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131. Add MS 88942/1/130

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Add MS 88942/1/130
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Deluge 3')
Scope & Content:
Draft for a publication including notes on different cuneiform tablets. A continuation of Add MS 88942/1/129.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
c 1876
Extent:
1 notebook (14 folios, 20 pages of text)

132. Add MS 88942/1/132

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Add MS 88942/1/132
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('χ')
Scope & Content:
This notebook refers to Add MS 88942/1/131. It contains discussions of individual words in Assyrian.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
between 1866-1868
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

133. Add MS 88942/1/133

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Add MS 88942/1/133
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Φ')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes and comments on Assyrian. Notebook started: 12 Feb 1867. Above the date, Talbot has written '13 Gt. Stuart St.', an address in Edinburgh where he sometimes resided.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 62 pages of text)

134. Add MS 88942/1/139

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Add MS 88942/1/139
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('V')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/138, and contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language. It carefully discusses the meaning of individual words. Upside down (back to front) are notes headed 'Rough Work'. The inside front cover contains an index of words.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 70 pages of text)

135. Add MS 88942/1/141

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Add MS 88942/1/141
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyrica')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text discussing individual Assyrian words and their meaning. It includes a few notes in Arabic, references to Hebrew and to mythology. The inside back cover lists an index of words. Notebook started: Millburn Tower, [Edinburgh], 10 Nov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1862-[1863]
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 65 pages of text)

136. Add MS 88942/1/142

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Add MS 88942/1/142
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook is possibly a continuation of notebook Add MS 88942/1/141. It contains footnotes and corrections and has an index of words in the back cover. Lacock, 10 Nov 1864.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 63 pages of text)

137. Add MS 88942/1/143

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Add MS 88942/1/143
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Additional Matter')
Scope & Content:
Brief notes on an Assyrian text related to the Bellino Cylinder (British Museum). The final pages appear to be notes for a talk. Altogether, the notebook contains only three pages of text. The notebook is not dated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1865?-1866?
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 5 pages of text)

138. Add MS 88942/1/144

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Add MS 88942/1/144
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bellino')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a late draft of the second translation of the 'Inscription of Bellino' (1860), dated 16 March 1860 on a later page but started earlier. It contains notes on 'Inscription of Michaux'. Notebook started: 22 Oct 1859.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1859-1860
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 41 pages of text)

139. Add MS 88942/1/145

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Add MS 88942/1/145
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Michaux continued')
Scope & Content:
Continuing Add MS 88942/1/144, this notebook contains an improved draft of the second translation of the 'The Inscription of Bellino' (1860), and includes notes for 'Inscription of Michaux'. Notebook started: 14 Apr 1860.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1860
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

140. Add MS 88942/1/146

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Egyptian Archaeology')
Scope & Content:
Front to back: The front part of the notebook contains only three lines on 'Egyptian Archaeology' (1856), referring to the Lotus flower. The back-to-front part (1857) contains an intermediate draft of the famous transcription and translation of the 'Inscription of Tiglath Pileser I', six weeks ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 notebook (71 folios, 70 pages of text)