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31. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

32. Add MS 88942/1/59

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains miscellaneous notes concerning travels in Europe, drawings of a head in profile, several geometrical figures, notes on Italian etymology, a text in Greek and notes on botany. Front to back (upside-down), the notebook is inscribed 'Lady Feilding Talbot' and contains furthe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Italian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 36 pages of text)

33. Add MS 88942/1/60

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook entitled ﻋﺭﺐ (Arab) starts 'Lillahi al hhamed u al minath' and contains mainly notes in Arabic (in English script with very few Arabic characters) and a few notes in Persian. Back to front (upside-down): notes (vocabulary) on and translation of 'The Garden and the Nightingale' (fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, and Swedish
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 28 pages of text), 17 loose sheets (17 folios, 33 pages of text)

34. Add MS 88942/1/61

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains very few notes on etymology, mainly of Italian words. It is probably from the 1830s when Talbot dedicated a lot of time to etymology.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 5 pages of text)

35. Add MS 88942/1/62

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly notes on the Greek language, such as definition of words and etymology; but also notes on other languages such as Gaelic, Icelandic and German which Talbot relates to Greek. It also includes notes on Latin, some modern European languages and Persian. Talbot mentions a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Ancient, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 42 pages of text)

36. Add MS 88942/1/63

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is used on the first page only. It contains notes in pencil on botany: the headline 'Copied' is followed by a list of mainly Greek words and few single words in various modern European languages.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (66 folios, 1 pages of text)

37. Add MS 88942/1/65

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly references, remarks and addenda for Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (1838 and 1839), and various mythological notes such as two epsitolae criticae with lists of mythological and historical Greek characters/gods. The loose sheets also contain notes with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1838-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 6 pages of text), 12 loose sheets (12 folios, 20 pages of text)

38. Add MS 88942/1/66

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains miscellaneous notes on Greek etymology, notes on Greek mythological characters and drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (especially for a chapter on Patera) and The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis, with many crossed out, edited and corrected sections....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 64 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)

39. Add MS 88942/1/67

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Conundrums, Charades, Riddles')
Scope & Content:
This non-attributed notebook contains 100 questions (entitled 'Conundrums') with corresponding answers which incorporate wordplay. For example: '28. Why is a little negro like a white man? Because he is not at all (a tall) black'; and: '17. Why is a little thief like a Roman Emperor? Because he i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 20 pages of text)

40. Add MS 88942/1/68-86

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Title:
Talbot: 'Rough' Notebooks 1-20
Scope & Content:
A series of 'Rough' notebooks, numbered 1-20 ('Rough 5' is missing).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1866-[1871]
Extent:
19 notebooks