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151. Add MS 88942/1/236

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Add MS 88942/1/236
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Dress 1 June 1815, 31 May 1816')
Scope & Content:
Records expenditure on clothes etc for different Talbot family members, including Henry Talbot and Lady Elisabeth, from 1 June 1815 to 28 May 1816. Inscribed 'Lady Catherine Tilneylay (?)' on inside front cover. Notebook started: 1 Jun 1815.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1815-1816
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 34 pages of text)

152. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

153. Add MS 88942/1/62

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly notes on the Greek language, such as definition of words and etymology; but also notes on other languages such as Gaelic, Icelandic and German which Talbot relates to Greek. It also includes notes on Latin, some modern European languages and Persian. Talbot mentions a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Ancient, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 42 pages of text)

154. Add MS 88942/1/154

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Begining with the heading 'On the Cypriote inscriptions', the notebook contains partly drafts of a translation from Assyrian into English, and partly notes in Greek and German. Talbot refers to a number of publications on the topic. Notebook started: 5 Dec 1876, Bournemouth.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1876-[1877]
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 21 pages of text)

155. Add MS 88942/1/42

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Metres')
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes a short introduction to metre in Greek poetry, a 'Table of feet as metrically used by the Roman Poets' and 'The nine first odes of Horace according to the Greek Metrical system'. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 6 May 1811.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 8 pages of text)

156. 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)

157. 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)

158. Add MS 88942/1/165

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('U.145')
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 46 pages of text)

159. Add MS 88942/1/273

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Address Book)
Scope & Content:
This address book contains chronological entries of people, mostly with their addresses (street names). It starts in Lady Elisabeth's hand and continues in the handwriting of another person. The address book is divided by year.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1842
Extent:
1 notebook (77 folios, 82 pages of text)

160. Add MS 88942/1/274

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Address Book)
Scope & Content:
This address book contains mostly alphabetical and chronological entries of people, mostly with their addresses (street names) from 1839-1841. Some names are crossed out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1841
Extent:
1 notebook (60 folios, 82 pages of text)