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1. Add MS 88942

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Add MS 88942
Title:
The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:
The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1732-1952
Extent:

849 files

2. Add MS 88942/1

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Add MS 88942/1
Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

3. Add MS 88942/1/13-25

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Add MS 88942/1/13-25
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S'-'Z'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1836-1839
Extent:
13 notebooks

4. Add MS 88942/1/19

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Add MS 88942/1/19
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('U')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is part of a larger series and continues from Add MS 88942/1/18. It contains etymological notes of Latin, Etruscan and Greek, and description of Greek gods and mythological characters. Notebook started: 24 Oct 1837.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 notebook (85 folios, 173 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/19-20

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/19-20
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'U' and 'U.2'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
2 notebooks

6. Add MS 88942/1/21

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Add MS 88942/1/21
Title:
Talbot: Notebook 'V'
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of an incomplete series and follows Add MS 88942/1/20. It includes etymological notes on English, Greek, Latin, Welsh and Hebrew. Notebook started: 7 Aug 1838.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (70 folios, 140 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/26

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Add MS 88942/1/26
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
This is the first in a large, incomplete series of notebooks, which served as preparations for Talbot's English Etymologies. The notes in this series are more organized than in previous etymological notebooks; single words are underlined that also appear in the publication. The notebook starts ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 notebook (57 folios, 114 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/26-37

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Add MS 88942/1/26-37
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'M'
Scope & Content:
Notebook 'I' from this sequence (which only came to light at a later stage in the cataloguing of Talbot's papers) is Add MS 88942/1/348.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1840-1877
Extent:
12 notebooks

9. Add MS 88942/1/29

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Add MS 88942/1/29
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/28. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English etymology but also notes on Greek, Latin, French and Italian words and names. It includes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
2 notebook (55 folios, 111 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/44

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Add MS 88942/1/44
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook started in Worthing, contains a frontispiece carrying the title ('A. Cantor's new Commercial Memorandum Book') and three pages of printed text as well as some handwritten notes. 'Cantor's' on the frontispiece is crossed out twice and replaced by 'Carter's' in pencil. Front to back: The...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Coptic, Egyptian (Ancient), English, German, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1823-1826
Extent:
1 notebook (80 folios, 65 pages of text)