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11. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

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Add MS 88942/1/112-115
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks (Athenaeum Club Vol I A-Vol IV D)
Scope & Content:
It was presumably at the Athenaeum Club, to which Talbot was elected in 1824, that the notebook series Add MS 88942/1/112-115 came into being. The series is not characterised by a clear purpose or specific goal. The contents of the notebooks varies, ranging from transliterations, notes on transla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
4 notebooks

12. Add MS 88942/1/116-119

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Add MS 88942/1/116-119
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
Notebooks 116-119 contain notes and translations of further cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. They include shorter notes on other tablets in the British Museum, corrections of Talbot's previous publications, and notes on etymology and religious beliefs. Each no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[1855]-[1870]
Extent:
4 notebooks

13. Add MS 88942/1/121

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Add MS 88942/1/121
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins with the heading: 'The fight betwn Bel & the Dragon'. It contains a draft introduction and translation notes. There are three Talbot notebooks related to Bel and the Dragon, from the extended book of Daniel, now known to be part of the Babylonian epic of creation (see al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (13 folios, 18 pages of text)

14. Add MS 88942/1/122

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Add MS 88942/1/122
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bel & Dragon')
Scope & Content:
Notes for 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877). The notebook probably continues Add MS 88942/1/121 and continues with Add MS 88942/1/123. Notebook started: 11 Jun [1876].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 3 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

15. Add MS 88942/1/123

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Add MS 88942/1/123
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notes and Observations')
Scope & Content:
Line by line notes and commentary on 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877), with notes on 'Column I' at the front of the book and notes on 'Col II' at the back of the notebook. With three loose sheets of related notes, dated 19 and 20 June 1876 (Lacock Abbey). The notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 15 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)

16. Add MS 88942/1/125

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Add MS 88942/1/125
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Further notes on Delitzsch, Assyrische Lesestücke (Leipzig, 1876). Relates to Add MS 88942/1/124.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 51 pages of text)

17. Add MS 88942/1/126

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Add MS 88942/1/126
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notes on Tablets of Creation Series')
Scope & Content:
Notebook with many pages cut from the front. On the front cover, Talbot has written 'from Delitzsch, Notes on tablets of Creation Series', with 'Birs. N' (struck-through) written beneath. Talbot evidently cut out the pages with the notes of 'Birs. N.' (1860s) and then re-used the notebook for hi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876?-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (8 folios, 10 pages of text)

18. Add MS 88942/1/127

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Add MS 88942/1/127
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains the introductory remarks to a talk, probably read to the Society of Biblical Archaeology, headed: 'On the Creation tablets, and The first institution of the Sabbath, by HF Talbot, F.R.S. Read 4 January 1876'. It includes draft translation notes. Many pages have been cut f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (14 folios, 6 pages of text)

19. Add MS 88942/1/128-130

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Add MS 88942/1/128-130
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('Deluge' 1-3)
Scope & Content:
Three notebooks that relate to Talbot, 'Commentary on the Deluge Tablet', Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, 4 (1875).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
[1875]-[1876]
Extent:
3 notebooks

20. Add MS 88942/1/131

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Add MS 88942/1/131
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is in the form of an A-Z address book, utilised as a convenient means of recording an A-Z Assyrian lexicon. It includes references to publications and cross-references to other Talbot notebooks, e.g. Add MS 88942/1/133 "Φ". Lacock, 15 September 1868.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
15 Sep 1868-before 1877
Extent:
1 notebook (58 folios, 45 pages of text)