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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 88942/1/1

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1809?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/4

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Starting with 'Latin trial' this exercise book contains distinct but related entries on left and right pages. Pages on the left contain definitions of characters and places in Greek mythology, notes on history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek. Pages on the right are short extracts of pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 35 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/5

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W:H:Talbot')
Scope & Content:
Starting with 'Proper names', the exercise book contains notes with definitions of characters of Greek mythology and history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek on the left pages, and small extracts of printed Greek and Latin verses with written comments in Greek and Latin, as well as trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 43 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/6

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook mainly contains texts in Latin, primarily by Ovid. Some Latin texts carry Greek titles. All texts are dated and are specific exercises Talbot was required to complete (e.g. see the note 'Holiday task, midsummer 1811'). The very first page of the notebook is entitled 'Verses on vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 130 pages of text) and 2 loose sheets

6. Add MS 88942/1/7

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This notebook with rough notes is related to notebook 'Q' (Add MS 88942/1/8). It contains an index in the front cover. It starts 'Latin from itself' and continues with wordlists indicating etymological derivations of Latin, Greek and Egyptian. Talbot also refers to his publication Hermes, or Cla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/9

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838), and includes the passages: 'Was Homer acquainted with the art of writing?'; 'On the names of the ancient Roman Months'; and 'On the origin of the names Vesuvius and Soma'. The notebook was started ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 45 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/10

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook starts with notes 'On the fable of Orpheus and Euridyce - requires that Micalis’ plate should be copied'. Amongst miscellaneous notes on Greek literature and etymology it also contains reflections on the term 'Drama' and other terms related to Greek literature and a short section on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1837?-1838?
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 48 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/11

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Add MS 88942/1/11
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)