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032-002188938 Language Greek, Ancient Subject Classical studies

1. Add MS 88942/1

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Add MS 88942/1
Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

2. Add MS 88942/1/1

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Add MS 88942/1/1
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1809?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/6

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook mainly contains texts in Latin, primarily by Ovid. Some Latin texts carry Greek titles. All texts are dated and are specific exercises Talbot was required to complete (e.g. see the note 'Holiday task, midsummer 1811'). The very first page of the notebook is entitled 'Verses on vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 130 pages of text) and 2 loose sheets

4. Add MS 88942/1/65

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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)

5. Add MS 88942/1/66

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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)

6. Add MS 88942/1/12

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Add MS 88942/1/12
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook served as a draft for sections of Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838). It also includes long drafts for 'The Winged Deities of Etruria' and 'Mantus, the Etruscan Pluto'. Many sections are crossed out and corrected. See also Add MS 88942/1/10. Notebook star...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 15 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/54

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Add MS 88942/1/54
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Possibly a draft for The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
[1838]-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 15 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/2

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Add MS 88942/1/2
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Book')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on the Greek alphabet ('Litera apud Graecos sunt viginti quatuor') and on Greek grammar ('Articulus', 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declinatio', 'Tertia Declinatio', 'Quarta Declinatio', 'Quinta Declinatio' / 'Nominum Simplicum' and 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Oct [1809]
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 27 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/42

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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)

10. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

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