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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/65
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains mainly references, remarks and addenda for Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (1838 and 1839), and various mythological notes such as two epsitolae criticae with lists of mythological and historical Greek characters/gods. The loose sheets also contain notes with ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: c 1838-1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (21 folios, 6 pages of text), 12 loose sheets (12 folios, 20 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/66
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains miscellaneous notes on Greek etymology, notes on Greek mythological characters and drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (especially for a chapter on Patera) and The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis, with many crossed out, edited and corrected sections....
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1838
Extent:: 1 notebook (38 folios, 64 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/106
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and history, starting ‘The Kings of Assyria’. The notebook does not contain a continuous text but various notes on different words. Talbot compares Assyrian with Hebrew and Greek. He seems to have used the notebook for a few years (at least ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1858-[1862]
Extent:: 1 notebook (138 folios, 277 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/107
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language with some biblical references. There are no references to a specific text. It includes loose notes for Talbot's Assyrian Glossary as well as some general notes in the back. Pages are numbered in pencil. See also the not...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:: Late 1860s
Extent:: 1 notebook (40 folios, 45 pages of text), 10 loose pages of text (10 folios, 15 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/132
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('χ')
Scope & Content:: This notebook refers to Add MS 88942/1/131. It contains discussions of individual words in Assyrian.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:: between 1866-1868
Extent:: 1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/135
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol I')
Scope & Content:: The notebook concerns 'Assyrian & Babylonian inscriptions' and includes notes on Sir Henry Rawlinson's work on various tablets and objects in the British Museum. Talbot attempts to translate by looking at individual words, making comparisons with Latin and Greek, by comparing his ideas to th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:: 29 Jun 1853
Extent:: 1 notebook (39 folios, 48 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/136
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol II')
Scope & Content:: The notebook considers 'signs whose value is required' and testifies to Talbot's interest in cuneiform based on his knowledge of ancient Persian. He studies the names of Greek gods and sign variation, makes cross linguistic comparisons and looks at grammatical forms. Talbot uses Botta's, Hinck's...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian, Old
Date Range:: 1853
Extent:: 1 notebook (62 folios, 127 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/138
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('IV')
Scope & Content:: The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language, and continues Add MS 88942/137. The notebook begins: ‘[cuneiform] is a sign which has various values…’. It attempts decipherment and contains notes on lexicography and biblical history. Talbot translates whole lines ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 notebook (132 folios, 264 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/142
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: This notebook is possibly a continuation of notebook Add MS 88942/1/141. It contains footnotes and corrections and has an index of words in the back cover. Lacock, 10 Nov 1864.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:: 1864
Extent:: 1 notebook (31 folios, 63 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/154
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: Begining with the heading 'On the Cypriote inscriptions', the notebook contains partly drafts of a translation from Assyrian into English, and partly notes in Greek and German. Talbot refers to a number of publications on the topic. Notebook started: 5 Dec 1876, Bournemouth.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:: 1876-[1877]
Extent:: 1 notebook (16 folios, 21 pages of text)

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