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CA Charles Robert Cecil Augustine Allberry (1911-43), Egyptologist

Charles Allberry was born in Sydenham, 9 November 1911. He was educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford, and Christ's College, Cambridge, BA, 1933. He was elected fellow of Christ's College, 1935, and first Lady Budge Fellow, 1936-9. He edited and published Manichaean manuscripts in the Chester Beatty collection and in the Berlin Academy, 1938-9. He became editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 1939. He worked at Bletchley Park and then joined the Royal Air Force. He married Patricia Katherine Grace Sandbach, 1942. He was killed in action near Nedeweert, Holland, 3 April 1943.

Correspondence and papers, 1935-40

The collection mainly comprises a manuscript, articles, notes, Coptic dictionary slips and correspondence

3 boxes and 11 card index drawers

index of people, places and institutions

CA/1 Manuscript of A Manichaean Psalm-Book: Part II (1938)
undated [1937-8]
1 bundle, ms and typescript
English and Coptic

CA/2 Index of Greek and Coptic words
16 Dec 1936
1 vol
Possibly a draft index to A Manichaean Psalm-Book: Part II (1938)
Greek and Coptic

CA/3 Draft article on three points in Coptic lexicography
1939
3 sheets, typescript
Published as 'Three points in Coptic lexicography', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 25 (1939)

CA/4 Copy article on Manichaeism
undated [1939]
27 sheets, typescript
Incomplete

CA/5 Draft article on the Coptic verb 'to seek'
1940
5 sheets, typescript
Published as a brief communication in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 26 (1940)
With a note from Alec Dakin, undated

CA/6 Draft article on Greek and Latin words in the Manichaean Psalm-Book
undated
7 sheets, typescript

CA/7 Draft article on death and rebirth in Manichaeism
undated
23 sheets, typescript

CA/8 Draft review of Walter Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (1929-39)
undated [1939]
9 sheets, typescript

CA/9 Draft lecture on Manichaean texts
undated
21 sheets

CA/10 Preliminary notes for A Manichaean Psalm-Book: Part II (1938)
undated
2 vols
Mainly blank
Coptic

CA/11 Notes on P. A. de Lagarde, Titi Bostreni Contra Manichaeos Libri Quatuor Syriace (1859)
undated
7 vols
English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek

CA/12 Notes on books and articles about Manichaeism
undated
1 vol
Mainly blank
English, German and Coptic

CA/13 Index to books and articles
undated
1 bundle of index cards

CA/14 Index to the Kephalaia
undated
1 bundle of index cards
Coptic

CA/15 Coptic dictionary slips
undated
11 card index drawers
Coptic

CA/16 Unidentified Syriac and Coptic concordance
Oct-Dec 1938
1 vol
Syriac and Coptic

CA/17 Syriac glossary
undated
1 vol
English, Syriac, Greek and Latin

CA/18 Coptic glossary
undated
1 vol
English, German, Coptic and Latin

CA/19 Undergraduate notes on Latin, Greek and Coptic
undated
1 folder
English, Latin, Greek and Coptic

CA/20 Letters of congratulation on the publication of A Manichaean Psalm-Book: Part II (1938) and of an article on the same subject
1939
13 items, ms and typescript
English, French and German

CA/21 Letters about the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
1939-40
1 folder, ms and typescript
With a list of out-letters, Oct 1939-Apr 1940, pasted on the inside cover

CA/22 Letter from Alan Coates Bouquet
1 Dec 1937
1 item, typescript

CA/23 Letter to Walter Crum
22 Dec 1937
1 item, ms and typescript
With papers about a transcription of a papyrus in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Trinity College Papyrus, Coptic 17)
English and Coptic

CA/24 Correspondence with Alan Gardiner
1939-40
30 items, ms and typescript
Mainly about the editorship of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

CA/25 Letter from Hermann Grapow
24 Jul 1937
1 item
German

CA/26 Letters from Battiscombe Gunn
1939-40
11 items, ms and typescript
Mainly about the editorship of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

CA/27 Correspondence with Hugo Ibscher
1935-7
27 items, ms and typescript
Hugo Ibscher was the conservator in Berlin who worked on the papyri from the Chester Beatty collection which Charles Allberry used for A Manichaean Psalm Book: Part II (1938)
German

CA/28 Letters from Winifred Keeves, Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Society
1939-40
12 items, typescript
Mainly about the editorship of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology

CA/29 Letters from Wilfred Knox
undated [1939]
3 items, ms and typescript
Incomplete

CA/30 Correspondence with W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart
1935-7
28 items, ms and typescript
W. Kohlhammer published A Manichaean Psalm-Book: Part II (1938)
English and German

CA/31 Letters from Arthur Nock
1936-40
12 items, ms and typescript

CA/32 Note to Enoch Powell
4 Jun 1937
1 item

CA/33 Letter from Hans Heinrich Schaeder
16 Dec 1936
1 item, typescript
German

CA/34 Correspondence with Cecil Warburton
Sep-Oct 1939
8 items, ms and typescript
With letters from Humphrey Gilbert-Carter (2) and notes on galls

CA/35 Miscellaneous poems
undated, 1937
1 bundle

CA/36 Herbert Thompson
Notes on A Manichaean Psalm-Book: Part II (1938)
1937
1 bundle

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