921)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392743", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/3: Inventories of Papyri (1922)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392749", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/4: Inventories of Papyri (1923)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392753", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/5: Inventories of Papyri (1924)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392912", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/6: Inventories of Papyri (1925)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392913", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/7: Accounts of Papyri (1926)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392914", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/8: Inventories of Papyri (1926-1927)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003392915", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/9: Report on Papyri (1927-1928)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393129", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/10: Papyri List (1928)" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393130", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/11: Report on Papyri bought by Maurice Nahman 17 July 1930" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393131", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/12: Work-in-progress inventories and distribution lists" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-003393132", "parent" : "036-003392703", "text" : "Add MS 89298/2/13: Duplicate lists and reports, various years" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003392699
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 89298/1 : Correspondence and reports regarding the acquisition of papyri
Add MS 89298/2 : Inventories of Papyri
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- 032-003392699
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 89298
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
-
28 files
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
French
German
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1920
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 1920-1949
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Available for research unless otherwise stated
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- User Conditions:
- Custodial History:
- Six volumes containing lists and transcriptions of papyri were transferred to the Ancient and Mediaeval Departmental Library in January 2018. Please contact the relevant curator for further details.
- Former Internal References:
- Deposit 9803
- Source of Acquisition:
- This material was discovered in storage at the British Museum and transferred to the Department of Manuscripts on 4 November 1998.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bell, Harold Idris, papyrologist and scholar of Welsh literature, 1879-1967
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