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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 88942/1/26-37

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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

3. Add MS 88942/1/34

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Add MS 88942/1/34
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('J')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is probably the continuation of notebook 'I' (Add MS 88942/1/348) and contains etymological notes on possible derivations and etymological connections between English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Talbot also refers to Turkish and Persian and Dutch. In this notebook Ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1845-1858
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 120 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/35

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Add MS 88942/1/35
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('K' in pencil, may not be in Talbot's hand)
Scope & Content:
This notebook is possibly the continuation of Notebook 'J' (Add MS 88942/1/34). It might be part of a larger series and contains English, Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish and Dutch etymological notes on words, names and places as well as notes on Assyrian names and places. Talbot refers to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1847-1848
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 33 pages of text)