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.
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.
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.
The notebook consists of a few pages filled with a transcription of a cuneiform text on the right with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. See also Add MS 88942/1/115, Add MS 88942/1/138, and Add MS 88942/1/165.
The notebook consists of notes on cuneiform and transcribed texts, possibly from tablets, on the right page, with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. The text consists of parts of an Iguvinic inscription in Umbrian and Latin. Talbot might have learned about the ...
Talbot: Notebook ('The Legend of Ishtar decending to Hades')
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The notebook contains a line by line translation of 'The Legend of Ishtar descending to Hades'. It is probably a draft for a later publication. Notebook started: 14 Mar 1873.
Talbot: Notebook ('Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused')
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The notebook contains a draft of a translation of a tablet in the British Museum. It also includes two pages of notes at the back of the notebook on the first public announcement of Talbot's photographic experiments (by Michael Faraday, at the Royal Institution, 1839). Notebook started: 3 May 1...
Address book (A-Z) containing an Assyrian word index. This notebook might be Talbot's first systematic notebook on Assyrian. The date of the latest entries might be much later than 1858.