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351. Add MS 88942/1/96

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Add MS 88942/1/96
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Letter I, J')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains material relating to Talbot, 'Contributions Towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language', and is the ninth in a series of 18 notebooks ('A'-'S') on this subject (Add MS 88942/1/88-105). Notebook started: 29 Jul 1872.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1872
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 37 pages of text)

352. Add MS 88942/1/128

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Add MS 88942/1/128
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Deluge I: Nabonidus, Nakshi Rustam')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on three different cuneiform tablets. Talbot refers to '4 R 27' - see Rawlinson, The Cuneiform Inscriptions of Western Asia (1875). Reading the notebook back to front, there is a translation of Nakshi Rustam.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1875?-1876?
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 29 pages of text)

353. Add MS 88942/1/112

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Add MS 88942/1/112
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol I A')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains draft translations of cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. Talbot transliterates Assyrian into English script and copies the signs. In addition to the translations, there are further notes on the right hand page as well as more notes and co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 48 pages of text)

354. Add MS 88942/1/21

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Add MS 88942/1/21
Title:
Talbot: Notebook 'V'
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of an incomplete series and follows Add MS 88942/1/20. It includes etymological notes on English, Greek, Latin, Welsh and Hebrew. Notebook started: 7 Aug 1838.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (70 folios, 140 pages of text)

355. Add MS 88942/1/29

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Add MS 88942/1/29
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/28. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English etymology but also notes on Greek, Latin, French and Italian words and names. It includes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
2 notebook (55 folios, 111 pages of text)

356. Add MS 88942/1/36

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Add MS 88942/1/36
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('L')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is part of a larger series and probably continues Notebook 'K' (Add MS 88942/1/35). Talbot starts with thoughts about Greek mythology, but then moves on to the etymology of words, names and places, mainly in English and Greek, but also in other languages, mainly German, later also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1848-1852
Extent:
1 notebook (100 folios, 197 pages of text)

357. Add MS 88942/1/13-17

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Add MS 88942/1/13-17
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S.1'-'S.5'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1836-1837
Extent:
5 notebooks

358. Add MS 88942/1/365

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Add MS 88942/1/365
Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (scientific research and experiment)
Scope & Content:
‘Proposed method of multiplying copies of M. S. S.’ (19 December, 1847). Also includes notes on an 'Electrical Machine'. NTA: 32831. Note, (January, 1848). Research notes. NTA: 32836. ‘To compare different intensities of the same colour.’ (undated). NTA: 36806. ‘Foucault’s Gyroscope’ (undated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1871
Extent:
1 folder

359. Add MS 88942/1/37

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Add MS 88942/1/37
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is probably the last part of a larger series on etymological notes and probably continues notebook 'L' (Add MS 88942/1/36). If this is the case then Talbot has returned to the series after a break of seven years. The notebook contains notes on languages and etymology. It includes d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (114 folios, 75 pages of text)

360. Add MS 88942/1/113

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Add MS 88942/1/113
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol II B')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian Cuneiform text and Greek. It includes a decipherment of an unpublished text (possibly a drawing) by Layard. On the final page, Talbot has noted 'Contents of this vol'. Notebook started: 21 May 1855 (Athenaeum Club).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)