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1. 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

2. Add MS 88942/1/111

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Add MS 88942/1/111
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains material that appears to relate to an uncompleted continuation of Talbot's 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868-1873). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1872-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 8 pages of text)

3. 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)

4. Add MS 88942/1/127

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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)

5. Add MS 88942/1/166

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains transcription and translation of Babylonian (in two columns), probably a draft for an article. Most pages are blank. Notebook started: 16 Feb 1861, Lacock.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
1861
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 5 pages of text)

6. 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

7. Add MS 88942/1/87

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Add MS 88942/1/87
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts 'Sargina sar dannu sar Agani anaku' and contains a line by line transcriptions of the named text. It also contains a draft of 'A Fragment of Ancient Assyrian Mythology' (1872). It includes 6 separate sheets of notes which contain draft glossary entries and random notes on deci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1871?-1872?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 37 pages of text), 6 loose sheets (6 folios, 8 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/108

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Add MS 88942/1/108
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes for Part I of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 8 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/121

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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)

10. 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)