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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/34
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('J')
Scope & Content:: This notebook is probably the continuation of notebook 'I' (Add MS 88942/1/348) and contains etymological notes on possible derivations and etymological connections between English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Talbot also refers to Turkish and Persian and Dutch. In this notebook Ta...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:: 1845-1858
Extent:: 1 notebook (92 folios, 120 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/35
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('K' in pencil, may not be in Talbot's hand)
Scope & Content:: This notebook is possibly the continuation of Notebook 'J' (Add MS 88942/1/34). It might be part of a larger series and contains English, Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish and Dutch etymological notes on words, names and places as well as notes on Assyrian names and places. Talbot refers to ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1847-1848
Extent:: 1 notebook (16 folios, 33 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/41
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The majority of this exercise book comprises Latin translation and grammar exercises (including hymns and poems) with very few relations to Greek or Roman languages from 1811 and 1812 when Talbot was at Harrow. Judging by the different uses of ink and pencil it seems that Talbot kept editing, ma...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 1811-1815?
Extent:: 1 notebook (34 folios, 62 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/42
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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/44
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: Notebook started in Worthing, contains a frontispiece carrying the title ('A. Cantor's new Commercial Memorandum Book') and three pages of printed text as well as some handwritten notes. 'Cantor's' on the frontispiece is crossed out twice and replaced by 'Carter's' in pencil. Front to back: The...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Coptic, Egyptian (Ancient), English, German, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1823-1826
Extent:: 1 notebook (80 folios, 65 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/47
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The notebook starts 'Analogy is the great guiding principle of etymological researches' and contains etymological notes in mainly English, French, Italian, German, Greek, and Persian. Notebook started: 25 Nov 1831.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:: 1831
Extent:: 1 notebook (31 folios, 62 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/51
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('D. P.')
Scope & Content:: Inscribed ‘D. P.’ on front pastedown. Starts: ‘Detached passages Oct 23rd/38.’ The notebook contains few notes on mythology and philology, possibly connected to Hermes and possibly serving as notes for a talk. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 23 Oct 1838.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (22 folios, 7 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/52
Title:: Talbot: Notebook (''ξ'')
Scope & Content:: Starting ''Syriac letter'', this notebook explores etymological relations between Syriac and Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, German. Notebook started: 26 Mar 1842.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Arabic, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac
Date Range:: 1842
Extent:: 4 notebook (86 folios, 5 pages of text)

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