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181. Add MS 88942/1/174

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Add MS 88942/1/174
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Assyrian Notes No. 1')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft of 'Assyrian Notes - No. 1' (1874). With two loose sheets of related notes.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1873?-1874?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 27 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 3 pages of text)

182. Add MS 88942/1/205

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Add MS 88942/1/205
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On the Theory of Parallel Lines')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains an essay on Euclidian geometry entitled 'On the Theory of Parallel Lines'. It is probably related to Add MS 88942/1/204. The notebook includes several small loose sheets (now foliated) showing various geometric figures based on the triangle.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (i + ii + 26 ff.)

183. Add MS 88942/1/7

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Add MS 88942/1/7
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)

184. Add MS 88942/1/5

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Add MS 88942/1/5
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)

185. Add MS 88942/1/10

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Add MS 88942/1/10
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)

186. Add MS 88942/1/122

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Add MS 88942/1/122
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bel & Dragon')
Scope & Content:
Notes for 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877). The notebook probably continues Add MS 88942/1/121 and continues with Add MS 88942/1/123. Notebook started: 11 Jun [1876].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 3 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

187. Add MS 88942/1/123

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Add MS 88942/1/123
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notes and Observations')
Scope & Content:
Line by line notes and commentary on 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877), with notes on 'Column I' at the front of the book and notes on 'Col II' at the back of the notebook. With three loose sheets of related notes, dated 19 and 20 June 1876 (Lacock Abbey). The notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 15 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)

188. Add MS 88942/1/238

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Add MS 88942/1/238
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Visiting Book 1816')
Scope & Content:
The visiting book, partly by Lady Elisabeth, partly by someone else, contains a list of names and addresses as well as a 'List for ball 1825' amongst other guest lists. Back to front (upside down): starts also "Visiting book 1816" but only four pages follow of which two are crossed out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816-1825
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 90 pages of text)

189. Add MS 88942/1/311

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Add MS 88942/1/311
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances')
Scope & Content:
Divided into two sections. 1. 'Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances'. An assembled bibliographical pedigree, combining partly printed descriptions of books and manuscripts (cut and adhered to the notebook folios) and partly copied passages...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (unbound)

190. Add MS 88942/1/160

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Add MS 88942/1/160
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a translation entitled 'The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon' - for an earlier draft, see Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s onwards. For f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (27 folios, 28 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 5 pages of text)