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31. Add MS 88942/1/213

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/213
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains elementary geometry and was started in the period 1864/65 when Talbot purchased a house in 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. It contains a draft for Talbot's 'Note on Confocal Conic Sections' (1865), and continues Add MS 88942/1/212. Talbot discussed the same subject with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864]-1865
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 23 pages of text)

32. Add MS 88942/1/214

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Add MS 88942/1/214
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on algebra, equations of degree 3 and 5, solutions of a cubic, and refers back to Talbot's studies of the 1830s. The inside front cover records that it was commenced at 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, and was therefore begun after 1864/65 when Talbot purchased thi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 8 pages of text)

33. Add MS 88942/1/215

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Add MS 88942/1/215
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Elements of Plane Geometry extracted from the works of Playfair, Le Gendre, and others')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly notes on mathematics and begins with copied extracts entitled 'The Elements of Plane Geometry'. It also includes a brief note dated 'April 18th 1817' on the conjunction of Mars and Saturn. With many blank pages, and a few pages cut out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816?-1817
Extent:
1 notebook (74 folios, 22 pages of text)

34. Add MS 88942/1/216

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Add MS 88942/1/216
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This mathematical exercise notebook contains algebraic equations and a few notes on analytical geometry, and may relate to Add MS 88942/1/198.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 46 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 10 pages of text)

35. Add MS 88942/1/217

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Add MS 88942/1/217
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A notebook containing rough calculations, mainly algebraic equations of third and fifth degree, some analyses (integrals, differentials and trigonometric functions) as well as many auxiliary calculations. It is related to Add MS 88942/1/197.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Late 1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (36 folios, 7 pages of text)

36. Add MS 88942/1/218

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Add MS 88942/1/218
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This mathematical notebook contains definitions and theorems, proofs, some analytical geometry (possibly some extracts from a book). On the final folio (f. 32), Talbot has written: 'End of Part 2 of Researches'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (i + 32 ff.)

37. Add MS 88942/1/239

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/239
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A printed diary ('The Student's Journal'), inscribed (inside front flyleaf) 'W.H.F. Talbot A.D. 1816'. Contains miscellaneous notes, such as the names of places with latitudes/longitudes, co-ordinates of locations in the north of England, a 'Grecian Chronology', and a list of 'Illustrious Greeks'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 23 pages of text), with 5 loose sheets

38. EAP760/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP760/1
Title:
The Tīrthalāl Naghabhanī Archive (TLA)
Scope & Content:
This collection contains the following 6 series: EAP760/1/1: Candannāth Papers, 1867-1918 EAP760/1/2: Tīrthalāl Collection (TLC) [The Family and the Regime], 1763-1968 EAP760/1/3: Financial Transactions, 1860-1983 EAP760/1/4: Photographs, 1989-1996 EAP760/1/5: Family Collection (TLF), 1125-1996 ...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, Newari, Newari, Classical, Not applicable, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1125-2006
Extent:
11039 TIFF images

39. EAP760/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP760/1/5
Title:
The Tīrthalāl Naghabhanī Archive (TLA): Family Collection (TLF)
Scope & Content:
TLF includes documents mainly related to religion, rituals, Rajbhandari clan documents related to family deity, guthi, genealogy trees, and others that Tīrthalāl inherited from his family. Custodial history: From Tīrthalāl's Family Collection (TLF) to Tīrthalāl's Personal Collection (TLP). The...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, Newari, Newari, Classical, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
1125-1996
Extent:
2111 TIFF images

40. EAP880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1
Title:
Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:
While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:
1807-1998
Extent:
89249 TIFF images

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