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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/153
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The notebook is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/152, containing notes on Assyrian cuneiform text including words relating to religion. Most of the pages are blank.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and Hebrew
Date Range:: between 1875-1877
Extent:: 1 notebook (32 folios, 8 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/154
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: Begining with the heading 'On the Cypriote inscriptions', the notebook contains partly drafts of a translation from Assyrian into English, and partly notes in Greek and German. Talbot refers to a number of publications on the topic. Notebook started: 5 Dec 1876, Bournemouth.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1876-[1877]
Extent:: 1 notebook (16 folios, 21 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/156
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: Draft translation of an inscription of Esarhaddon from a cylinder in the British Museum. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681 – 669 BC). See also Add MS 88942/1/157-160. Notebook started: 17 Dec 1858.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: 1858-[1859]
Extent:: 1 notebook (39 folios, 45 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/157
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Esarhaddon - A')
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains a draft translation, probably of the later version of Esarhaddon. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681 – 669 BC). See also Add MS 88942/1/158-160.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: between 1875-1877
Extent:: 1 notebook (32 folios, 45 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/158
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Esarhaddon - book 2')
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains a draft translation, probably of the later version of Esarhaddon. It is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681 – 669 BC).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: between 1875-1877
Extent:: 1 notebook (32 folios, 15 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/159
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Inscription of Esarhaddon')
Scope & Content:: This notebook contains what is probably Talbot's final draft of his translation of the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s. For further translation drafts, see Add MS 88942/1/156-158, and Add MS 88942/1/160.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: between 1875-1877
Extent:: 1 notebook (20 folios, 17 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/160
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon')
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains a translation entitled 'The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon' - for an earlier draft, see Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s onwards. For f...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: between 1875-1877
Extent:: 1 notebook (27 folios, 28 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 5 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/161
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Assyrian Miscellanies')
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains notes made from the Daily Telegraph (4 January 1873) on mythology and translations of two Babylonian myths. Notebook started: 16 Jan 1873, Bath.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: 1873-1874
Extent:: 1 notebook (30 folios, 4 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/162
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Assyrian Notes II')
Scope & Content:: Notebook starts 'The god of pestilence' and contains commentaries on texts published by George Smith. Greek fables are compared with Assyrian. Notebook started: 30 Nov 1875.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: 1875
Extent:: 1 notebook (32 folios, 5 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/163
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('T')
Scope & Content:: The notebook (identified as 'T' written in pencil on the inside front cover) contains lexicographical notes on Assyrian words. It is probably the last notebook that Talbot began before his death. Many blank pages. Notebook started: 1 Sep 1877, Lacock.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and English
Date Range:: 1877
Extent:: 1 notebook (20 folios, 3 pages of text)

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