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41. 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)

42. Add MS 88942/1/88-105

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Add MS 88942/1/88-105
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'S'
Scope & Content:
A series of 18 notebooks, lettered 'A'-'S', relating to Talbot, 'Contributions Towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Soiciety (1868-73). The 18 notebooks are a continuation of the series Add MS 88942/1/68-86. Other notebooks with comparable content (includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1871-1877
Extent:
18 notebooks

43. Add MS 88942/1/106

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Add MS 88942/1/106
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and history, starting ‘The Kings of Assyria’. The notebook does not contain a continuous text but various notes on different words. Talbot compares Assyrian with Hebrew and Greek. He seems to have used the notebook for a few years (at least ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1858-[1862]
Extent:
1 notebook (138 folios, 277 pages of text)

44. 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)

45. Add MS 88942/1/109

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Add MS 88942/1/109
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Glossary continued')
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part II of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1870). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 15 pages of text)

46. Add MS 88942/1/110

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Add MS 88942/1/110
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (‘Deferred in order to be rewritten’)
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part III of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1873). Many pages have been cut from the notebook. See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870?
Extent:
1 notebook (3 folios, 3 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)

47. 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)

48. 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

49. 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

50. Add MS 88942/1/120

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Add MS 88942/1/120
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Talbot makes references to religious beliefs, and possibly includes extracts from 'Brugsch Geographische Inschriften Altäegyptischer Denkmäler vol. 2' (1865) which he mentions on the first page. The notebook might also be a script of a talk on Egyptian history and geography. The loose notes are...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
between 1864-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 6 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 3 pages of text)