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201. Add MS 88942/1/110

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Add MS 88942/1/110
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (‘Deferred in order to be rewritten’)
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part III of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1873). Many pages have been cut from the notebook. See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870?
Extent:
1 notebook (3 folios, 3 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)

202. Add MS 88942/1/11

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Add MS 88942/1/11
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)

203. Add MS 88942/1/249

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Add MS 88942/1/249
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Statement as to the Title of William Henry Fox Talbot, to [...] Lacock')
Scope & Content:
Title in full: 'Statement as to the Title of William Henry Fox Talbot Esquire, to the Manor, Rectory & Abbey of Lacock, and divers Estates in Wilts; and Narrative shewing the comparative situation of that property on 31st July 1800, and February 1821'. This notebook is a fair copy with a de...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1821
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 32 pages of text)

204. Add MS 88942/1/226

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Add MS 88942/1/226
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Wages Paid')
Scope & Content:
Contains notes on staff wages 1810-1812 at Lacock Abbey. Notebook started: 15 May 1810.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 22 pages of text)

205. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/112-115
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks (Athenaeum Club Vol I A-Vol IV D)
Scope & Content:
It was presumably at the Athenaeum Club, to which Talbot was elected in 1824, that the notebook series Add MS 88942/1/112-115 came into being. The series is not characterised by a clear purpose or specific goal. The contents of the notebooks varies, ranging from transliterations, notes on transla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
4 notebooks

206. Add MS 88942/1/147

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/147
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Octagon of the Tiglath Pileser I')
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/146 with the translation of 'Tiglath Pileser'. See also Add MS 88942/1/148. Notebook started: 20 Feb 1857.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 22 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)

207. Add MS 88942/1/167

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/167
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Legend of Ishtar decending to Hades')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a line by line translation of 'The Legend of Ishtar descending to Hades'. It is probably a draft for a later publication. Notebook started: 14 Mar 1873.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 57 pages of text)

208. Add MS 88942/1/176

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/176
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Creation Tabl[et] / Interlinear 2nd part, Tablet V')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is a first draft of Add MS 88942/1/127. Many pages are cut out. Continuous with Add MS 88942/1/177.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 notebook (2 folios, 4 pages of text)

209. Add MS 88942/1/210

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Add MS 88942/1/210
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Note on the early History of Spectrum Analysis')
Scope & Content:
Draft of an article Talbot published much later, in 1872. Talbot refers to Fraunhofer, Brewster, Newton, and Wollaston. Several references are quoted up to 1842, and reference is made to the 'Manchester meeting' (1842) of the British Association (numbered p. 9).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1842
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 12 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)

210. Add MS 88942/1/39

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/39
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Dialogues of the Dead')
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek mythology. This early notebook contains a short dialogue between Lycurgus and Solon, and another short dialogue between Polycrates and Amasis. Though inscribed with Talbot's name in the front cover, the notebook was probably written by Lady Elisabeth for Talbot's use. Only a fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 10 pages of text)