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161. Add MS 88942/1/283

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Add MS 88942/1/283
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Address Book)
Scope & Content:
Address book, written in chronological order in three periods: 1844-August 1844, April 1845-July 1845, and March 1846. The book starts in Lady Elisabeth's hand and is continued in another hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1846
Extent:
1 notebook (82 folios, 118 pages of text)

162. Add MS 88942/1/230

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Add MS 88942/1/230
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Journeys 1 Dec 1813')
Scope & Content:
The notebook lists expenditure related to European travel, noting various cities. Notebook started: 1 Dec 1813.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1825
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 19 ff.)

163. Add MS 88942/1/211

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Add MS 88942/1/211
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on geometry entitled ‘On some properties of conic sections’. It is possibly a very first draft for a publication (see also Add MS 88942/1/213). Four pages dated 'March 3 [18]66' are headed 'Commencement of a proposed new paper'. At the back of the notebook (upside-d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (50 folios, 70 pages of text)

164. Add MS 88942/1/213

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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)

165. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Add MS 88942/1/8
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)

166. 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)

167. Add MS 88942/1/279

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Add MS 88942/1/279
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('1841')
Scope & Content:
Contains an alphabetical list of names, some crossed out. '1841' is written on the front cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 23 pages of text)

168. Add MS 88942/1/9

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Add MS 88942/1/9
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)

169. Add MS 88942/1/13-25

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Add MS 88942/1/13-25
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S'-'Z'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1836-1839
Extent:
13 notebooks

170. Add MS 88942/1/157

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Add MS 88942/1/157
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Esarhaddon - A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft translation, probably of the later version of Esarhaddon. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681 – 669 BC). See also Add MS 88942/1/158-160.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 45 pages of text)